Rodmell Food Forest

Growing a resilient and abundant Food Forest in the South Downs

We are a small community, growing a resilient and abundant Food Forest on the side of the Ouse valley at Rodmell, East Sussex, UK.

Wilderness Wednesday with Lewes New School

Here at the Forest we’ve been lucky enough to join up with Lewes New School (LNS) and host six exceptionally enthusiastic and vibrant young kids every Wednesday for 2 hours. We’ve been on a journey together since early Spring, where together, we discover the wonders of diversity, the treasures Nature presents; and observed the patterns […]

Our Design Story

Hi there, I’m Peter Cow, and I was the chief Permaculture designer for the Rodmell Food Forest. If you want to hear more about the story of the design and development of this innovative forest, you’re in the right place. I got involved in the Rodmell Food Forest after a phone call from Adam, asking […]

A Long Way Back to Spring

As a crimson fire crackles and hums in the stove, glistening with warmth as it toasts the cabin, the winds roar and cascade through the Sussex Downs; tumbling through the hedgerows and shrubs, arriving rugged at our doorsteps here in the Rodmell Food Forest. Winter has arrived. Or at the very least, graced us with it’s first enchanting spell […]

Welcome to Rodmell Food Forest

We are growing an resiliently abundant Food Forest on the side of the Ouse valley at Rodmell, East Sussex, using Permaculture Design and Biodynamic and Permaculture landscape techniques to create a diverse, robust, edible and otherwise useful landscape that nourishes and delights.

It is an important action to grow a lot more food locally, in efficient and wildlife enhancing ways.

Volunteering Opportunities

Would you like to spend between 1 – 6 months with us and learn about organic gardening with permaculture design principles?

We welcome volunteers from March until November, most years.

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