Fun project really, thinking about potential signage at the institute garden. This logo idea is based on the icon for permaculture principle 1, ‘Observe and Interact’. The hole in the tree has become a face and fruits in the tree represent the surrounding community. And of course the river Cain at Cae Bodfach is also…
Author: Steven Jones
this is a very important lecture and an insight into the emerging new paradigm
So this is pre-covid and pre-2019 election, so it is dated in ways, but actually he makes the clear point, re: Covid, dont make predictions because know knows what is going to happen. There is a much longer arking story that is important which has remained consisntant over 150 – 200 years of modern forms…
New reality
Has it dawned on you yet? The world we took for granted no longer exists and is not coming back. The virus is not an anomaly in an otherwise healthy world it is the signal of the collapse of the globalized neo-liberal free market dream. It always was a fragile system, it doesn’t matter which…
A week of panic & uncertainty
We have known for years that our complex interconnected global community, with just in time delivery and lean stocking is vulnerable to significant disruption. As we continue to witness climate breakdown it has felt important for us to focus on developing a stronger local-food economy with more diversity and shorter supply lines. The Covid virus…
Llanfyllin institute garden wins national gardens scheme award
Its an underused space behind the institute building that previously they paid to have strimmed and trimmed year to keep it tidy. Now it is on its way to being a focal point for community growing for the Tanat & Cain valley community and is paying its own rent back to the institute instead of…
Share energy
Community owned and run energy schemes offer huge advantages, not least a chance for communities to invest in energy schemes that will enable sustainable ethical investment into infrastructure that we will all benefit from. It also decentralizes the planning a implementation of energy schemes, all good in terms of increasing resilience.

Horticulture project
BRACE horticulture are creating a headquarters for community growing in Llanfyllin
Agenda item for next meeting
Constitution: We hope the group is ready to agree on our constitution. This will help define the group, allow us to move forward and to apply for funding. The garden group met with PAVO officer George Stroud today who can advise us on how to develop our constitution as we evolve and to help us…