Gortbrack’s Green Charter
Mission Statement:
Gortbrack Organic Farm is an organic farm and an environmental and organic education centre. Gortbrack Organic Farm aims to provide all sections of the community with a sustainable, educational and social resource that is based on practical skills development.
Overall aim:
To provide an organic, environmental, residential training centre. The farm will provide opportunities for organic environmental education, training and awareness, and will become a sustainable resource that will enhance personal and community development.
Environmental Education:
Local Organic Food Production
Heritage and Biodiversity
Art and the Environment
Mission Statement:
Gortbrack Organic Farm is an organic farm and an environmental and organic education centre. Gortbrack Organic Farm aims to provide all sections of the community with a sustainable, educational and social resource that is based on practical skills development.
Overall aim:
To provide an organic, environmental, residential training centre. The farm will provide opportunities for organic environmental education, training and awareness, and will become a sustainable resource that will enhance personal and community development.
Environmental Education:
- To create awareness of sustainable living and our interrelationships and interdependence with nature
- To promote an ethos of environmental protection and conservation e.g. recycling, composting, and organic food production
- To create an awareness of Local Agenda 21, the Global Action Plan which resulted from the Rio Earth Summit in 1992,
- To promote the health value of growing and eating food, that is grown locally using organic methods
- To insure that all training and education programmes are based on organic principles and the development of practical skills
- To promote the importance & relevance of organic & environmental skills in the rural, urban & suburban garden
Local Organic Food Production
- Gortbrack Organic Farm maintains a small organic market garden and supplies the local community
- To ensure the market garden forms the basis for the organic and environmental training
- To provide medicinal and culinary herbs
Heritage and Biodiversity
- Gortbrack Organic Farm demonstrates heritage and biodiversity in action and is host to KEEP
- Under the Heritage in Schools Schemes, KEEP provides practical and environmental education in schools
Art and the Environment
- To promote garden design as an art form, where the organic garden is not just functional but visually attractive