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Productive landscapes…green buildings Food Processing Barn at Five Penny Farm Over 200 people helped raise a new barn at Five Penny Farm, Whitchurch Canonicorum, to provide food processing and storage facilities for a co-operative of farmers in the Marshwood Vale. Jyoti Fernandez, driving force behind the project explains ‘We have a co-operative of 46 members, all local small scale food producers. We all want to produce food in a way we that doesn’t have a negative impact on the environment and so the construction of the barn using locally sourced materials - a timber frame, thatch roof and cobb cellar - was really important to us’. The co-op members wanted to add value to the food they grow to make their work viable. They will use the barn to transform what they grow or rear into bacon, ham, salami, juice, jams, dairy products, chutneys and herbal products. All will be sold at local outlets and they hope to run courses at the barn to share their skills around. Jyoti is pleased with what they have achieved ‘The barn raising was great - an amazing feeling to see such a tangible, big, lasting building coming into being. It has really brought the co-operative together and inspired them to produce more!’ Brownsea Island outdoor activity centre The new outdoor activity centre on Brownsea Island follows the scouting principles of ‘leaving the ground as you found it’ throughout it’s design. Incorporating rainwater recycling, water minimisation, wind turbine power generation and biomass boilers for heat, the building will run with little impact on the environment. It’s unique design also ensures that it can be completely removed, including the foundations, leaving no trace of it ever having been there.
‘The barn raising was great - an amazing feeling to see such a tangible, big, lasting building coming into being!’
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