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