Directions to northern access of Goffin Land

Goffin Land is just above Pinhoe/Beacon Heath.

The northern access is Church Hill,  Exeter, EX4 9JL

If you look on Google Maps with that post code you will see a drive running south off Church Hill - sometimes to Udder House, which is now called Goffin  Farm House. A sat nav will take you there, way past the Goffin Land entrance which is directly in front of the barn complex you see once you turn off from Church Hill.

You may see Mid Devon Chili Farm or Goffin Farm House, depends on the browser etc.

From Exeter take Stoke Hill to Stoke Post junction. Church Hill is to the right, sign posted Pinhoe.

From the North,  take the A396  Tiverton - Exeter road. Immediately south of the bridge after Stoke Cannon take left fork, Stoke Hill to Stoke Post where there are two turnings to the left. Take the second, sign posted Pinhoe. 

The first right hand turning, 300 metres from Stoke Post, is the drive to Goffin Land. 

The southern access is via a 400 metre bridle path from Pinwood Lane / junction of Beacon Heath & Beacon Lane EX4

Plan attached indicating the northern access. The land is to the east and south.

Car parking on the right of Clover Lane

Gray's Barn is in Serendipity

For a little more about Goffin Land read Caroline Aitkin's reflections of a visit in spring 2014. Caroline teaches permaculture design. She used to work with the late Patrick Whitefield and is co author of "Food From Your Forest Garden" with Martin Crawford.

http://goffinfarm.blogspot.co.uk/2014/07/posted-by-caroline-aitken-at-0707-no.html

Goffin Land

So What is Permaculture?

Care of the Earth   ---   Care of the People

 Share the Surplus

The definition above and below comes from:

http://www.urbanharvest.org/permaculture/definition.html

Permaculture started with a collaboration between Bill Mollison and David Holmgren at the University of Tasmania in the 1970’s. The foundation text by these two founders was Permaculture One (1978). It was followed up by Mollison’s much more comprehensive Permaculture: A Designers’ Manual (1988). Many permaculture teachers regard that book as a seminal work.

Permaculture is an ecological, holistic and sustainable design system and philosophy for human living spaces. It is a viable method for finding sustainable solutions to modern problems. It has been successfully used around the world to maximize food production, regenerate springs, cool homes without air conditioning, revive deserts, transform lives, reorganize towns and neighbourhoods, reduce pollution, and much else.

The essence of permaculture is summed up by 3 ethic principles:

Care of the Earth   ---   Care of the People   ---   Share the Surplus

The term permaculture refers to a nature-inspired design philosophy for creating permanent cultures by assuring their prerequisite— permanent, that is sustainable, agriculture. Mollison was concerned decades ago about the unsustainable nature of our fossil fuel economy. An as a forester, he was impressed with the stability and productivity of mature forests. He believed that humans could profitably copy many of the ideas we get from observing nature and applying them in gardens, towns, and structures we create.

Broadly, permaculture is an effort to reduce labor needed and energy consumed in all aspects of human endeavour so that scarce resources are used to their max and waste is absolutely minimized. One concomitant of the effort to reduce waste and energy use is the effort to produce as much food as possible as close to where one lives as is practical.

The permacultural method borrows heavily from a very accurate understanding of ecology, the efficiencies nature creates, and an effort to understand all technologies ancient and modern that might help.