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Filmmaker and photographer Andy Pilsbury and the Gaia Foundation have released " Llafur Ni ," a documentary about Pembrokeshire organic farmer Gerald Miles and his successful work, with farmer Iwan Evans Coedfadre and musician Owen Shiers , to bring Ceirch Du (black oats) back back to Wales.
Once common, black oats had become a difficult to find "lost crop" until Miles and Katie Hastings , regional coordinator for the Gaia Foundation’s UK Seed Sovereignty Programme, formed Llafur Ni, and recruited other farmers in Wales to work to bring them back.
'When Shiers first heard Miles was searching for black oats, he thought the description of the shiny grains sounded similar to a crop he had seen growing near his home in Machynlleth. The crop belonged to Evans, who Shiers knew through playing folk music. When Miles arrived in Machynlleth, for the first time in decades he saw black oats shining in the field. Hastings believes Evans was the very last farmer growing them. “We didn’t realise how rare we were,” says Evans.' Search for the holy grain: lost Welsh crops offer hope for future varieties
Welsh artist Miranda Whall visited Iwan Evans Coedfadre's farm to watch, and help, him and Owen Shiers thresh black oats, and you can hear an audio recording of that process.
"The man who breeds tens of thousands of leeches for the NHS from a tiny Welsh farm"
By gaabi, 2022-09-05
"Carl Peters-Bond, from Biopharm Leeches in Hendy, is one of just two FDA registered leech farmers in the world"
Read more - https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/man-who-breeds-tens-thousands-24922788
"Research commissioned by Hub Cymru Africa tracking the public’s engagement with global poverty and sustainable development has found that Wales is more engaged than the rest of the UK."
Read more - https://nation.cymru/news/new-research-confirms-wales-is-most-caring-nation-in-the-uk/
"Wales need just a single point from their showdown with Slovenia at the Cardiff City Stadium on Tuesday evening as they bid to reach the FIFA Women’s World Cup Play-Offs. Victory could see them make a dream trip down under for the finals in Australia next year."
Read more - https://www.prostinternational.com/2022/09/04/all-to-play-for-as-wales-fate-is-now-in-their-own-hands/
The newly created 'Welsh Riviera' beach that's suddenly the 'best in North Wales'
By gaabi, 2022-09-04
"In just two months, a 16ft high sandy beach has been created on the North Wales coast - and the locals are overjoyed"
Read more - https://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/newly-created-welsh-riviera-beach-24919889
"Lake Vyrnwy -- a reservoir in Powys, Wales -- has evaporated enough to expose the vestiges of the village Llanwddyn."
Read more at - https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/lake-vyrnwy-powys-wales-scli-intl-gbr/index.html
Good news from Wales! "Farmers and landowners in Wales to get £32m in grants to plant 86 million trees"
By gaabi, 2022-09-03
"86 million trees are set to be planted in Wales by the end of the decade as part of a pledge by the Welsh Government to combat the climate emergency. Farmers and landowners will receive around £32m worth of grants, Minister for Climate Change Julie James has announced."
Read the full article here on the UK Daily Post - https://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/farmers-landowners-wales-32m-grants-24913512
Team Unlimbited are two men in Swansea, Wales who are doing something lovely and amazing, which you can see below. You can find out more and be part of contributing to this incredible effort on their website here http://www.teamunlimbited.org/
AmeriCymru member Dr. J. Marshall Bevil has passed away this last week in Houston, Texas. Jack Bevil was a husband, father and grandfather. A Doctor of Musicology, forensic musicologist, composer and arranger and a teacher of music, for years he directed the Lovett Elementary school string orchestra and mentored other school orchestras to competitive performance, teaching hundreds of children, changing their lives and improving their communities.
Jack Bevil played and composed for the Welsh crwth and was kind enough to speak on and perform the crwth for us at the 2011 West Coast Eisteddfod. You can watch him performing, and speaking a little Welsh, at the event, below:
He was kind of enough to share audio files of his performance on the crwth with us all here:
Jack Bevil was an amazing addition to our community here on AmeriCymru, an artist, a scholar and a very decent human being who was proud of and worked to share his Welsh heritage. We are honored to have had the immense pleasure of meeting him and being the recipient of some of his generosity and kindness. There is no one else like him and he will be greatly missed.
Dr. Bevil's family have posted the following regarding his memorial service on his page on facebook:
"Jack's memorial arrangements are as follows.
"Friday 5pm-8pm: Visitation at Klein Funeral home. 9719 Wortham Blvd., Houston, TX 77065
"Saturday: 10am memorial service at Klein Funeral home.
"Saturday: 1:30pm short graveside ceremony at Anahuac Cemetary.
"In lieu of flowers, please make a donation to Camp Sweeney. It is a camp for diabetic children. I attended the camp every summer between ages 11 and 18 and it truly changed my life. Jack was very thankful a place like camp Sweeney existed and would like to pass that gift on to others. Follow the following link if you would like to donate. https://www.campsweeney.org/donate/
"Please contact Dafydd Bevil if you have any questions."
You can find his obituary here, on the site of the funeral home: http://www.kleinfh.com/m/?p=memorial&id=1920332
The Guardian reported that dinosaur bones found by amateur fossil hunters in a rock fall at the Glamoganshire Golf Club have been declared to be those of a new species -
http://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/jan/20/welsh-dinosaur-bones-confirmed-as-new-jurassic-species
Two fossil hunters looking for ichthyosaur fossils found the bones in a fall of boulders which had come out of the cliffs at Lavernock Point, in the Severn Estuary.
About 40% of the skeleton has been recovered, which is unusually complete for Jurassic-era fossils.
The dinosaur was a dog-sized, predatory carnivorce, and has been named Dracoraptor hanigani , meaning “dragon robber,” in honor of its resting place in Wales.
More stories:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/ancient-dragon-found-in-wales-named-dracoraptor-hanigani-a6825011.html
http://www.sci-news.com/paleontology/dracoraptor-hanigani-new-species-dinosaur-wales-03577.html
