Join our exclusive Green Spaces Community! Access our Love School Community PLUS our private group space filled with content focused around naturally growing food, permaculutre, nature alignment & becoming more self sufficient. As well as supporting your own development you will be part of a community of people growing & greening our environment together.
This community membership directly supports the land based work we do at our Green Spaces projects!
Support the development of our land spaces with a regular subscription to our community.
Get exclusive invites to join our sessions, workshops, live online & in person events.
Get updates about our real-world growing projects based around Consett, County Durham in the North East England.
All our projects are created & maintained using natural, organic methods with designs guided by Permaculture methods, ethics & principles.
Care for the environment.
Support community based learning initives.
Be part of a group practicing conscious, grounded ways of living.
This community, together with our online course fund the land based work we do transforming unused land in our local environment.
In a bid to become completely self sufficent our land based spaces need your support!
Members are invited to use & enjoy our spaces, offer their financial support or learn with us while online customers benefit from at home courses to support their food growing & self sufficency journey.
If you love what we do & want to learn at home or join us in person explore...
Green Spaces Connections
Browse our courses or live workshops & events!
We host weekly sessions in our gardens as well as special events in person & online.
Learn skills in growing food & self sufficiency.
Make connections as part of a like minded community.
Align with nature & more natural ways of being & living.
Our Membership can suggest events for us to host either online or in our garden spaces. Members benefit from online event access through live stream or from early bird invitations to join us in person! Current suggested events in Autumn/Winter 2022-2023 are:
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Benefits of Sessions
Learn skills in organic growing
Gain hands on experience in the garden.
Move your body & get fitter.
Improve mental health and practice mindfulness.
Take some organic produce (food or seeds) home.
Make friends and socialise.
About Our Spaces...
Blackhill Club Community Garden
Read about our first & most established land based project.
Blackhill Cub Community Garden was established in 2016. Now in the 7th year of its 10 year design development we focus our sessions around growing food, herbs & creating communal spaces.
This space has established, accessible spaces we use to host sessions & share knowledge or practical skills.
In this space we use all natural, organic methods based upon Permaculture principles & ethics.
We create our own compost & organic feeds on site.
We grow & dry all our own edible & medicinal herbs.
We collect, save & propgate from many of our own seed varities.
Designed by Love School host Terri Lee-Shield the space was developed by members of the community & previosuly connected with The ALT Group.
The land space is connected with Blackhill Club as we use the unused land surrounding the club building.
The site boasts:
A 20ftx10ft Poly Tunnel
A large decking area & bar
Several outdoor seating areas
Indoor access to our office space, toliet & kitchen
Now part of Love School Green Spaces we plan to dedicate this space to active learning around:
Practical growing techniques for people keen to learn self-suffiency skills for their own purposes.
Hosting skills & creating community or group events.
Naturally growing fruits, vegetables, herbs and flowers.
Compost and natural feeds.
Seed saving and storing.
Design, landscaping, building and creation.
No Dig growing methods.
About Our Spaces...
Fanny Bush Forest Garden
Read about our latest & most ambitious land based project!
Fanny Bush Forest Garden was established in 2021. Based in Chopwell Tyne & Wear this project is in it's second year of its 10 year design development.
This project is designed to replicate a small self build homestead for people interested in learning about small scale, off-grid living & long term land based production tehniques.
We focus our sessions around building functional spaces by hand. The land design is based on planting for long term gain of perrennial plants, herbs & trees. As we develop we plan to introduce a growing area & raise birds & bees on the land for food production.
Love School host Terri Lee-Shield has claimed this unused, community land that was previously dedicated for allotments. The local council ended it's use for growing purposes leaving the space abandoned and left to become overgrown with brambles & weeds.
The design here focuses on transforming the land using no-dig methods with a slow but structured method, focusing on long-term growing techniques to create a diverse & productive space.
The space will be used as a disconnected short term hosting space, for community gatherings during significant events & for sharing any surplus produce with the local community.
You can read about the project start in the private blog below.
To follow the progress & support these spaces join us at Love School Green Spaces Community!
Follow our Progress!
Support the development of our spaces & learn with
Green Spaces Courses
Focused around natural food production & achievable self sufficient living.
Our Green Spaces Courses are sold to fund our real world community growing projects! Members of the Green Spaces Community are invited to join us as we develop our knowledge and anyone can access the courses we offer online! This is our way of becomming self sufficient & raise funds for own growing spaces... with the support of anyone seeking to benefit from the wisdom we have learned in these spaces.
All our Green Spaces courses are designed to be simple & easy to follow. They are based on our collective experience as we develop our land projects. Sharing the practical skills, knowledge & experience we have gained through our experiments with natural growing techniques.
We also explore methods we used to embody and align with our Permaculture ethics as we adapt to become more self sufficient & environmentally aware.
With a focus around easy, practical & achieveable ways you can adapt at home or work. Back to Basics explores all it means to move away from a convenient, consumer based lifestyle reliant upon mass production or unconscious consumption. Each course develops as we do & we are always adding to these banks of knowledge & experience. Buy your access & enjoy the benefit of any additional content as the course grows!
