Alx 🐈#Dartington Trust, once a global reference point for sustainable education and progressive arts, is now abandoning any of that values. They abruptly closed the Schumacher College leaving both staff and students stranded (after they already paid their fees), and now are selling away the Forest Garden, a pioneering 31-yrs-old agroforesty project. For context, it might be worth to know that few months ago, the trust opened a high tech shiny gym
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#environment #ClimateDiary #ecology #Southwest #Devon #UK #agroforestry
Pauline von Hellermann@alx So awful, so sad. Thank you for sharing here.
@pvonhellermannn It is, indeed. You're welcome.
The Inquisitive Biologist@alx Sounds like it was sort of a false alarm (?), or are they just presenting it as such?
https://www.dartington.org/forest-garden-update/
https://www.dartington.org/forest-garden-update/
@inqbiol nop, they just responded to the statement https://www.change.org/p/stop-the-destruction-of-the-world-renowned-dartington-forest-garden/u/33371699
Latest Statement from ART on the future of Dartington Forest Garden
Statement from ART on the Forest Garden at Dartington This afternoon our landlords have released a public statement (https://www.dartington.org/forest-garden-update/ which contain a number of misleading statements which we feel we have to correct. “We have had constructive and productive discussions with Martin over the past week.” No, we had one meeting on Weds 19th March when positive noises wer
@alx Very interesting, poor attempt at saving face...