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We have spaces on our day service! We have placements available for people with disabilities who enjoy gardening and working outdoors and are able to work in a group with 1 staff member and five trainees. Our trainees enjoy growing veg and flowers in our horticulture sections, fixing and maintaining the site in our maintenance group, serving the local community in our shop and learning cooking skills in our kitchen. If you'd like to part of our team then give us a call on 012

Huge gratitude to the Finance Team from St. Austell Brewery, who took part in a team-building corporate volunteer day last Thursday. We had over 30 volunteers who achieved a massive amount on the site that was the National Dahlia Collection up until last October. The Team quickly got to work weeding all the beds & cutting the edges back in. Some of the weed supressing covers were removed and then beds were planted up. Many hands make light work!! And we had a LOT of hands! Th

We are so excited to share the news that our apple juice scooped not just one but TWO awards at the Cornwall Cider Championships, Royal Cornwall Show at the beginning of June. Our early, cloudy juice 'Discover Pear' ( a blend of Discovery & Cornish Pear Apple) won a silver award and our late season Jupiter Gold (a blend of Jupiter & Jonagold) won bronze. The comments from the judges were so positive, saying that our juice tasted so bright and fresh, almost as though it had no

Our beautiful oriental poppies have just burst into bloom and are putting on a fantastic display in the dutch glasshouse. These gorgeous flowers self-seed each year, returning every spring for everyone to enjoy. Lovely to see our trainees making the most of them today!

In order to make our taskforce sessions more accessible, we have decided to change them to a weekend day to allow working individuals and families to attend if they'd like to. We will still be focussing on completing tasks that we may not have had time to complete as part of our normal day-to-day horticulture supporting our learners & trainees. Some of our work will not be suitable for small children, so please just drop us an email if you're thinking of coming to a session a

We are now down to the last 4 big Bishop's Pine to be felled. This pile of logs are down the boundary at the Community Tree Nursery which is finally accessible again and the team can move in again, weed the beds and get this year's native tree saplings planted. We can say that we actually the newly revealed native tree boundary to the North West side of the Community Tree Nursery is actually quite nice!! The elder there has flowered and we have harvested the flowers for cordi

Meet Kayleigh, section lead for Section 2 at Kehelland Trust.... This section grows a wide variety of edible crops that are enjoyed in our kitchen and made available at our shops, both on and off site and sold to the Cornish Food Box Company and other fresh produce retailers across West Cornwall. Almost and A-Z of veg! Artichokes, Aubergines, cucumbers, climbing beans, leaves and edible flowers for our ever-popular salad bags, chard, kale, peas, courgettes, purple sprouting

Meet our maintenance team at Kehelland Trust.... If it aint broke, don't fix it. When it is broke, call our maintenance team because they can fix anything!! We are fortunate to have the most incredible staff on maintenance who can find a way to do practically anything we call on them to do. They do have a long list of things to get on with, but every day, something new will appear. Plus the grass keeps on growing and the sales team keep selling bird boxes and insect houses!

Meet Martina, Section 1 lead at Kehelland Trust.... This section is responsible for a lot of bench work; growing on our perennial plants from seed right through to sales-ready 2ltr pots and bigger. They are based up in our covered sales area so they get lots of contact with members of the public coming in to buy plants and spend time dead-heading the pot-grown stock and keeping the sales are watered and looking tip-top. All the plants grown in this section are chosen, not ju

Meet Sam, Section 3 lead at Kehelland Trust.... There is never a dull moment in this section. More is more here where the focus is on tomatoes, courgettes, peppers, chillies, early runner beans, winter salad, oriental leaf & squash. With over 400 tomato plants there is a lot of crop maintenance needed - that's a lot of side shooting and winding onto strings. Trainees in this section get stuck in to loads of different tasks from seed sowing, to pricking out, planting out, we

Meet Lynn, our section 1 lead. Everyone working in this section is focussed on year-round-colour and particularly loves to celebrate everything 'flowers'. From growing for cutting and drying, to creating stunning flower arrangements for our on-site weddings or growing on thousands of plug plants for customers and municipal basket planting for local councils like Helston and Hayle. One of the most loved and accessible tasks is growing, harvesting and prepping flowers for ou

Take a look back over the events of Apple Day 2025!

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Take a look at the events coming up throughout April and May at Kehelland Trust!