 Developed originally as a primarily agricultural system that sought to learn from and mimic natural ecosystems to create more sustainable productive growing methods, it has evolved as a design system that can be applied to all areas of life.Middlewood Trust, Backsbottom Farm, Roeburndale West, Lancaster LA2 9LL

The Middlewood Trust has been staffed by volunteers for the past thirty years and volunteering remains an important part of what they do today.They run monthly volunteer events that are open to all and have featured such projects as building the new wind turbine battery shed from local materials, planting trees, coppicing and traditional baking with carbon neutral fuel.