RACHEL’S, Wales’ premium organic dairy producer, has teamed up with the Penarth Times and Barry & District News to offer five schools the chance to win gardening goodies, including growing boxes, plants and tools. As part of its ongoing work with the …
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Markets slammed for ‘appalling’ TB biosecurity failures
APPALLING biosecurity lapses by farmers have been filmed at three Welsh livestock markets in an area suffering from widespread TB infections. As a result animal protection group Viva! – which says it has thousands of supporters in Wales – is urging the …
No rural affairs minister in new Welsh Cabinet
“It is as though he has forgotten the lesson he learnt during the foot and mouth crisis, the growing food production and marketing sector in Wales together with the importance of ensuring food security in future years,” he said. …
Anti-pylon crowds to march on Welsh Assembly
Hundreds of campaigners fighting multi-million pound plans which may see hundreds of pylons and a substation built in Mid Wales will march on the Welsh Assembly on May 24. The date was revealed today by Montgomeryshire MP Glyn Davies, who is urging as …
Jane Davidson: ‘It’s about living within environmental limits’
“When we look at food growing and allotments, can we encourage local authorities to create more allotment spaces? The work through Keep Wales Tidy and Tidy Towns has created the equivalent of 1000 new allotments.” But it’s not all about encouraging …
Council food waste ‘misuse’ fines
People are facing fines of £100 under new council rules for putting food scraps in general rubbish wheelie bins. Blaenau Gwent Council said it was a response to plans by the Welsh Assembly Government to fine local authorities for not meeting recycling …
Foragers hail arrival of wild food season
… Sally Williams and Steve Dubé look at what free natural delights Wales has to offer AUTUMN may be harvest season for traditional crops – but spring is the perfect time to start gathering nature’s free food, according to Welsh foragers. …
New Assembly Government ‘must show leadership’ on renewable energy
… when identifying opportunities for local wind farm schemes, the organisation says. RenewableUK Cymru is also calling for a detailed offshore wind delivery plan to ensure that the Welsh economy fully benefits from the growth in this technology. …
Llangattock blazes the trail to a greener way of life
A typically pretty east Powys village is the setting for one of the most exciting community transition projects in Wales. What makes Llangattock Green Valleys so impressive is the breadth of vision of the scheme, …
Rural stress projects look for more Assembly cash
A RURAL stress initiative that reaches out to farmers at livestock markets has completed its first phase. Rural Support Wales (RSW), which is co-ordinated by the Institute of Rural Health, Newtown, has run for six years. …
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