People & Place
Good things happen when the right people have room to bump into each other.
PEOPLE + PLACE
Fentenfenna is home to an ever-changing mixture of people, businesses, skills and ideas.
Some of us live here. Some work here. Some are building businesses. Others come to learn, gain experience, collaborate or lend a hand.
What makes it interesting isn't just who's here. It's what starts to happen between us.
A place to make things possible.
Fentenfenna is a working farm.
Land, buildings, workshops, growing space, equipment and workspace give people somewhere to turn ideas into something tangible.
But the most useful resource is often less obvious: other people.
Put different skills, experience and equipment in the same place and things begin to connect.
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Somewhere to work, grow, make, test and develop.
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Equipment, infrastructure and practical things that are difficult to access alone.
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Knowledge, skills, contacts, ideas, and someone who might know how to fix the thing you've just broken.
There's no typical Fentenfenna person.
The people and enterprises based here do very different things, and that's rather the point.
Who’s Here
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Wasted Apple
WE STOP GOOD APPLES GOING TO WASTE
We, at Wasted Apple, are building a movement of growers, gleaners, drinkers and donors, changing the system one bottle at a time. No good apple left behind. All funds raised from Wasted Apple supports the work delivered by Fentenfenna Farm CIC.
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Fallow Timberware
OUTDOOR TIMBER PRODUCTS
Outdoor timber products handmade in Cornwall. -
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Mushlove
MUSHROOM GROWER
Mushlove are a small family run, eco friendly indoor & outdoor, low-tech mushroom growing business. They grow and sell beautiful mushrooms, medicinal mushroom powders, and more. -
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Aquaculture
SEAWEED FERTILISER
Turning handpicked waste Cornish seaweed into innovative fertiliser and mulch products for a range of markets and sectors. -
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Harriets Plants
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Arbor Farm
TREE NURSERY
An independent, family-run business providing circular tree supply and planting solutions for Cornwall and the wider southwest. Alongside their tree nursery, they have successfully established an innovative agroforestry demonstration site showcasing trees as multi-functional cropping resources - making nature work!
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Newquay Orchard
BUILT BY THE COMMUNITY. FOR THE COMMUNITY
A multi-awarding winning and groundbreaking Newquay project that delivers social programmes, education and skills to thousands of people across mid-Cornwall.
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ELIZA BOX
MIXED MEDIA COLLAGE ARTIST
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Amelia Berkeley Design
GRAPHIC DESIGN & SCREENPRINTING
A graphic design, screenprinting and art studio that creates artwork and prints for clients alongside educational workshops.
MEET AMELIA
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Gokotta Film
FILM MAKER
An adventure film maker working with BBC Earth, National Geographic and Springwatch.
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Plymouth University
MUSHLOVE RESEARCH LAB
A new research lab working with MushLove on growing conditions, and increasing routes to employment within the agri-food sector.
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Cornwall College
DELIVERY PARTNER
One of our fantastic delivery partners, supporting young people to access the farm to gain life skills and work experience to enter the agri-food sector.
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GLEANING CORNWALL
SAVING FARM FOOD WASTE
The largest gleaning group in Europe, these incredible humans are part of Fentenfenna Food Hub, saving food from farms and getting it to people who need it.
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Fareshare Southwest
FOOD WASTE CHARITY
The Cornwall gateway for surplus food as part of Fentenfenna Food Hub. Distributing food to community groups and charities across Cornwall.
Meet some of our Fentenfenna community.
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Luke
FENTENFENNA FARM | WASTED APPLE
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Amelia
FENTENFENNA FARM | WASTED APPLE
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Ben
FENTENFENNA FARM | WASTED APPLE | FALLOW TIMBERWARE
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Sascha
FENTENFENNA FARM | WASTED APPLE | GROWN by NEWQUAY ORCHARD
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Martin & Amanda
MUSHLOVE
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Dan & Jack
AQUACULTURE
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Harriet
HARRIET’S PLANTS
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Steve & Adonica
ARBOR FARM
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Rosie
GROWN by NEWQUAY ORCHARD
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Mark
GROWN by NEWQUAY ORCHARD
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Mark
FENTENFENNA FARM CIC | WASTED APPLE
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Nadia
FENTENFENNA FARM CIC | WASTED APPLE
Sharing a place means people naturally start sharing other things too.
Someone has a machine somebody else needs. Someone knows how to solve a problem. A conversation turns into a piece of work. A tenant recommends another tenant. Skills cross over. Ideas get better.
We don't programme all of those collaborations.
Mostly, we create the conditions and let people get on with it.
Sometimes 1 + 1 makes something completely unexpected.
Some people come to Fentenfenna to work. Others come to learn, gain experience, build confidence, try something new or simply spend time somewhere useful.
We welcome people through work experience, internships, volunteering and partnerships with other organisations.
Being part of a real working place means there are lots of ways to contribute, and lots of things to discover you might be good at.
We've welcomed interns and work-experience placements from Newquay Orchard and are developing opportunities with other partners across Cornwall.
Not everyone arrives here knowing what comes next.
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Try real things in a real working environment.
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Spend longer developing skills and experience.
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Bring what you know, learn something new and be useful.
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Working with organisations to create the right opportunities for people.
A BIG THANK YOU TO OUR FUNDERS
