We run a weekly volunteering programme to help us complete tasks that we may not have had time to complete as part of our normal day-to-day horticulture supporting our learners & trainees. We meet every Thursday from 9.30 until 3.30 and provide all our volunteers with a free lunch, all tools and equipment and any training necessary to carry out the tasks we need to undertake. Throughout the seasons we will change the work we do according to what is most needed, so this will c

Thank you so much to everyone who has been supporting our Gofundme page - donating, sharing or offering help. We have been so overwhelmed by the support and kind words we have received and you have all given us hope that we can reach our recovery target. Our now, almost resident, tree surgeon Paul Groves has been on site regularly over the last 10 days and we have also had an incredibly generous offer of help to have a team of arborists on site for a day - this is a massive

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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We are delighted to share the Summer issue of Open Doors magazine which is now live. It is created by and for young people with Special...