It is of course all about what comes next and we are working on that. I did want to reflect for a moment though on the huge distance we have covered over the last three years on the One School One Planet proejct. Watch this space for emerging plans and we are keen to hear…
Read MoreThanks to Angela and team for making us welcome yesterday and showing us around. Lots of great ideas to bring home and we have invited them to come and see us in Cae Bodfach later this summer The Gerddi Bro Ddyfi team are cultivating spaces around the town, especially for wildlife and bio-diversity and making…
Read MoreStatement for general releas We are in the midst of a planetary mass extinction event, driven by human actions and sustained by unjust social structures and political institutions. Climate disruption, biodiversity loss, and the collapse of ecosystems now threaten the survival of much of life on Earth, including, potentially, human life. While lament and repentance…
Read MoreVolunteer Hanna has been learning about plant guilds and especially the role of comfrey in the Cae Bodfach forest garden. We hold regular volunteer days at the garden, usually on Tuesday mornings, it can vary due to the weather. This week at Cae Bodfach we divided some comfrey plants and potted them up to plant…
Read MoreAs part of our community engagement programme and building on the work of the BRACE Llanfyllin group Steve Jones will be presenting a slideshow and talk on the history of Cwm Harry community growing aspirations that led eventually to the creation of the Cultivate centre. What began from very humble origins has helped change the…
Read MoreA time of new beginnings, trees full of blossom, the new season’s growth shoots forth. At a time when we have never heard starker warnings of impending ecological catastrophe it feels like Mayday in more than one way. Thanks to Arts Connection and all the great folk to Llanfyllin for coming together to create a…
Read MoreMycelium links every together, it is an ecosystems engineer Paul Stamets What does the word Mycorrhizae Mean? “Mycor” is the Latin word for ‘fungus’, and “rhizae” means “roots”. So, the term Mycorrhizae perfectly describes the mutually beneficial relationship between a plant and the specialized fungi that support its roots in healthy, undisturbed soil ecology. Both…
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