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June 2016 Meeting: Herbs - Good Health from Garden and Hedgerow
Tuesday 28th June, 7:00pm to 9:00pm
Herb Garden Café
Free admittance includes hot drink and cake served at 7pm.
All are welcome!
We invite you to a talk by Sally Owen about the properties and value of many common “weeds” that you can find growing enthusiastically in gardens, hedgerows and wild places.
Sally's talk will cover the history of herbal medicines, give you a few ideas of ways you might use herbs in your home, and why you should welcome herbs into your garden.
About the speaker
Sally Owen is a retired member of the National Institute of Medical Herbalists. She practiced locally for 20 years and lives on a small holding near Builth Wells where she collects herb plants and encourages wild life.
Please download a poster and display locally to help promote the event
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May 2016 Meeting: Tools for Self Reliance Cymru
Tuesday 24th May, 7:00pm to 9:00pm
Herb Garden Café
Free admittance includes hot drink and cake served at 7pm.
All are welcome!
We invite you to a talk by TFSR Cymru Director and Trustee Ian Jones to hear about their work and how you can get involved.
TFSR Cymru collect unwanted hand tools and sewing machines from all over Wales. Volunteers refurbish them and send them to community groups in several African countries. They also sell Fair Trade tools made by Blacksmiths and Leather workers in Tanzania.
Over the past 30 years they have sent almost half a million tools to Africa.
They recycle tools of every description and nothing is wasted! Broken tools are repaired; blunt tools are sharpened; broken handles are burned in their wood burning stove in the winter to keep the volunteers warm, and unwanted metal sold as scrap. They have won awards from Powys Zero Waste and have a very low carbon footprint.
You can download a poster and a leaflet to help promote the event.
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April 2016 meeting: Jude Boutle, Llandrindod Town Champion
Herb Garden Café
Tuesday 26th April, 7:00pm to 9:00pm
Free admittance includes hot drink and cake served at 7pm. All are welcome!
Championing Llandrindod!
Last year Jude came to talk to the TLT about the 6 objectives the local Business Group had set for her. She is coming back for this meeting to talk to us about how those objectives fared, what was achieved and what is still to do.
The Welsh Government have just announced that the Llandrindod Wells Town Champion pilot scheme has been extended into a second year. Jude will be able to share with us the new set of objectives she has been set for 2016 and talk to us about what the future holds for the post, the initiatives the post has set in motion and indeed the town.
A poster to promote the meeting is available to download. Please print and display.
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March 2016 meeting: Natural Beekeeping
with Clive and Philippa Hedger
7.00pm, Tuesday 22nd March
Herb Garden Café
An illustrated Talk on Natural, Sustainable, Bee-Centred Beekeeping and Bee Guardianship
Clive and Philippa currently look after 14 colonies of naturally kept bees in Builth Road.
In this talk they will share the wisdom and insights gained from their own experience and stress the importance of having the 'right relationship' with the bees. The talk will also include practical information on first steps, equipment and skills needed to set up a hive and specific approaches to managing naturally kept hives. They believe the heart of this is supporting bees as pollinators rather than honey producers.
Over the last 8 years they have helped many people to set up and keep bees in their gardens, and given on going mentoring along their journey as beekeepers. They promote a simple and easy, low maintenance approach to natural beekeeping.
They created a Sussex based natural beekeeping group that still meets regularly every month, with over 100 members and In 2014 successfully set up a British Black Bee sanctuary as part of a Sussex school, with 8 hives and an area for the creation of a bee friendly garden.
They work specifically with promoting a world where bees can thrive.
Clive and Philippa will be happy to answer your questions.
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