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Mole Hills on Cae Mari Jones
Mole Hills on Cae Mari JonesI don’t think any scyther enjoys meeting a mole hill while mowing a good crop of hay. It interrupts the flow of your scythe strokes, and worse still, blunts your blade! We obviously have a
SABI Winter Meeting and How Scythes Travel By Bike
Phil’s bike, loaded with scythe equipment, in Norfolk Square, LondonPhil went to the Scythe Association of Britain and Ireland (SABI) winter meeting at the end of January, hosted by John Letts in Oxfordshire. With a mix of business and socialising,
Seed Swaps and Scythe Stall 2014
Due to unforeseen circumstances we will not be holding a seed swap at the National Woollen Museum this year. We will instead have a stand at the Carmarthen Seedy Saturday and Green Fair in St Peter’s Civic Hall, Saturday 8th
Grafting Apple Trees – collecting scion wood
Collecting graft material from an apple treeHere is Phil collecting material for grafting from an apple tree in our garden. The scions are stored with their butt ends in the ground to await grafting on to new root stock, either
Bare Root Apple Trees for Sale
Following on from last years grafting course at the Dyfed Permaculture Farm Trust, we have a small number of bare root apple trees for sale. All are on MM106 semi-vigorous rootstock and are varieties that have been selected to grow
Course Dates 2014
The New Year is here and we have started putting together our 2014 course programme. There are our popular Introductory Scythe Courses and a Peening Workshop as usual, and another Apple Tree Grafting Workshop following on from the sucess of
The Fruits of our Labour
Bramble the Hebridean ram enjoying some hand made hayAbove is a picture of our Hebridean ram tucking into a rack full of hay that we made in the summer. It is very satisfying to see the sheep enjoy the fruits
Colourful Waxcap Fungi found at Dyfed Permaculture Farm Trust
Clavaria zollingeri (Violet Coral) in Penboyr churchyardMy daughter and I have had an interest in Waxcaps (Hygrocebe spp) and associated fungi since we were lucky enough to discover an important site for them at Penboyr Churchyard (os ref: SN 360363),
Harvesting Bracken
Bracken Mowing – cut bracken to the left, uncut to the rightI have been using our trimming scythe to harvest bracken in one of the fields at the Trust. Mature bracken stalks are pretty tough, so I used a 65cm