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Compost Toilet Building Workshop – Gweithdy Adeiladu Toiledau Compost
We are delighted to be welcoming Richard Sylvan back to the farm to lead a Compost Toilet Building Workshop on 11th and 12th May 2024 In 2019 Richard led the design and build of our beautiful roundhouse. Richard, center-front, with … Continue reading
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Compost Toilet Building Workshop 2021
After a years pause, we are back and ready for action. Come and help us build a Wheelchair Accessible Compost Toilet! During the course you will: Help create a small timber framed building and compost toilet infrastructure, using sustainable and … Continue reading
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Eve’s Garden
A well known tenet of permaculture is ‘earth care/ people care/ fair share’ This means that a) we need to look after our beloved planet and all its diversity, species and soil – b) look after our human inner and outer world … Continue reading
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Apple Tree Grafting Workshop
Yesterday we ran our second Apple Tree Grafting Workshop. The day started off with Phil looking at the reasons we choose to graft apple trees onto different root stocks. He went on to look at the principles of grafting, including … Continue reading
Posted in Apple tree grafting, Permaculture
Tagged apple tree, grafting, Wales, welsh apple varieties, workshop
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Establishing Yellow Rattle, Rhinanthus minor
Spring is well underway, the grass is growing and the Yellow Rattle Rhinanthus minor is germinating in the hay meadows. It is also germinating in profusion in many of the areas that we mulched with grass and hay from Cae … Continue reading
Posted in Ecology, Hay, Land Management, Permaculture
Tagged establish, mulch, Rhinanthus minor, wild flower meadow, Yellow Rattle
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Making our own Laburnum fence posts
We are gradually working towards using hedges as the stock proof boundaries of the Trust’s fields, both through an ongoing programme of laying and restoring existing hedges and by planting new ones. While this work is in progress we need … Continue reading
Posted in Land Management, Permaculture
Tagged fence post, laburnum, make your own fence posts
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February Workday – Ram Pump Preperations
The February Workday was dedicated to carrying out some preparation work ahead of installation of a Ram Pump from a spring on the Trust land to pump water to the top of the farm. Ram pumps are ingenious devices that … Continue reading
Posted in Permaculture, Volunteer Workdays
Tagged ram pump, spring, using a bunyip, volunteer workday
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Bare Root Apple Trees for Sale
Following on from last years grafting course at the Dyfed Permaculture Farm Trust, we have a small number of bare root apple trees for sale. All are on MM106 semi-vigorous rootstock and are varieties that have been selected to grow … Continue reading
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Tagged apple tree, buy, grafting, Wales, workshop
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Coppicing Laburnum on a Volunteer Workday
The laburnum stools we are coppicing. A volunteer using the felling axe. Eight of us gathered on Sunday 13th October for our Volunteer Workday. The main task of the day was to begin coppicing some Laburnums. All of the work … Continue reading
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Tagged coppice, laburnum, use of laburnum, volunteer, Wales, workday
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