Schumacher College is a progressive college for ecological studies offering postgraduate and undergraduate programmes, research degrees, short courses and a practical agroecology residency.
We focus on interactive and experiential education to help students develop the practical skills and strategic thinking required to face 21st century challenges and to instigate regenerative futures.
Our learning ethos is about participating, getting out into the field, into the kitchen, experiencing the world as a starting point for more in-depth enquiry. These experiences then inform anti-reductionist, whole systems thinking that can help to break down traditional disciplines and foster collaborations that reach towards a better understanding of the truth.
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live chats & open days
Get to know our College, our faculty and our programmes with these online and offline events.
flexible learning
There are so many ways to connect with our learning programmes to suit your lifestyle – including low-residency or part time routes, unaccredited modules, and blended learning models.
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Short Courses
Our courses celebrate the ethos of learning by doing and nature connection developed here at Schumacher College and across a century of arts learning on the Dartington estate. They unite ecology, craft skills and contemporary art with politics, philosophy and social justice, underpinned by a stronger sense of our place in the world. Our learning experiences are offered alongside short courses from the Dartington Arts School as part of a collaborative learning community.
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Unaccredited modules
If you love our degree programmes but can’t commit to a full course, it’s possible to select modules as unaccredited short courses.Â
Practical Residency In Agroecology
A rich, six month immersive programme learning how to grow food in a way that maintains and restores soil and ecosystem health.
virtually schumacher
– Ongoing series of live chats with course tutors
– Podcasts
– Video archive – including our long-running Earth Talks series
research at dartington
We offer research degrees in partnership with University of Westminster CREAM. Our researchers have expertise in a wide range of topics including arts practice-led research; animism; medieval literature; modernism; story and myth; arts, design and ecology; ecology and spirituality; Goethean science; regenerative economics, farming and food; social work with adults and children; and social enterprise.
latest news & blogs
Sit in silence to learn the secrets of the natural world
Engaged Ecology lecturer Andy Letcher has discovered much that is unfamiliar as he visits a Swedish forest while teaching. Yet he discovers the only way to understand it is by taking your place in that natural world and watching nature thrive around you.
Undergraduates return to Dartington for first time in 12 years
Teaching on the BSc Regenerative Food & Farming, Schumacher College’s first ever undergraduate degree, whcih began this week.
The pleasures and pains of running your own venture
Horticulture graduate Tim Dickens reflects on the last three years of his new venture, Teign Greens, a community supported agriculture (CSA) project that he runs with his wife Holly Budgen and ‘farm baby’ Theo.
watch: Soil To Supper – Sustainability at Schumacher
watch: our students in their own words
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Spring equinox is here! We often present labyrinth making as a communal experience on such occasions. But this spring (and the weather) invited a more solitary, meditative path, perhaps more poignant for it, and certainly imbued with that deeper sense of change, or the cycles of birth, life, death and return, that each new season reminds us of. All the same, a moment worth marking with gratitude in the learning community calendar here, as the growing season now really takes off in earnest.
📸 Harriet Knight
#equinox #spring #springequinox #dartington #schumachercollege
We have a selection of short courses coming up this summer that look at the intersection between writing and areas including running, dancing and the menopause.
Running & Writing | May 26-28
Join our director of learning, @climate_run, and acclaimed author @adharanand for this brilliant weekend workshop using running as a way to open up creativity.
Step Into Your Power | June 1-4
Back for a second year, this course led by poets @katrinanaomi and @thenaturetable - who is a lecturer on our Engaged Ecology masters programme - takes us into the woods to explore creative responses to the menopause.
Write:Dance | September 22-24
Join @kyra_norman_ and @katrinanaomi for a lively, thoughtful and nourishing weekend of dancing and writing, moving between the body and the page, and taking time to notice and find words for the sensations, images and stories that arise when we are in motion.
For more information and to book your spot, see the links in our bio or head to dartington.org/shortcourses
Why choose regenerative agriculture? We put this question to our undergraduate students recently and they came up with this nice mind map. It illustrates that it's more than a career choice; it's about society, wellness, care and active hope. We're working towards a positive future.
If sounds like it’s for you, join us in September!
Our next taster day is on 25 March!
📸 @aitkencaroline
#regenerativeagriculture #regenerativefarming #undergrad #headhearthands #youngfarmers #positivevibes
The Endling + post show discussion with @xrebellionuk
@strangefutures_theatre pose some difficult questions for all of us in this surreal and laugh-out-loud-funny show about extinction in the animal kingdom.
7.30pm, 16 March | Studio 1 | £12
dartington.org/whats-on
#theatre #livetheatre #extinction #ExtinctionRebellion #nature #dartington #totnes