The Moseley Family

Plot 3

It has always been our ambition to live self- sufficiently and to lessen our carbon footprint. An ideal way to do this is to live as part of an eco village. If successful in our planning application, we wish to keep poultry for meat and eggs, grow flax and make linen products for sale, grow herbs for personal use and to sell at a farmers market along with other fruit, vegetables and preserves. Dogwood, willow and other suitable plants will be grown in order to create utensils for our family and to sell any surplus goods at market. Our longer term aim would be to offer holistic therapies to the wider community with the added service of making specific remedies for our clients. As a qualified therapist, Katherine already has the right to make such remedies for clients that she treats and holds the correct insurance.

We are a family of 3 (2 adults and 1 child) who hope to occupy house 3 of the eco terrace. At present we live at the end of a terrace in Mid Cornwall. At home we are organic gardeners with experience of growing fruit and vegetables on our allotment in St Austell. We have experience of wine making, making fruit cordials, preserves such as jams, jellies and chutneys (which I have already sold through the WI at local markets), fruit and herb vinegars, cakes and bread making. We make use of the free food sources found locally in hedgerows, woodland and shellfish etc from the beach as we live by the sea. We also collect wood from around our area to help with the heating of our house.

Illustrative layout, plot 3

Steve is a qualified glazier and is also active in creating objects from locally sourced materials. He has had first aid training and is also a Marine Mammal Medic for BDMLR (British Divers Marine Life Rescue). He is a keen wildlife photographer and hopes to pursue this further at Lammas and use it to show others the journey that we are making and document our lives at Lammas. Katherine also has first aid training through the Red Cross and is an active Marine Mammal Medic with BDMLR. When selling jams with the WI a health and hygiene certificate was required. This is something that Katherine would need to renew and she intends to do so in order that her goods can be sold for revenue at a local market. Katherine has a degree in Design and Media Management, an HND in Business and Finance and a PGCE in primary education. She has been working as a teacher for 8 years. Katherine is a qualified Holistic Therapist and a qualified lecturer in this field. She is a fully paid member of the FHT and practices from home.

Katherine has always had a strong interest in the environment and while at university won the Mars Berkshire Award for the environment for the energy efficiency campaign that she organised along with another colleague.

Katherine spent her childhood on a smallholding in Berkshire with her parents and has experience of animal husbandry and growing crops in order to be self sufficient.

Katherine and Steve have a daughter, Morgan Angharad, who is two years old. As such she is dependant on her parents and is unable to make any valid contributions at present. They foresee her becoming an active member not only of the Lammas community but of the wider community. They hope to enrol her in the local school and fully embrace the Welsh language and the challenge of learning it. Morgan will be taught in Welsh at the local school in KS1 and 2. Katherine and Steve fully intend to enrol in an adult Welsh language programme so that they can become fluent in the native language.

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