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On the face of it, the Furzey Gardens Charitable Trust offers eight acres of peaceful woodland walks, exceptional trees and shrubs, lovely views across the Isle of Wight and a setting in Minstead, one of the area’s most interesting villages, unspoilt and essentially everything an English parish should be. But Furzey Gardens is also part of a much bigger endeavour. Its sister charity, the Minstead Training Project, provides residential care and horticultural training to young people with learning difficulties. Students from the project may frequently be seen working in the gardens or in the adjacent nursery, and in fact Furzey owes a great deal to the students, whose work on the land also helps them to learnthe skills they’ll need later in life. Plants raised by the students can be purchased from the Nursery Shop near the tea rooms.

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