Permaculture, People and Poultry: ORFC in the Field at Henbant

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Experience permaculture in practice

This May, we’ll be heading to Henbant’s 80-acre permaculture farm and agroecological education centre in North Wales to dive deep into permaculture systems with livestock in mind. Whether you are curious about permaculture, looking to learn more about holistic livestock management, or keen to connect with likeminded enthusiasts, there’s something for everyone at this In the Field event.

Join us for a hands-on learning programme in this unique and thriving mosaic landscape, situated between Snowdonia and the sea. With workshops led by some of the UK’s leading practitioners, and opportunities to connect deeply to people and place, expand the horizons of your permaculture practice and design. 

Over two days, you will:

Unlock The Layers of Henbant with Matt Swarbrick on a farm tour. The growing Henbant team have turned the 80-acre site into a thriving ecosystem that produces real food, restores biodiversity, builds soil, and brings people together. Explore the land and understand the varieties of agroforestry systems and enterprises on site, including woodland pigs, beef herds, pasture laying poultry, and the market garden. This tour will look at each of these systems and their different methods and designs: from willow fences to fruit tree rows, key line systems and perennial rows, to the progress of Henbant’s agriwilding spruce plantation, and the wooded pastures.

Join Hannah Thorogood of Inkpot Farm for an interactive, fun, and highly practical workshop on Applying Permaculture Design to Livestock Systems, understanding how we can apply the design tools, ethics, and thinking of permaculture to designing livestock systems on our farms. This will be an opportunity to think practically about your own farms, so come with your ideas and questions.

Take A Bird’s Eye View of Heritage Poultry, with Ember Checkley of Thrive Poultry to explore rare, native and dual-purpose breeds, their history, and potential place in regenerative systems. This will be an opportunity to explore how people, nature and poultry can work together in permaculture frameworks, and a chance to meet and get to know a few birds too! 

Experience a Masterclass on Biofertilisers with Matt Dunwell. Involved in permaculture since 1990, Matt ran Ragmans Lane Farm for 35 years, leading courses in permaculture and working with cattle, sheep and pigs, apples, shiitake mushrooms and more. Matt will be bringing his wealth of experience and expertise to lead a deep dive into nature-friendly ways to build happy and healthy soil. 

Grow the UK Permaculture Movement over lunch with the Permaculture Association’s Andy Goldring, with an opportunity to share examples of how permaculture practice is being adopted by UK farmers, and learn what the Permaculture Association can offer in terms of learning and networking for farmers and farming communities. Bring your questions, comments and proposals to grow the movement together.

For early arrivals on the evening of Tuesday 19th May, we’ll be treated to a night of stories with local folklorist Eric Maddern, and delicious pizzas from the wood oven. We’ll continue with farm-based feasts over the course of the two days, relaxing time in the sauna, a dawn chorus bird walk, and – for those who really like to get stuck in – a chance to join in the team’s early morning veg box packing! 

Get ready to gain new skills and understanding from our expert workshop leads, who will be guiding you through:

• applying permaculture design to livestock systems
• rare and heritage poultry for permaculture systems 
• agroforestry with pigs 
• pasture laying poultry enterprises
• biofertilisers for permaculture  
• growing the UK permaculture movement 
• people-centred and community-based farming

Practical Information

Meals
Lunch, tea and coffee are included in the ticket price on both days. Ticketed dinners are also available for purchase, please see further details of each dinner below, please do let us know your dietary requirements when booking your ticket. The Henbant team will be looking after catering using plenty of seasonal produce and meat produced on the Farm; there will be vegetarian and vegan options also available. Please note dinner tickets must be booked in advance by Monday, 18th May to secure your place.

Tuesday 19th May Dinner: Hand rolled Henbant sourdough pizza, topped then fired in a traditional pizza oven and served straight to your plate. Choose from margarita, roasted garden vegetables, or spicy beef and mushroom.

Wednesday 20th May Dinner: beef or vegetable stew with roasted vegetables from the garden. 

Thursday 21st May Dinner: Henbant Beef or Vegetable Lasagne with garden salad from the farm. 

Accomodation
On-site camping and campervan accommodation is available and can be purchased alongside your ticket. Camping and campervans are £15 per person / per night. Please note there is a limited number of campervan spots. Toilets, showers and a small kitchen with hot water and a hob will be available for all campers. 

If you would prefer to stay off-site there are hotels and bed and breakfast accommodation options available in the nearby towns of Penygroes and Caernarfon.

Public transport
The nearest train stations to Henbant are Porthmadog and Bangor.

Parking
Early arrivals are welcome from 4pm on Monday, 6th April. Parking is available on-site. As much as possible we encourage delegates to liftshare (or self-organise shared taxis) using the spreadsheet included in the order confirmation email. 

Subsidised tickets
We offer a limited number of subsidised tickets for students; young people (under 25); BPOC; part-time, low-waged, and/or unpaid workers; new entrant farmers; and anyone otherwise unable to attend.

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Profi permaculture ar waith

Y mis Mai hwn, byddwn yn mynd i fferm bermaculture 80 erw Henbant a’i chanolfan addysg agroecolegol yng Ngogledd Cymru i ymchwilio’n fanwl i systemau permaculture gyda da byw mewn golwg. P’un a ydych chi’n chwilfrydig am bermaculture, yn edrych i ddysgu mwy am reoli da byw cyfannol, neu’n awyddus i gysylltu â selogion o’r un anian, mae rhywbeth i bawb yn y digwyddiad Yn y Maes hwn.

Ymunwch â ni am raglen ddysgu ymarferol yn y dirwedd fosaig unigryw a ffyniannus hon, wedi’i lleoli rhwng Eryri a’r môr. Gyda gweithdai dan arweiniad rhai o ymarferwyr blaenllaw’r DU, a chyfleoedd i gysylltu’n ddwfn â phobl a lle, ehangu gorwelion eich ymarfer a’ch dyluniad permaculture.

Dros gyfnod o ddau ddiwrnod, byddwch yn:

Datgloi Haenau Henbant gyda Matt Swarbrick ar daith fferm. Mae tîm tyfu Henbant wedi troi’r safle 80 erw yn ecosystem ffyniannus sy’n cynhyrchu bwyd go iawn, yn adfer bioamrywiaeth, yn adeiladu pridd, ac yn dod â phobl ynghyd. Archwiliwch y tir a deallwch yr amrywiaethau o systemau a mentrau agroforestry ar y safle, gan gynnwys moch coetir, buchesi cig eidion, dofednod pori, a’r ardd farchnad. Bydd y daith hon yn edrych ar bob un o’r systemau hyn a’u dulliau a’u dyluniadau gwahanol: o ffensys helyg i resi coed ffrwythau, systemau llinell allweddol a rhesi lluosflwydd, i gynnydd planhigfa sbriws amaeth-wyllt Henbant, a’r porfeydd coediog.

Ymuno â Hannah Thorogood o Fferm Inkpot am weithdy rhyngweithiol, hwyliog, ac ymarferol iawn ar Gymhwyso Dylunio Permaculture i Systemau Da Byw, gan ddeall sut y gallwn gymhwyso’r offer dylunio, moeseg, a meddwl permaculture i ddylunio systemau da byw ar ein ffermydd. Bydd hwn yn gyfle i feddwl yn ymarferol am eich ffermydd eich hun, felly dewch â’ch syniadau a’ch cwestiynau.

Cael Golwg Adar ar Ddofednod Brodorol, gydag Ember Checkley o Thrive Poultry i archwilio bridiau prin, brodorol a deu-bwrpas, eu hanes, a’u lle posibl mewn systemau adfywiol. Bydd hwn yn gyfle i archwilio sut y gall pobl, natur a dofednod gydweithio mewn fframweithiau permaculture, a chyfle i gwrdd â rhai adar a dod i adnabod nhw hefyd!

Profi Ddosbarth Meistr ar Fiowrteithiau gyda Matt Dunwell. Wedi bod yn ymwneud â permaculture ers 1990, rhedodd Matt Fferm Ragmans Lane am 35 mlynedd, gan arwain cyrsiau mewn permaculture a gweithio gyda gwartheg, defaid a moch, afalau, madarch shiitake a mwy. Bydd Matt yn dod â’i gyfoeth o brofiad ac arbenigedd i arwain plymio dwfn i ffyrdd sy’n gyfeillgar i natur o adeiladu pridd hapus ac iach.

Tyfu Mudiad Permaculture y DU dros ginio gydag Andy Goldring o’r Gymdeithas Permaculture, gyda chyfle i rannu enghreifftiau o sut mae ymarfer permaculture yn cael ei fabwysiadu gan ffermwyr y DU, a dysgu beth all y Gymdeithas Permaculture ei gynnig o ran dysgu a rhwydweithio i ffermwyr a chymunedau ffermio. Dewch â’ch cwestiynau, sylwadau a chynigion i dyfu’r mudiad gyda’n gilydd.

I’r rhai sy’n cyrraedd yn gynnar nos Fawrth 19eg Mai, byddwn yn cael noson o straeon gyda’r arbenigwr gwerin lleol Eric Maddern, a phitsas blasus o’r popty coed. Byddwn yn parhau gyda gwleddoedd fferm dros y ddau ddiwrnod, amser ymlacio yn y sawna, taith gerdded adar côr y wawr, ac – i’r rhai sy’n hoffi mynd ati i fwynhau’r profiad – cyfle i ymuno â phacio blychau llysiau’r tîm yn gynnar yn y bore! 

Byddwch yn barod i ennill sgiliau a dealltwriaeth newydd gan ein harweinwyr gweithdai arbenigol, a fydd yn eich tywys drwy:

• cymhwyso dyluniad permaculture i systemau da byw
• dofednod prin a threftadaeth ar gyfer systemau permaculture
• agroforestry gyda moch
• mentrau dofednod sy’n dodwy porfa
• biowrteithiau ar gyfer permaculture
• tyfu mudiad permaculture y DU
• ffermio sy’n canolbwyntio ar bobl ac yn seiliedig ar y gymuned

Gwybodaeth Ymarferol

Prydau Bwyd:
Mae cinio, te a choffi wedi’u cynnwys ym mhris y tocyn ar y ddau ddiwrnod. Mae ciniawau â thocynnau hefyd ar gael i’w prynu, gweler rhagor o fanylion am bob cinio isod, rhowch wybod i ni eich gofynion dietegol wrth archebu’ch tocyn. Bydd tîm Henbant yn gofalu am arlwyo gan ddefnyddio digon o gynnyrch tymhorol a chig a gynhyrchir ar y Fferm; bydd opsiynau llysieuol a fegan ar gael hefyd. Sylwch fod yn rhaid archebu tocynnau cinio ymlaen llaw erbyn dydd Llun, 18fed Mai i sicrhau eich lle.

Cinio Dydd Mawrth 19 Mai: Pitsa toes sur Henbant wedi’i rolio â llaw, wedi’i orchuddio ac yna’i thanio mewn popty pitsa traddodiadol a’i weini’n syth i’ch plât. Dewiswch o margarita, llysiau gardd wedi’u rhostio, neu gig eidion a madarch sbeislyd.

Cinio Dydd Mercher 20 Mai: Stiw cig eidion neu lysiau gyda llysiau wedi’u rhostio o’r ardd.

Cinio Dydd Iau 21 Mai: Lasagne Cig Eidion neu Lysiau Henbant gyda salad gardd o’r fferm.

Llety
Mae llety gwersylla a faniau gwersylla ar y safle ar gael a gellir ei brynu ochr yn ochr â’ch tocyn. Mae gwersylla a faniau gwersylla yn £15 y pen / y noson. Sylwch fod nifer gyfyngedig o leoedd mewn faniau gwersylla. Bydd toiledau, cawodydd a chegin fach gyda dŵr poeth a hob ar gael i bob gwersyllwr.

Os byddai’n well gennych aros oddi ar y safle mae gwestai a llety gwely a brecwast ar gael yn nhrefi cyfagos Penygroes a Chaernarfon.

Trafnidiaeth Gyhoeddus
Y gorsafoedd trên agosaf at Henbant yw Porthmadog a Bangor.

Parcio
Mae parcio am ddim a digon ohono i bob cynrychiolydd. Cymaint ag y bo modd rydym yn annog cynrychiolwyr i rannu lifftiau (neu drefnu tacsis a rennir eu hunain) gan ddefnyddio’r daenlen sydd wedi’i chynnwys yn yr e-bost cadarnhau archeb.

Tocynnau â Chymhorthdal ​​
Rydym yn cynnig nifer gyfyngedig o docynnau â chymhorthdal ​​i fyfyrwyr; pobl ifanc (dan 25 oed); BPOC; gweithwyr rhan-amser, cyflog isel, a/neu ddi-dâl; ffermwyr newydd; ac unrhyw un na all fynychu fel arall.

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Refund Policy and Transfer of Tickets
Refund or transfer requests must be submitted in writing to caitlin@realfarming.org by Friday, 1st May 2026. No refunds will be provided after this date, without exception. Please note booking fees are non-refundable.

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ORFC in the Field is a charitable programme of the Real Farming Trust. In pursuit of our charitable objectives, all income is used to cover the costs of ORFC. Registered charity number: 1061607. Registered company number: 3336

Polisi Ad-dalu a Throsglwyddo Tocynnau

Rhaid cyflwyno ceisiadau am ad-daliad neu drosglwyddo yn ysgrifenedig i caitlin@orfc.org.uk erbyn dydd Gwener, 1af Mai 2026. Ni ddarperir unrhyw ad-daliadau ar ôl y dyddiad hwn, heb eithriad. Sylwch nad yw ffioedd archebu yn ad-daladwy.

Mae gwerthiannau tocynnau twyllodrus wedi’u ceisio yn y gorffennol trwy sefydlu digwyddiadau ORFC ffug. Darllenwch ein datganiad Diogelu rhag Twyll i ddeall mwy am y mesurau y gallwch eu cymryd i amddiffyn eich hun rhag gwe-rwydo a sgamiau.

Mae ORFC in the Field yn rhaglen elusennol o’r Real Farming Trust. Wrth fynd ar drywydd ein hamcanion elusennol, defnyddir yr holl incwm i dalu costau ORFC. Rhif elusen gofrestredig: 1061607. Rhif cwmni cofrestredig: 3336