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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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…
Read MoreThe orchard-visiting Wassail Help us celebrate the seasons and to look forward to 2018 harvest and more. Cae Bodfach is OUR community orchard and recreation space and we have been working on it since 2013 to bring a heart and community space to Llanfyllin. We will be rattling pots and pans, making some noise, speaking…
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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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It all began back in 2014 http://www.get-growing.org.uk/?cat=21 Cwm Harry’s Get-Growing project won some national lottery resources for us to start a community orchard garden in Llanfyllin. It is now known as Cae Bodfach and each year since we have added to it. 80m of willow coppice for examples, 60 heritage fruit trees and more are…
Read MoreWe have just returned from a great meeting at the Wetlands in Llanfyllin with Cathy Preston of the Field Studies Council’s Growing Confidence Project and Adrian Pickles, Head of the Preston Monford Centre, seeking to build links between our projects. We talked through our work with Llanfyllin High School and our proposed programme for bringing…
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