The Warren Forest Garden and Eco Cabins

Name: The Warren Forest Garden and Eco Cabins
Address: The Warren, Kilcoy Farm, Muir of Ord, IV67RX, GB
Telephone: +441463871171
Price range: ££
Rating: 3

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The Warren Forest Garden and Eco Cabins
Woodland Accommodation and Creative Retreats in the Scottish Highlands.
2.5 acre Permaculture designed regenerative gardens
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28/05/2024

If you're not keen on lupins, look away (photos taken this morning before the rain!) But there are also foxgloves, alliums, camassias, tree lupins, geum, and figs in the polytunnel #

26/05/2024

Summer in the forest garden (but not very sunny 🌞)

24/05/2024

Some welcome rain after a few dry weeks restored the lush green of the forest gardens...and the water butt's all refilled over one night.

20/05/2024

Today we made some adjustments to our small pond and discovered this wee newt under a rock...does anyone know what sort of newt it is as doesn't look like any of the 3 that we would have here?

19/05/2024

Forest Garden walkaround

18/05/2024

Allium, aquilegia and lupins are enjoying the hot weather...the hugel bed is looking lush and abundant with herbs and flowers

17/05/2024

A busy few weeks with help from volunteers and friends. This week we welcomed who has been weeding and mulching in the forest garden, sowing seeds in the kitchen garden and splitting logs for firewood. We also started work on the new dining table from our milled ash...

11/05/2024

💛 We want to empower more individuals, householders and communities to use permaculture to take practical action on climate change.

10/05/2024

Spring life at the Warren....

04/05/2024

Siskin Cabin ready for guests this bank holiday 😎 and some sun 🌞 we only have a few dates available in May

01/05/2024

Happy Beltane 😊 the sun has come out and its warmed up so taking time to walk around and observe the beauty of May. Last night we saw the bats flying around the house, and were pleased to see a frog has taken up residence in the tyre pond...today we sowed peas in gutters to suspend in the potting shed..between mice, voles and slugs our first batches of sowing didn't fare well.

27/04/2024

Sakura, evening sun in the forest gardens (between the rain and hail!), tulips in their prime, broad beans, salads, chard and beetroot planted in polytunnel and kitchen beds, bee's enjoying comfrey andprimroses, 1st early tatties in boxes and bags...a busy few days

23/04/2024

Due to a cancellation we've got availability in Coll Cabin from 1st May until 9th, and a 15% discount on those dates. Recent guests have been enjoying the restorative and relaxing atmosphere of the cabin, waking to birdsong, surrounded by wood anemones, daffodils, and bluebells and generally slowing down. You can also explore the area easily by public transport, one of our favourite walks along the cat's back to knockfarrel hill fort is on bus route 27..So if that sounds like what you need head to our Airbnb link in bio to book

19/04/2024

More spring blossom and blooms in the Forest Garden

13/04/2024

Today's not drawing us outside to work so we're taking the opportunity to enjoy a relaxing afternoon. Permaculture isn't all about plants, reusing, recycling and valuing things are equally important. This chair was Julie's nan's, then her dad's, now we've had it lovingly reupholstered by Jana for a new space in the house...the blue chair for the studio was from . Both re-recovered in sustainable flax fabric. In between gales and driving rain, some brief bursts of sun bringing out the blossom. And there's always the potting shed between showers...

09/04/2024

Spring in the forest garden, damson blossom, preparing the polytunnel, and a monster Aloe Vera..

02/04/2024

As well as being 11 years today since we left London to start a very different life, today also marks the milestone of our 100th review on Airbnb. And it's a lovely 5* review by guests who really appreciated what we are doing. We also started our season with this nice handwritten review, appreciating the wildlife around the cabins. Our design to create somewhere beautiful, productive, ecologically diverse, and regenerative feels like it has been successful.

Address

The Warren, Kilcoy Farm
Muir Of Ord
IV67RX

Telephone

+441463871171

Website

https://blackislepermacultureandarts.co.uk/

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We're still accepting applications for creative residencies in February, March and April 2024 but we're closing the window for applications at the end of this month. Applications for autumn are open until end of August. If you're thinking of applying or have any questions DM for more info. #creativeretreats #artistretreat #tinyhouse #cabiinthewoods #residency #scottishhighlands

Our new hens (courtesy of Dan @black_isle_veg_boxes!) are enjoying their new home and some tasty rocket.. Our hen population is now in double figures and provides plenty of eggs for us and our cabin guests #organicfood #freerangechickens #greentourism

Bee at work....

The biggest bee...

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The burn at Redcastle running into the Beauly firth on today's walk

Sunny Sunday walk down to the firth

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About our place

We are Clive and Julie, who co-own and run Black Isle Permaculture & Arts (BIPA), a Permaculture smallholding and business on the Black Isle, 13km north of Inverness in the Highlands of Scotland.

What is our Permaculture smallholding

In August 2015 we moved to a bungalow nestled in a 2.5 acre garden and woodland and are developing an organic Permaculture project for food, wood fuel, habitat, well-being, abundant foraging, leisure and education and livelihood.

We are a domestic micro-smallholding where we are able to live a creative, sustainable and resilient lifestyle by the Permaculture Principles of People Care, Earth Care and Fair Share: a place where people can visit, stay, learn from and be inspired by an example of an organic smallholding incorporating a home based economy and resilient business plan.

We have used Permaculture design to create a place where we can live in a harmonious ecological balance which provides us with many of our needs: food, a comfortable place to live, a livelihood, but also habitat for wildlife, and a place to share what we are learning. We have meadows, forest gardens, mixed woodland, a kitchen garden growing vegetables, salads, herbs, fruit, six free range hens, and wild flowers to encourage insects and pollinators. We use organic and no dig methods to create healthy soil, workingwith closed loop systems so nothing is wasted, either through composting, wormeries, mulching, materialsreusing andwood processing for fuel.

On-site, we have built a compost toilet and a Yurt for use during events and workshops, and two eco camping huts for guests wanting a sustainable, Permaculture inspired holiday. We have used natural and organic materials to eco renovate the bungalow and installed renewable energies such as solar PV, solar hot water and biomass heating, as well as energy efficiency measures to reduce our energy consumption and carbon footprint. We have an arts and crafts studio where we work to create artwork and handmade products.

We welcome visitors by appointment, and hold open days, courses and workshops throughout the year. In 2020 we aim to offer eco friendly holiday accommodation in our woodland camping huts. Please contact us if you’d like to visit or look out for details of events on this site.

What is a smallholding?

A smallholding is a residential site with more land than a garden, but less than a farm. The land is typically used for productive mixed crops including livestock and woodland management for fuel. Often there will be growing both for the needs of the residents (subsistence farming) and for cash crops. The lines between garden, smallholding and farm are blurred but basically a smallholding is just a very small mixed farm – small being relative to the size of farms in that particular society. Crofts(Scotland) are smallholdings, although there is a legally-defined tenure for a croft, but not for a smallholding. Smallholdings can be comprised of families, individuals or communities, where people pool resources to hold land together. More info here

What is Permaculture? Permaculture combines three key aspects: 1. An ethical framework 2. Understandings of how nature works 3. A design approach

Our design and vision is to create forest gardens, woodland and growing spaces that maximise habitat and diversity, along with a thriving and self-sustaining food-web, with multifunctional plants providing food, fuel, craft materials, income, and beauty.

We became a Permaculture ScotLAND Learning And Network Demonstration (LAND) Centre in 2018 and are using our gardens as a space to show the possibilities of Permaculture on a domestic scale. ScotLAND Centres are excellent demonstrations of permaculture in action, with skill in applying permaculture. ScotLAND Centres have demonstrated their ability to explain their use of permaculture ethics and principles to visitors and volunteers and offer opportunities for learning.