World climate leader Greta Thunberg calls for global panic. A global crisis but one calling for a local response. It is clear our governments are paralyzed in the face of this challenge, absolutely unable to actually do anything seemingly other than water down agreements they still fail to fulfill. It takes a school pupil to…
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City by city, town by town and now whole counties are declaring that we are facing a terrifying challenge to avert climate disaster. The 30 year ‘long emergency has began. I have collected a series of images and posters on the trends we are facing and hopefully this is fueling a deepening realization of the…
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“if you can’t feed your country, you haven’t got a country“ Climate emergency, food security and community renewal, these things are all very closely linked. The heart of any strategy to combat the climate crisis must work to preserve and enhance diversity in a great many ways. But a healthy civilization sits at first on…
Read MoreA very interesting day at the river with Dewi Morris, Emyr Jones and the Llanfyllin High School Sixth Form. Today we learnt how to make ‘soft river revetments’ using bundles of brash, galvanized wire and sweet chestnut stakes. This low tech, low cost solution to improving degraded and eroding river banks has multiple benefits including…
Read MoreFacing the climate challenge is getting harder everyday Just a few images of our recent and on-going work in Wales and Uganda
Read MoreWe have been coppicing the willow hedge these past couple of weeks at Cae Bodfach. In permaculture we like to say “every element in a design must perform at least 3 functions.” We have had multi functional uses and yields from the willow hedge that was planted in Cae Bodfach only three years ago. It…
Read MoreJust wanted to say a BIG THANK YOU to Alan Hughes of D.A.Hughes Forestry (www.dahughesforestry.co.uk) for kindly donating a huge bag of good quality wood chip to the community orchard. We have re-mulched the dome and herb garden pathway with it. And another BIG THANK YOU to Merve and Ann for the loan of their…
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