On Friday 9th March we were down at Cae Bodfach Community Orchard building a Living Willow Dome with assistance from the Willow Bank, Living Willow specalists since 1985. The Dome is adjacent to what will soon become a medicinal herb garden, which we started mapping out on the site a couple of months ago. Activities…
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Come along and get involved at Cae Bodfach Community Orchard this Friday 9th March. We will be holding a planting day and orchard MOT between 9.00am-3.30pm. We will also be joined by Steve Pickup, a living willow specialist, who will be constucting a living willow dome with us. There will also be two guided planting/mulching…
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Coming Soon! ‘One School One Planet Vol. 1 Climate. Education. Innovation.’ This short book chronicles the first year of the One School One Planet project, right from our initial theoretical and planning work through to our classroom based sessions at Llanfyllin High School. We have documented all of this in the hope that it might…
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Although there was a limited turn-out for our Wassail on Sunday – owing to the snow and ice – it nevertheless felt like an important event. Steve and Grace gently woke the Orchard from its winter slumber with warm cider. We hope this will be the start of a new tradition at the Orchard, which…
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The crisis deepens – US author J.H. Kunstler calls it ‘the long emergency,’ for that is surely what it is. Climate change, accelerating resource depletion and mass species extinctions underpin what we are experiencing as economic collapse. In reality, however, it is an ecological collapse. A certain kind of short-sightedness seems to have paralyzed humanity…
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We were down at the Cae Bodfach Community Orchard this morning thinking about the next stage of its development. Steve and Jack of One School One Planet were joined by Dewi Morris, from the Severn Rivers Trust, John Waddington, a recent Sector39 PDC graduate, and Grace Maycock, who has been awarded funding to add a…
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