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All Year Round – Harvest Festival
Our next All Year round celebration will be on 28th September, 2-5pm at the Dyfed Permaculture Farm Trust. We will have an apple press for making juice, so bring along any spare apples you may have (and bottles to take … Continue reading
Posted in All Year Round, Events
Tagged apple juice, apple press, harvest, seasonal celebration
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Dyeing Wool with Plants
A Natural Dyeing Workshop led by Susan Martin was held at the Trust today, and an enjoyable event it was. Susan took us through the whole process of dyeing, including mordanting the wool so that the dyes will fix, collecting … Continue reading
Posted in Courses, Dyeing with Plants
Tagged dyers camomile, Lichen, natural dyeing, tansy
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Biodiversity at the Trust
The picture below is of a moth trap glowing at the bottom of one of the Trust’s hay meadows. This was set up on the evening of Monday 30th June and shone brightly for several hours through the night, looking … Continue reading
Shetland Yarn
We have a beautiful flock of Shetland and Hebridean sheep which graze on the land of the Dyfed Permaculture Farm Trust and form an integral part of the land management. We aim to manage the sheep as naturally as possible, … Continue reading
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Tagged buy welsh wool, dyeing workshop, natural, undyed, wool
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All Year Round – Summer Solstice
We had a lovely celebration for the Summer Solstice on 22nd August. We made herbal bees wax balms and paper aeroplanes, there was a fun obstacle course and a delicious bring and share afternoon tea. I also mowed a Labyrinth … Continue reading
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Tagged All Year Round, summer solstice, wildflower labyrinth
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All Year Round: Summer Solstice
Our next All Year Round will be for the Summer Solstice on Sunday 22nd June at Dyfed Permaculture Farm Trust at 2pm. We will be making summer bees wax herbal salves (please bring a small pot) and paper aeroplanes. There … Continue reading
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Tagged All Year Round, Celebration, Family, summer solstice
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First Scythe Course of the Season
We held our first Introductory Scythe Course of the season on Saturday. With such good grass growth this spring, the course was full with a waiting list as well! Here is a nice summery of the day by one of … Continue reading
Laburnum in Flower
The Laburnum in the Trust hedgerows is putting on it’s glorious annual floral display at the moment, as can be seen in the picture below. A Warré beehive can be seen to the left of the picture, very conveniently placed … Continue reading
Posted in Ecology
Tagged bees, coppice, flower, Laburunum, necter, poison, regeneration
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Celebrating May Day
We gathered once again on 28th April with the group All Year Round to celebrate May Day. First we made musical instruments out of recycled materials. There were flutes made of old plastic bottles, shakers made from beans and plastic … Continue reading
Dathlu Calan Mai
Daethon ni at ein gilydd unwaith eto ar yr wythfed ar hugain o Ebrill, gyda grwp All Year Round, i ddathlu Calan Mai. Yn cyntaf, ron ni’n gwneud offerynau mas o ddefnyddiau ail-gylchu. Roedd ffliwtiau yn cael eu gwneud o … Continue reading