Manna is registered with easy fundraising and some of you have been using this and have raised over £1,300 over the past few years. So thank you for your wonderful support. Many of you are new to Manna this year so I thought I should ask if you would be willing to join us in raising FREE…
We have had a brilliantly busy summer at Manna with our activity days, tending to the crops, welcoming new people, and holding our first ever ‘Farmival’, which may well become an annual event. Thank you to all who have come and helped, supported, and enjoyed Manna this summer. We are truly grateful to the Farming…
If you have not yet registered to join us at the Farmival then it is not too late. Just follow this link: https://forms.gle/3GdehYsVpiPiS8fJ7 Please note that parking is onsite.
We had another successful activity day with lots of lovely new families. The children harvested their own willow to create colourful staffs. They showed excellent creativity skills by carving, painting, and flamboyantly decorating their staffs, and most of them ended the day climbing the Den while making new friends. Thank you all for coming once…
We had a super activity day with the Smile Connect families who had great fun making kazoos, a giant bug house, a nature scavenger hunt, cuddling the lambs, and fire pit fun. It was lovely to meet some new families as well as welcome back others. It was great to have a family return who…
As we welcome in a new year and another season unfolds, we are taking time to look back over the last years developments at Manna. Our Life Giving Skills project and holiday activity days have led to a whole new chapter at Manna where children and families are very much a part of the land.…
We have been running the Life Giving Skills project since last September and it continues to be a great success. Each week we get children and adults involved with all sorts of farming and horticultural activities, focussing upon sustainable farming on a micro level. To give you a snapshot, last week following the discovery of…
A couple of weeks ago we held our first plant sale and open day and it was a wonderful success. Many people came on what was a beautiful summers day. We sold lots of plants, cakes, and drinks, and the kids had a great time, kayaking on the river and roasting marshmallows over the fire…
This year as a part of the Life Giving Skills project we have started a Jadan Liquid Fertiliser (JLF) micro farm, with the aim of producing all of our plant feeds from materials we produce or grow at Manna. We currently have various plant ‘brews’ going, including comfrey, nettles, and dock leaves – all selected…