Gardening behind bars – prison staff visit Eden for ideas

Staff from South West prisons took a special tour of Eden’s gardens yesterday to get inspiration for running their own therapeutic growing schemes with prisoners. Representatives from institutions including Devon’s Dartmoor prison and Dorset’s Guys Marsh spent a day with our team to learn more about the practicalities of gardening and composting – as well [...]

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New exhibit on Eden’s charity projects in our land train shelter

Fans of Eden’s tractor-towed land train will be excited to hear that we’ve just done a revamp of the shelter to include an exhibition of some of our charitable projects. Exhibit designer Michelle Taylor has kitted the place out like a traditional gardening shed, complete with old tools hanging from the eaves. Also brightening the [...]

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The future is bright, the future is low-carbon: Transition Town man Rob Hopkins

Rob Hopkins, co-founder of the Transition Network, is a man gearing up for climate change and peak oil. The good news is that he says he can taste a brighter future already. A low-carbon world, a post-oil, resilient world isn’t something abstract and notional, rather it is something we can already taste in the world [...]

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Surprise birthday lunch for visiting schoolchildren

Eden broke out the cake and candles today (March 17) as a party of children helped the project mark its first decade. The pupils from Ladock Primary School near Truro, Cornwall, and Withycombe Raleigh Primary School in Exmouth, Devon, were on an educational visit when they were delighted by the surprise party in the Mediterranean [...]

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Seed swap heads for the Clay Country

We’re hosting a local Seed Swap to help people to get ready for spring. Members of the Eden team, including gardening experts and story tellers, will head down to Penwithick Community Hall on Tuesday 22 February to give locals a chance to plant, grow, cook, and share food. There’ll be bulb-planting and free hands-on gardening [...]

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Eden Project Cafe opens today in St Austell town centre

Our new Eden Project Cafe opened its doors to the public this morning! Pop along to the new spot in White River Place, St Austell, Cornwall, for delicious food and drink; late night openings, free wifi; a book exchange; a fruit and veg swap. Find out more about the Eden Project Cafe.

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Knitting created by Eden visitors provides winter warmth for homeless

Hundreds of our visitors have helped create patchwork blankets for a local homeless charity during several knitting marathons at Eden. Keen knitters and amateurs alike got their needles clicking at our Hive of Activity in November and December, a series of creative workshops here on site. They added metres of new rows to the ‘river of blue’ knitting [...]

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Big Design Challenge Cornwall at Eden

A Dragon’s Den style pitching event is happening at Eden on 2nd March as part of the Intersections 2011 conference which is taking place here on the 2 / 3 March. 6 ideas to address community challenges in Cornwall will be competing for a prize fund of up to £10,000. The challenges have been selected [...]

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Eden dance club for local young people

Eden is the venue for a new dance club for young people from St Austell and the surrounding area. Aimed at those aged 13 to 19, the sessions will take place at 10–11.30am in Eden’s Core building every Saturday from 5 February to 26 March. Run in collaboration with The Works, Dance and Theatre Cornwall, which supports [...]

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Eden’s Tim Smit asks government to reconsider forest sell-off

Tim Smit has added his name to an open letter to the government asking it to reconsider the recent proposal to sell England’s public forest estate to commercial interests on the open market. As CEO of a place that believes in exploring our relationship with the natural world and outdoor wild play (below), Tim has [...]

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