CHAGFARM, the Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) enterprise set on reviving the local food economy, is recruiting like-minded people as it adds to its organic goat dairy, honey, goat, pork and chicken offering with a range of heritage skill day courses.

With support from the Devon Rural Skills Trust, Chagfarm will host an introduction to hedgelaying this Sunday (October 19) from 10am to 4pm in Chagford. Free and open to the public, the day will give visitors a hands-on experience of the creation and maintenance of hedges on Chagfarm.

Davon Friend, co-founder of Chagfarm, said: 'Chagfarm is more than just a farm as we want to encourage people to think twice about food production, food miles and animal welfare and show that there are viable alternatives to conventional land management practices.

'It's a big task but with regular help from volunteers who are genuinely interested in small-scale farming methods and share our passion for local food, we'll be better able to spread the word and workload going into 2015.'

In exchange for their time, volunteers will gain invaluable animal husbandry experience, countryside heritage skills including dry-stone walling, woodland management and artisan cheese-making knowledge.

Following a successful Crowdfunder campaign which raised over £15,000 in April 2014, brothers Davon and Sylvan Friend have since welcomed two new goat kids to the herd, carried out extensive repairs to the barn roof, built a milking parlour and started work on the farm's own cheese and meat caves.

With 55 members onboard, Chagfarm volunteers will be an integral part of a thriving community-supported micro dairy as it enters its third year of business.

For more information on the upcoming Hedgelaying Training Day on Sunday visit http://www.chagfarm.org/events/">www.chagfarm.org/events/