It is difficult to describe the numbness I felt on learning that whilst I was celebrating the Lammas project with recent posts on three of the smallholdings in the project, one of the nine homes at Tir-y-Gafel was being raised to the ground in a ferocious fire. To read more click on the post title or image.

As the sun’s embers gradually faded, there was time on my visit to the Lammas project in Pembrokeshire for another homestead plot to be explored before nightfall. This time it belonged to Melissa Holloway and husband. To read more click on the post title or image.

Raspberry picking in glorious afternoon sunshine, a massive – and beautiful – cob-built greenhouse and willow all around, growing, cut, soaking, and woven! Just a few of the ingredients of a magical few hours at Plas Heyg, the smallholding where Cassie and Nigel Lishman live in Pembrokeshire. To read more click on the post title or image.

Centred on the small village of Tir y Gafel, located in north Pembrokeshire, the Lammas project has been created to pioneer a visionary model for living on the land through which its participants are enabled to explore what it is to live a one-planet lifestyle. In so doing it demonstrates that alternatives to current mainstream are possible here and now. To read more click on the post title or image.

Al Bryer and his partner, Lucy, took on the creation of CwmCou Organics back in 2013. Its a small farm of seventeen acres of pasture and woodland outside Cwmcou village, and a couple of miles from Newcastle Emlyn. In other words, a long way in many ways from anywhere but its another example of what can be done when land is reasonably priced and there is a responsive community around you To read more click on the post title or image.

Swapping a geographically local market of some 2 to 3 million for the 20-odd thousand who live in a small town in west Wales, at first sight doest make any sense. But that’s just what Adam York did when he moved to Manchester to Cardigan to set up Glebelands Market Garden. To read more click on the post title or image.

Gerald Miles farms land just north of St David’s on the extreme western edge of Wales. He used to be a dairy farmer, but when diminishing returns forced his son to make his living away from the farm, Gerald decided to set up a Community Supported Agriculture scheme offering organic vegetables to the people of St David’s. Now, that CSA is sufficiently robust for Carwyn to return to manage it! To read more click on the post title or image.