tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-74533670354807887422025-06-11T17:45:50.432-07:00A journal of low impact camping from our sustainable eco campsite in North Cornwall. Tips, tricks and reviews on how to make green camping comfortable and fun. We're trying out ways of cooking outdoors, solar powered charging, building with natural materials and much more. Then put all of our discoveries on here so that people can learn from our mistakes.Cerenety eco campinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05973276952093823821noreply@blogger.comBlogger25125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7453367035480788742.post-70612336630782460642016-06-21T11:35:00.001-07:002016-06-21T11:35:44.926-07:00

I'm delighted to say that we have hundreds of campers who appreciate our site but a few visitors  have missed the point of our project, Our attempt at being as Eco as possible is sometimes misunderstood.  In the following blogs I will explain a little of the work involved to maintain our Eco campsite. I have separated my blog into sections, starting with  the most common

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COMMUNITY - By Kirsten Nance What is it? Why does it matter? Who is it composed of? All of the aforementioned questions are ones which I have forever struggled to answer.  Growing up in a small town similar to Bude, my original idea of community was: a group of people one is surrounded by that is determined by birthplace. However, the dictionary defines a community as a "social,&

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Hello Cerenety campers and blog readers. I’m Stu and I’ve been a volunteer at Cerenety for 6 months now. Mostly I’ve been helping in the house. As a keen carpenter I’m always looking for new things to build and make, and learning new skills along the way.   After lots of talk about donkeys (and Ben whingeing for weeks), Celli arranged a trip to the 

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Really and truly I shouldn't be writing the blog on our wonderful clay pizza oven. It was dreamt up, designed, created, built, wept over, laughed about and ultimately completed by our team of wonderful volunteers. I have however, benefited from its use and so I feel qualified to write this blog now that most of the participants have moved on. So... where to start? Perhaps at the very

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Ingredients30 chillis5 bell peppers6 onions6 tomatoesChives6 sun dried tomatoesBasil2 bulbs garlicSun dried tomato oilGingerLime juice and flesh one limeLime zestTomato pure70g dark chocolateThank you Patrick x

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Being first time gardeners, we have had quite a lot to learn as of late. Being newly responsible for the gardening last winter, we started preparing the patch for the coming season. After much googling, asking questions, discussions and numerous cups of tea, we finally came up with a plan methodically scribbled on the back of a brown envelope.  So we got to it, removing all

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Part of the animal menagerie here at Cerenety includes five horses and ponies of all shapes and sizes. First of all there is Nana, a miniature shetland pony. She is very cute and cuddley and possibly the tiniest pony you will ever come across. She's very inquisitive and often tries to get involved when I'm working with the horses in the field, although this isn't always very helpful!

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 Its Really Got My Goat's Cheese A long, long time ago, I can still remember how I got my goats together. One was called Willy the Billy and the other called Gertie. After a few shenanigans, one boy kid and a new milk stand later, we were ready to start milking.   Gertie is a treasure to milk. She loves her daily routine and gladly runs down to the milking stand

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So, how do you get a group of volunteers with no form of transport from Cerenety into the rugged wilderness of Dartmoor? Well actually it isn't that difficult. After a little planning and preparation we simply hopped on the X9 bus towards Exeter with the aim to disembark at Crockernwell. It was to be a 20 minute walk from Crockernwell to the start of our Dartmoor ramble. Once on the

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Not known as the most tasty of garden treats, the Jerusalem artichoke does, however grow prolifically. From only plants, we produced over 20 kilos of artichokes. Needless to say, this was a little shocking... especially for those designated to eat them. So... the first thing you should know about Jerusalem artichokes is that they're knobbly. They are supposed to be knobbly... Do not

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It's the end of the summer, so we have a lot of left over produce in the garden that needs to be preserved for the coming months. We had a great year for figs, apples and tomatoes and also had a lot of excess radishes, zucchinis and cucumbers that needed to be used up.  Our first day of preserving went a lot better than expected, with a batch of zucchini chutney and "

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With the development of a new kitchen and shower area in the yard, we are in need of a toilet too. I put a few ideas together, mostly a mix between an outside toilet I used while helpxing in Asturias, and the existing toilets used by the campers here and came up with the Cerenety volunteer 'Loo with a view'.  As with all of our projects, we firstly had to see what materials were to hand

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Well, it's been a rather hectic year and that is the reason for the lack of blog posts. But... from now on I have come up with the genius idea of having volunteers do a weekly blog themselves about what is going on at Cerenety. That way, not only can I be lazy and disorganised but we get to see things from the views of different cultures, nationalities, ages and ideas. So here's the first one

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A BIT BLOGGED OFF. I don't do depression… I’ve never asked the doc for happy pills… and I’ve never wanted to spend the day with the curtains drawn… BUT THERE IS A LIMIT, and I think the British weather this summer may be it!!!   I now I understand why my friends called their baby NOAH, they clearly foresaw something the rest of us did not. So yes, my veg and fruit have

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So as the mad rush of spring and everything that comes with it draws to and end, I thought I'd take a look back over April, May and June. Spring at Cerenety gets all the animals a little frisky. We have mating alpacas, rowdy rabbits and horny hens,... we have ewes giving birth, orphan lambs to bottle feed, baby rabbits popping out here there and everywhere, rescue baby crows and goats with false

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After long weeks working knee deep in mud and under the torrential rain of the winter, creating a new and improved vegetable patch, it's all starting to come together now that summer is on the way. We've (well my aunt) has planted copious amounts of fruit and veg, a huge strawberry patch and a nursery of plants and young trees. Everything is now blossoming, fruiting and lots of it is ready to eat

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At the beginning of the year, we have a meeting and I'm told what I am allowed to plant in my veggie patch. Then I go and  order exactly what takes my fancy!!  and once I "hit" the herb catalogue I am transported from the cold February reality to warm, fuzzy days of summer, when the aromas of basil and coriander make it a pleasure to to get out the biggest pasta pot and

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PANSIES HAVE BEEN POTTED, PETUNIAS PLANTED AND BEANS BEDDED !!  AND NO-ONE HOME BUT US CHICKENS. I was racing to get the veggies on the go and the bedding plants all ready for the May Bank Holiday visitors, then the forecasters let us down again, predicting heavy rain for the whole weekend, when in fact we had mostly sunshine until Monday afternoon, which was when most people

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We are currently rushed off our feed with orphan lambs and lambing ewes, so this is going to be a picture heavy blog, as we're bottle feeding in 5 minutes. Our orphan lambs from 4 years ago have now become fully fledged sheep and are 2 ewes, Mini and Nancy were put to the ram about 5 months ago. Mini had triplets last week and Nancy had twins 3 days ago. Everything is going very well with the

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So, what you don’t think about when you’re bright eyed and full of ecological possibilities, planning your grand dreams of a perfect wild life pond with flowers and reeds, is the fact that one day, in the fairly near future, that wild life pond will have to be maintained. Given the nature of a wild life pond, this involves getting very wet, very dirty and very cold! Reeds must be pulled and

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The ban on battery chicken farming was enforced on January 1st 2012. The EU passed the ban in 1999, giving farmers 12 years to change technique and equipment before the legislation was enforced. Since then the Holsworthy farmer's market has been flooded with bald, scabby looking chickens with big hearts and even bigger egg laying abilities. The staff at Cerenety may have happened upon

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It being such an amazingly beautiful day yesterday, I felt the need to finish work early and head to our nearest beach. Upton beach is one of my favourite beaches in the world and is an 8 minute walk down a country lane from Cerenety (according to google maps, I didn't time myself... honest!) Fairly secret from the masses, you rarely find anyone else there, even in the height of summer. You have

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Today I took out the support stakes from our new Living Willow Hedge. We got some friends together and had a go at creating one last year. Although a little hit and miss, its actually starting to come together nicely. There are lots of reasons for building a living willow hedge, here are some of them:Living willow whips (or rods) or willow slips are relatively cheap (and found growing at

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So it seems over night, life at Cerenety changed dramatically for the better. Short days of freezing hands, feet, noses and asses followed by long nights of boredom finally gave way to spring last week. And the whole of Cerenety celebrated. Goats started springing, ponies began to gallop and roll, sheep upped their trotting and alpacas decided it was time for some lovin'. Spring has

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