A WELSH hill farm looks set to become a solar park pumping out “green” electricity. Newbridge farmer Tom Griffiths originally asked Caerphilly council planners for permission for a total of 2232 solar panels to cover …
Organic Wales Articles
Protesters out in force at pylons plan
CPRW director Peter Ogden said: “We warned everyone more than five years ago that this would happen, when the Assembly Government cherry-picked massive areas of Mid Wales uplands and proposed they were ripe for wind farm development. …
Wales’ Recycling Rate Reaches 45 Percent
We need to continue developing the sort of services – such as weekly food waste collections – that will give us the best chance of reaching this ambition….
Marge’s Coleslaw
Have you ever heard the phrase ‘the clue is in the name’? The word coleslaw means ‘cabbage salad’ da DA! Right my attempt at QI over, you may be wondering why you would want to make your own coleslaw when you can just buy it from a shop. The fact is homemade coleslaw is a treat especially when made from organic ingredients, and not like nasty bits of old cabbage in horrid tangified wallpaper paste
Go ahead for £2bn offshore windfarm off North Wales coast
Construction work will begin next year on one of the largest offshore windfarms in the world, the two billion pound Gwynt y Môr windfarm, it has been announced.
Hogweed
Although by now the wild mushroom harvest is in full swing, hogweed makes a delicious starter for a fungal omelette, steamed and served with lashings of melted butter…
Roe Deer
Britain has six species of deer, but only two are truly native. Today red deer are effectively confined to Scotland and isolated parts of the West Country, but roe are not just common locally but positively in plague proportions in many areas.
Barn Owl
Until recently barn owls seemed to be in an inexorable decline. During the ‘30s there were around 12,000 pairs, but the loss of rough pasture and nest sites, coupled with pesticides and increased motor traffic had reduced numbers to 3,800 by the early ’90s. Matters were not helped by the fact that the owls are at the limit of their range in Britain and a series of bad winters in the late ‘70s and early ‘80s hit them hard. Now the slide appears to have been halted, with a small increase recorded for the first time.
Bats
One of the earliest signs of spring – but undoubtedly one of the least noticed – is the emergence of bats from their winter hibernation. These are probably our least known and most poorly understood mammals. Most people are barely aware of their existence, yet with 16 British species they are our commonest mammal family.
Fieldfares
In the depths of winter, when days last barely eight hours, spring seems a very long way away. The bare branches and lack of birdsong only compounds the sense of an unwelcoming landscape, but in fact there is plenty to celebrate.
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