Just 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…
Read MoreWe had a great day today down at the Cae Bodfach Community Orchard working with Year 10 Land Based Studies students from Llanfyllin High School. We were also joined by Dewi Morris of the Severn Rivers Trust and Tom the Apple Man for a day of planting trees, orchard tending, willow harvesting and hedge building….
Read MoreOn 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…
Read MoreCome 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…
Read MoreAlthough 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 MoreWe 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…
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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