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Home » Communities » Existing » The Land of Roots

The Land of Roots

Contact

Wilf Richards

Postal address

12 Goodwell Lea, Brancepeth
Durham
DH7 8EN

Telephone

07906 439084

Electronic Mail

abundantearth.durham@googlemail.com

Year started

2000

Number of over 18s

4

Number of under 18s

4

Situation

just beyond the urban

Ideological Focus

permaculture

Legal Structure

company limited by guarantee

Open in principal to new members

no

Charge Visitors

no

Work in Lieu

no

WWOOF Host

yes
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The Land of Roots Ltd is a co-operative company that owns and manages Cooke’s West Wood, 15.5 acres of land just outside of Durham City. We manage the land using permaculture methods, ethics and principles. The land includes permanent pasture and woodland. The four of us produce a variety of products from the land including vegetables, salad, herbs, lamb, charcoal, willow baskets, chickens, eggs and fruit. Our community is small, consisting of two families with occasional visitors and plenty of volunteers. The Land of Roots co-op owns our land and we trade as another co-op called Abundant Earth.

community shares income to some extent community does not require capital from members community does not have broadband internet access community generates some of its own electricity community uses solar energy community buildings have high standard of insulation community members use bicycles community has organised system for carsharing community is accessible by public transport community shares utilities
community has tool-sharing system community has organised systems for recycling community has some kind of ecosewage system community is involved in land management community grows a lot of vegetables animals kept communally regular communal meals community does not have policy which restricts smoking wheelchair access is difficult







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