Upper Lodge Farming Project: develop independent living, social skills and preparing for employment

Upper Lodge Farming Project is a social enterprise offering a therapeutic care farming service to those wishing to gain experience working and learning on a small farm with animals and in horticulture. 

Supporting: 

• Young adults with learning difficulties/disabilities
• Young people and adults with mental health difficulties
• Young people who are excluded or not accessing mainstream education

The Project is situated on a 45-acre working farm in Padworth, West Berkshire, less than 2 miles from the A4 and Aldermaston Station. The farm consists of fields and pasture that are home to a wide range of farm animals, a large polytunnel, vegetable beds and woodlands.

Some of the work we do at the project:

• Feeding, cleaning, handling and checking farm animals
• Collecting and counting eggs
• Growing vegetables and plants in our garden beds and Polytunnel.
• Pest control, sowing seeds, weeding , harvesting and preparing vegetables for sale
• Processing produce, jam making, selling produce
• Fencing, general farm and building maintenance
• Wildlife, environmental conservation
• Coppicing, clearing and green woodworking in our woods