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…
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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.
pontbren
A farmer-led approach to sustainable land management in the uplands The Pontbren Project is an innovative approach to using woodland management and tree planting to improve the efficiency of upland livestock farming, led by a group of neighbouring farmers in mid-Wales. They went on to develop new on-farm uses for woodland products, and when it…
rumblings in the garden
We are hugely excited to have been offered the space behind the public institute in Llanfyllin as a space to create a community growing hub. We are very inspired by the work in Newtown at the Cultivate centre and we want to use a similar process that was used to design and set that in…