Half Moon Community CIC

17/05/2026

🌿 Half Moon Community Land Day – Saturday 23rd 🌿

Our next Community Land Day is coming up next Saturday — a chance to come together for a few hours of hands-on care for the field and the wider ecosystem around it.

Together we’ll be harvesting hazel, restoring hedgerows, creating wildlife habitat, processing wood, and tending the stream. It’s a beautiful opportunity to learn practical land skills, spend time outdoors, and contribute to the ongoing stewardship of this special place.

There’ll also be plenty of time to connect, share stories, and enjoy lunch with fellow land-lovers. 🍂✨

🕙 Schedule
10am — Arrivals & welcome
10:15am — Working together on the land
11:30am — Tea & cuppa break ☕
12pm — Other seasonal jobs around the field
1pm — Shared lunch
2pm — Finish

Everyone is welcome — just bring sturdy shoes, weather-appropriate clothing, and a willingness to get your hands in the earth. 🌱

05/05/2026

🌿 Join Our Half Moon Community Garden 🌿

We’re looking for new members to join our growing (and glowing!) biodynamic veg project at Half Moon Field, near Tigley.

Come be part of a small, friendly group gathering weekly on Sunday mornings for a few hours of hands-in-the-earth growing. Seeds are already sprouting, and the garden is coming to life—this is the perfect moment to step in.

✨ What you can expect:
🌱 Learn how to grow your own food and develop your skills
🧑‍🌾 Work alongside others to create a flourishing vegetable garden
🌼 Spend meaningful time outdoors in a beautiful setting
🍵 Share tea, lunch, and connection with like-minded people
🥕 Take home fresh, seasonal veg
🌍 Build a real relationship with the land and its rhythms

Whether you’re a complete beginner or already experienced, you’re very welcome.

💌 If this calls you, get in touch to join us this season.

07/04/2026

🍃 Half Moon Community Land Day – Saturday 18th April 🍃

This will be our first community day after the Spring Equinox, and the land is fully awakened to the vibrancy of the season.

Come along from 10am to get involved in a range of seasonal tasks. It’s a beautiful opportunity to connect, contribute, and spend time outdoors in good company. Tea and lunch provided.

Whether you join for a few hours or stay the day, everyone is welcome. Bring weather-appropriate clothing, sturdy shoes, and a willingness to get your hands in the earth. 🌱✨

17/03/2026

🌿 Young Nature Watchers – Spring Sessions 🌿

A beautiful, hands-on opportunity for young people (10+) to connect with nature, learn real conservation skills, and be part of something meaningful at Half Moon Field.

📅 Saturday 21st March, 2pm
We’ll be checking our bird boxes to observe nest building, eggs, or early feeding activity, and spending time at the comfrey patch identifying different bumblebees.

📅 Saturday 4th April, 2pm
By now, we hope to see birds actively feeding their chicks — we’ll observe and even count feeding visits to understand their daily patterns.

✨ Family-friendly, outdoors, and rooted in curiosity and care for the land.

🕑 Arrive from 2pm | Activities 2:15–3:15pm | Finish 3:30pm

👨‍👩‍👧 Children must be accompanied by a parent/guardian

If your child would love to get involved, please RSVP on the link below! 🌱🕊️🐝

https://dandelion.events/e/r8g1l

09/03/2026

Half Moon welcomed local nature lovers at the weekend for the first of our Wild About Devon - Supporting Community Action for Nature Young Nature Watchers series of Spring nature connection events for children and teens at Half Moon Field.

11 local children and adults got together to monitor our newly installed Woodstone bird boxes and the surrounding hedges and copses for early season bird action. Recorded sightings included great t**s, wrens and robins. Bird calls identified included pipits, firecrest and an elusive Bidwell Brook kingfisher!

We also hunted for last year's harvest mouse and vole nests amongst the tussocks - with children finding examples of both during the afternoon, with input from our resident harvest mouse expert Carol Asuray. More events are planned for later in the Spring, where local children will be recording who nests in the boxes. Stay tuned for more details.

Warm thanks to Devon Communities Together for funding this project!

24/02/2026

🌿 Wild About Devon – Young Nature Watchers at Half Moon Field 🌿

We’re excited to launch a new series of hands-on nature connection events for young people (ages 10+), set in the beautiful Half Moon field just outside Dartington.

This project invites children and teens to actively take part in real conservation work while deepening their relationship with the natural world. It’s family-friendly, outdoors, and rooted in curiosity, care, and community.

✨ What we’ll be doing together:

Monitoring our bird boxes through the spring — observing nest building, eggs, and (hopefully!) chicks.

Searching for harvest mouse nests and contributing data to the Southwest Harvest Mouse Survey, feeding into the national citizen science database.

Learning how to notice, record, and protect the wildlife around us.

✨ Upcoming sessions (ages 10+, parent/guardian required):

📅 Saturday 7th March, 2:30pm
• First check of the bird boxes — early nest activity
• Harvest mouse nest survey

📅 Saturday 21st March, 2:30pm
• Follow-up bird box investigation — nest building, eggs, or sitting birds

📅 Saturday 4th April, 2:30pm
• Watching adults feed chicks — counting feeding visits to understand their daily activity

🕑 Schedule for each session:
• Arrivals & welcome: 2:00pm
• Conservation activities: 2:15–3:15pm
• Close: 3:30pm

This is a wonderful opportunity for young people to get their hands in the earth, develop real ecological skills, and feel part of something meaningful.

If your child would like to join our Young Nature Watchers group, please rsvp on the link below to register your interest. 🌱🦋🐭

https://dandelion.events/e/r0c6v

21/02/2026

✨ Imbolc Blessings from Half Moon Community ✨
On the 31st of January, we gathered to welcome the first stirrings of spring, that quiet yet powerful moment when the earth begins to wake beneath our feet.

Together we lit our Imbolc fire spiral, its glowing path mirroring the returning light and the gentle re-awakening of the land. Standing around the flames, we offered our intentions for the season ahead: renewal, clarity, creativity, and the courage to grow in new directions.

Thank you to everyone who joined, shared stories, sowed seeds, and brought their warmth to the celebration.
Here’s to longer days, fertile soil, and the slow unfurling of spring. 🌱✨

21/02/2026

Cold fingers, warm hearts at Half Moon Field community day last 17th of January ❄️💚
We came together to build a dead hedge in the orchard with willow and hazel— a simple, beautiful structure that will give refuge to insects and wildlife (and a bit more interest for our roaming chickens!) 🌿🐓✨

13/02/2026

We were blessed to have Devon Wildlife Trust'S Lynne Kenderdine visit the Field in January to advise on how we can best enhance habitats for our non-human inhabitants, plus manage the copious water on the land in ways that best support biodiversity across the whole site. Thanks Lynne!!

13/02/2026

Looking forward to the Sustainable South Brent Seed Swap tomorrow!

Just one week to go now till this big opportunity to get yourself ready for spring, with seeds, gardening advice, trees and a chance to chat to other gardeners over tea and home-made cake.