Events

Easter holidays 2023 – Well-being and camping weekend at Ro Dama

This April we are opening our gates for camping as well as running a range of daily events focusing on health, wellbeing and permaculture with our network of skilled facilitators.
We welcome you and your family to come and pitch a tent or campervan and get stuck in with cornish hedging, forest school, permaculture talks, foraging and foodie workshops, campfire sessions and loads more.

Please book onto camping via pitch up and message us to book onto individual workshops. Many of our workshops offer a tiered pricing system to ensure finance is not a barrier to coming to get involved and connect to the land and biodiversity.

To Book your pitch please visit
https://www.pitchup.com/campsites/England/South_West/Cornwall/Camborne/ro-dama-farm/

To book onto a workshop please message Ro Dama, email rodamafarm@gmail.com
or send us a whatsapp
And you will be sent the payment info.

Looking forward to seeing you soon.

During the bank holdiay weekend we have a range of activities and workshops for families. We welcome you to come along for the day or book a pitch to camp at our off-grid campsite.

Friday :
11am: Foraging walk with Stuart Woodman
2pm: Lunch
5pm; Pizzas and Fire & Tunes

Saturday:
9am Breakfast
11am: Gong Bath with Liz Thomas*
1pm: Lunch & Gardening
5pm: Positive Visualisation Workshop

Sunday:
12pm: Easter egg hunt and Bioblitz for families

Cornish Hedge building in Autumn 2022

People of all ages gathered in all weathers to learn and develop skills in building a traditional Cornish hedge. Building and repairing our local hedges is a vital craft in danger of disappearing in modern communities.

The Wilderness Workshop Weekend July 2022

July 2022 saw the return of our annual community gathering at Ro Dama Farm, a chance for us to share a weekend of learning, laughter, relaxation and joy at the second Wilderness Workshop Weekend. This year we focussed on developing the well being element of our work. We had a wide range of educational and fun activities throughout the weekend including Cornish hedge building, face painting and bouncy castle for the young ones, food foraging, making natural healing skin balms, a group Tai Chi session, discussions and demonstrations of all things healing and permaculture and much more. With greater focus on the well being element of our work we introduced our new Healing Tent. Over the weekend we offered a broad range of healing and well being experiences including positive visualisation sessions, a wonderful gong sound bath, hypnotherapy , a fabulous group Tai Chi session on the Plenn an Gwarry and innovative trance inducing Binaural Healing Sounds.

Cornish Hedge building in the background while others check the pizza oven producing nutritious snacks all weekend for the many hungry children.

With great gratitude to Liz Thomas for her amazing contribution and genuine healing, Jim and Bruce at Top Hat Sound System for the fully transformative Binaural Beats experience…to Cali, again, for the fabulous workshop on foraged plant medicine and to Sam who facilitated the Cornish Hedge building workshops throughout the weekend. Big thanks again to Luke who wove his culinary magic with the Saturday evening fireside barbecue, serving a mouthwatering seafood banquet. We made and shared food throughout the weekend …with enormous thanks to Sue, Carrie and Mel for a constant feast of mostly foraged and gleaned nutritious delights. This included the now legendary Sue’s Hedge Beer, a refreshing and nutritious tonic made from stinging nettles and cleavers. In the evenings we shared quiet and relaxing hours under the stars, sharing jokes, stories, songs and poems, sharing laughter and joy around the hillside campfire. We made new friends and allies and renewed our collective energies through a truly relaxing weekend experience.

The young people took on making signposts early on

Olla making workshop at Ro Dama

March 2022

Local permaculture activist Shaun Mcbride facilitated the Olla making workshop with a group of enthusiastic local gardeners here at Ro Dama.

Shaun demonstrates how to make the terracotta cones known as Ollas.
Our Monday Gardening group learns how to make Olla, an ancient Chinese irrigation method. When the terracotta cones are filled with water, plants are watered in a gradual way that maximises water use and minimises unwanted weed growth. Most of all, it saves on watering so much …a wonderful labour saving measure.
The Olla in action. Here the Olla are irrigating Cavello Nero Kale in the large polytunnel. When a bottle this size is filled with water, no further manual watering is needed for over two weeks.

Ro Dama Farm CIC working alongside Food Troops in Redruth 2022

We are truly thrilled and honoured to be working with Food Troops CIC in Redruth. Food Troops does amazing highly effective community building work with local families offering access to free food, nutrition education and horticulture.
Food Troops run a food redistribution and community garden project in Redruth every Tuesday. The project has inherited two broken polytunnels that needed refixing. The Ro Dama Farm team has put up two polytunnels recently and so offered to help the Food Troops put theirs up in February 2022.

August 23 to 25 2021 was a significant weekend for Doing Good Locally CIC – The Wilderness Workshop Weekend 2021

The Wilderness Workshop Weekend featured a range of educational, recreational and well-being workshops in the delightful natural setting of Ro Dama Farm. After an English/Cornish translated welcome speech on the Ro Dama Plenn An Gwarry, the event was piped into being by our traditional Cornish piper, Robin. The evocative and inspiring sound of the pipes were followed by modern and traditional Cornish sea shanties from the St Agnes Boys Choir. As the Choir sang of the joys of the ‘Cornish Life’ , pyrotechnics artist Bindle brought magic and a sense of ancient ritual to the start of the event.

As the evening skies darkened Head Chef Luke demonstrated fish filleting Monk Fish on our open air barbecue made from an old wheel barrow and a washing machine drum. The fish was delicious and Luke was able to answer a blizzard of questions from aspiring master-chefs of all ages.

Head Chef Luke cooking Monk Fish on the Plen supported by two hungry learners.
The healing balm making workshop was fabulous. Kali demonstrated how to identify and forage Comfrey and Yarrow and then prepare and use this powerfully medicinal balm.
The afternoon Art Workshop used found natural objects such as leaves and twigs to create vibrant colourful prints on fabric. People of all ages took part. New friendships were forged in a joyous atmosphere of laughter and creativity.
The foraging workshop involved a walk around the site to discover a widely diverse cornucopia of delicious edible wild food. Kayleigh’s expert foraging knowledge led us to previously unknown tasty delights that are all around us and completely free of charge. We all learned so much from this excellent workshop experience.
Following the earlier performance of the resident St Agnes Boys Choir on the Plenn, DJ DBL played his late night disco set on the Full Moon hillside terrace.
We are keen to maintain and promote Cornish language and culture at our events. As well as bilingual signage across the site, our opening and closing gatherings were delivered in both languages.
Our resident Cornish Sea Shanty Choir entertains a small audience on the Plenn An Gwarry under an epic sky