Our neighbours at Wilder Pentwyn are creating a model farm as a blueprint for farms of the future, that creates space for wildlife alongside produce and livestock.
In October 2021 Radnorshire Wildlife Trust (RWT) completed the purchase of a 164- acre farm, Pentwyn, at Llanbister Road, Powys.
“Radnorshire Wildlife Trust wants Pentwyn to become a Wilder Pentwyn, but we also want it to be a farm. A new model farm for the future.”
“With high welfare, low input meat being produced from the stock, and vegetables and maybe fruit and nuts produced from the market gardening…”
“…time and space for grassland to become scrub and then back again as large cattle, pigs and perhaps ponies or goats move through the farm at varying low densities, off-and-on (pulse grazing) over time.”
“Pentwyn is a farm where nature is the lead crop. There will be cover for shelter and nesting. And food – seeds and insects for birds, and grass and flowers providing nectar and pollen and caterpillar and larval food. This cover won’t be removed over winter either. Wildlife, especially insects on annual lifecycles, need continuity of cover and structure: warm short turf, cooling long grass, or areas out the wind.”
“Most of all we want to see nature increase on the land, draw people in, give them a sense of well-being, moments of wonder and hope. Hope for all our futures.”