The herb garden at Cae Bodfach is actually called ‘Cae Ysbyti’. Cae Ysbyty means ‘hospital field’ and was a flower rich meadow field where sick animals would be taken to self medicate by grazing on the wild flowers. Grace Maycock working with Sector 39 had a vision for Bodfach’s Cae Ysbyty two years ago and…
Read MoreThe grass in the Community Forest garden at Cae Bodfach has grown up good and tall. We have been mowing paths through it every couple of weeks and the pathways are looking lovely. We purposefully don’t cut some areas as long grass is great for wildlife. It provides good habitat, food sources and shelter needed…
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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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“Environmental politics needs a new psychological sensitivity, a capacity to listen with the third ear for the passion and the longing that underlie many of our culture’s seemingly thoughtless ecolgocical habits. Those habits may be surrounded on all sides by mighty, often creditable, certainly exhilarating human motivations. Theodore Roszak, The Voice of the Earth, 1992,…
Read MoreJune 3rd 2017 saw the first meeting of Busoga High School’s new Permaculture Club! Students at the school have been working with members of the ‘Saving the Planet, One School at a Time’ team to develop a permaculture design for their own school and wider communities. These are precisely the same initiatives we want to…
Read MoreThe first images from our photography project with Year 10 students at Llanfyllin High School have come in, and they look great! The following represent just a portion of the images pupils have created, more will be uploaded in the coming weeks so keep your eyes peeled!
Read More“I am convinced that in the somber decades to come, the end of the world ‘as we know it’ is a distinct possibility…when this time comes (it has already come in my opinion) we will have a lot to learn from people whose world has already ended a long time ago – think of the…
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