The Bridgend Sausage and Mash club are on tour this week to sample some local sausage by Maddocks Kembrey Butchers in Maesteg being served with mustard mash and red onion gravy at Creation Cafe Blaengarw.
Creation Cafe is a great place to source local and delicious food at reasonable prices, but booking needed for Thursday's sausage & mash extravaganza. Please ring Ruth or Nicola to book your place 01656 353919. the Cafe is situated in Katie Street Blaengarw.
Happy British Sausage Week make sure they are British!
I was invited to the launch of the Bee Power song, the winning song about the plight of the Bumble Bee by Dolau primary school and Bridgend College students in the SMILE competition.
They have launched it to be downloaded to try and get this into the charts it is being well received and featuring in the media if you wish to see the making of the song visit their Facebook Page
SMILE (Students Motivate Innovative Learning through Enterprise.) 2011
2011 celebration day was upon us .Clare George is an IT Lecturer at Bridgend College and has received the ‘Most Enterprising Teacher Award 2009' approached me to help with a planting workshop for the day.
The theme this year was "the plight of the Bumble Bee" and details of the winning song by Dolau Primary will be published shortly it will be available to download from i tunes and we are hoping for a no 1 it is brilliant :-)
We watched the Video Logs and songs which were produced with the students of Bridgend college a great time was had by all by the looks of things.
There were 7 workshops and we were all kept busy in the sunshine at Kenfig Nature reserve. We made recycled newspaper pots in which we put some salad leaf seeds to grow, the pupils were very knowledgable about bees and their importance in life.This was a great opportunity to tell the pupils and teachers about Open Farm Sunday and I gave them the details of the farms in their areas this weekend.
Congratulations to Litchard Primary who made the winning Bumble Bee design that was built by the apprentices in the engineering Department of Bridgend college.
This now has a permanent place at Kenfig Nature Reserve and we hope it attracts more bees to the reserve ;-)
Also congratulations to Llanilltyd Fawr Primary that won the video log it was buzzing with entertainment
The Planting workshop was well attended and the schools recieved goodie bags to return to school with seeds for their gardens and learned how to make bee habitats from the other workshops.
Also the day would not have been complete without Clare on the Hooter
Our Welsh Farm had a brilliant day at the ESDGCconference we were one of many stalls promoting this subject at Tondu Primary School.
The Opening speech was made by James Fletcher, a climate change champion in 2008 from Pengam , Caerphilly . He is currently studying a BA in Politics and International Relations at Reading University. An inspirational speaker and we will watch this space for more news..............
a clip below from 2008
This was followed by Steve Lambert who shared some of his experiences of best practice as part of the Sustainable Development Team in BCBC. All this and more was shared with teachers at the end of the conference as a resource DVD.
Thanks to all the teachers who visited "Our Welsh Farm"in the IT suite and if anyone missed us and would like to get in touch please do.
Don't forget to visit Open Farm Sunday to find a farm near you. Grab your wellies and visit a Farm on June 12th 2011!
Our Welsh Farm is getting prepared for lambing lots happening in the next few months. Spring is on its way all sheep have been scanned and results good despite the cruel winter we have had.
We are hosting a french agricultural college group on the 9th of March they want to experience rural Wales. I hope they enjoy must get out the phrase book!!
Lambing will begin at the end of March and we will be lucky to have the expertise of a Bristol Uni Vet student learning from both sides will be a great experience.
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I am now Welsh coordinator for Open Farm Sunday an initiative of LEAF (Linking Environment And Farming).
LEAF brings farmers and consumers together to raise
awareness of how farmers are working in harmony with nature to produce good food with environmental care.
After the success of "Care for your Food We Do!" the theme this year is " Discover Life on British Farms" If you wish to find out where you can visit a farm on Open Farm Sunday June 12th 2011 please visit the website Open Farm Sunday . Ifyouare a farmer and would like to get involved or just thinking about it please attend one of theworkshops which are being held across the UK in March/April. Please have a look OFS workshops. Attending a workshop will give you all the hints and tips you need to host a success event andcould make up your mind!
Huge apologies to those that have missed us over the holidays but website is now back on line unfortunately no webcams at the moment as the electrics controlling the streaming have not dried out and been tested yet. we are working on it but please enjoy the rest of the site.
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