Ragmans Lane Farm, Lower Lydbrook, Gloucestershire,GL17 9PA

01594 860244

Ragmans has been operating since 1990 as a place where permaculture ideas are experimented with. Over the years many diverse activities have taken place at Ragmans, it is responsive to new ideas and new people. Currently the farm has 3 core areas of work: apple juice, mushroom logs and teaching. They have 1000 apple trees and make about 15000 bottles of juice a year. They have taught about 1700 people on courses since 1991.

They are currently working with a local community group to develop a veg-box scheme on the farm, looking at further uses for their mushroom technology and looking at ways to enable people to use the land in a productive and sustainable way through running their own sustainable projects.

The farm has permaculture design features built-in to the infrastructure including water harvesting and storage, low-impact buildings, solar and biomass heating systems and comfrey production. Ragmans can provide permaculture examples for broadscale farmers and urban contexts. Contact