This versatile, fast growing plant loves wet conditions, full sunlight and fertile soil. Its tough and can survive in thinner soils and drier places but it thrives along river banks and is adapted to to such environments. Although very supple and bendy willow is also brittle, so in a flood branches break off sparing the…
Read MoreOne School One Planet (OSOP) is a project with a global vision. Climate change is a global phenomenon, and our central theme is that the mainstream school curriculum needs to change. We are failing to prepare pupils for what is coming. If the Paris Climate Agreement is anything to go by (it turns out to…
Read MoreIn this episode we report back on two days of work with staff and students of Llanfyllin High School. The first section comprises Steve’s introductory talk to the students on fruit tree guilds, followed by discussions with students learning how to scythe. We then planted a fruit tree guild at the High School with a…
Read MoreThis week Steve and Jack are back at Cae Bodfach Community Orchard to catch up with conservation educator Dewi Morris and Emyr Jones, leader of the GCSE Land-Based Studies course at Llanfyllin High School. Dewi explains how the community orchard has developed over the last four years and why Afon Cain is so important to…
Read MoreWe are pleased to announce the release of the first episode of the One School One Planet Podcast! The Podcast will host conversations on the fertile edges of permaculture, ecology and education. In the first episode Steve Jones and Jack Hunter discuss the work they are doing at Cae Bodfach Community Orchard with students from…
Read MoreAnother write-up about the project appeared in the March 23rd 2018 edition of the Powys County Times on page 20. It is exactly the same text as appeared in the Advertizer, but at least the story is getting out! To download the article Click Here.
Read MoreThe above article appeared in the Oswestry and Border Counties Advertizer, Tuesday 27th March 2018, p. 18. To downloade CLICK HERE.
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