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On the northern edge of the Cors Caron National Nature Reserve is a mixed livestock farm that proudly boasts a host of bird and wildlife species. To discover more, presenter Pauline Smith visits Cruglas Farm, in the village of Swyddffynnon, which is home to ornithologist, farmer and conservationist, Terry Mills. It's also home to Welsh Black cattle and around 500 breeding ewes plus.....145 different bird species, 26 types of butterflies, 9 species of bat and almost every large mammal you can think of! Terry has been managing the habitats on his farm to support existing and new wildlife as the climate changes. He stops short of calling it rewilding but believes wildlife and farming go hand in hand. The farm is now a blueprint for a collaboration with neighbouring farmers, who all border the Cors Caron National Nature Reserve. Run by the Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust, the Bro Cors Caron Sustainable Management Scheme, is a farmer led project, restoring hedgerows, putting in ponds and creating wildlife corridors to reverse local biodiversity declines whilst also allowing for productive and profitable pastoral farming.
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This term a project is underway to redesign and build a resilient food supply. Called Welsh Veg in Schools it's a pilot project, co-ordinated by Food Sense Wales, that aims to get more organically produced Welsh veg into primary school meals across Wales. Caroline Evans visits Dinas Powys primary school in the Vale of Glamorgan to hear how it's going down with the kids at lunchtime! We visit grower, Bonvilston Edge producing vegetables for the scheme and Castell Howell who distribute them to the schools.
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We live in a throw away society but if we're to tackle the climate emergency that we face our habits have to change. This week, we're in Pembrokeshire where communities are coming together to reduce household waste and instead - make do and mend! Pauline Smith visits the Big Repair Cafe at Scolton Manor where experts from across the county have come together to repair things like bikes; textiles; ceramics; electricals - you name it they'll find a way to fix it! We also visit the Library of Things in Haverfordwest where you can borrow items and drop into TYF Adventures in St David's where we hear how organisations are working closely together, as part of the Pembrokeshire Circle, to benefit the community
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Whether you're visiting a beach on the Gower Peninsula or a mountain lake in Gwynedd, it seems people in Wales are embracing the tradition of a sauna. As well as associated health benefits its a chance to be outdoors and at one with nature. There's been a proliferation of saunas, in mostly wooden huts, popping up across Wales particluarly at the coast or inland beauty spots but Country Focus drops into the Sawna Dyfi Project, between Aberdyfi and Machynleth offering a community sauna... in a converted horsebox!
