Home Composting
Home composting is key to sustainable and organic gardening, as well as being the ideal way to recycle waste. CAT’s gardeners have tried out all sorts of composting methods over…
Nature and Growing
Nature and Growing
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Saving Water in the Garden
As we start to feel the effects of climate change, droughts are expected to become more common in the UK. Hosepipe bans are therefore likely in many areas, to reduce…
The Edible Forest Garden
A forest garden takes as its model the most wonderfully healthy and productive organic system in Britain – the deciduous woodland. It consists of trees and shrubs, with bushes below…
Organic Gardening
To look at the thriving gardens at CAT it is hard to imagine that 50 years ago the site was mostly bare slate waste. Hard work and a lot of…
Sustainable Woodland Management
Sustainably managed woodland can be both productive and beneficial to the environment. Broadleaf woodlands full of native species create an important habitat for a wide range of wildlife, the woods…
Growing Year-Round
Traditionally, summer is salad season, and root vegetables are the main winter crop. However, with a little planning you can extend the growing season and plant for harvests of fresh…
5th December 2023 Next in our series looking at themes and topics explored by students on CAT Masters degrees, Dr Rebecca Kent introduces why we teach soil health assessment and looks at some…
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28th April 2023 Hannah Genders Boyd introduces the cross-disciplinary CHERISH project, aiming to raise awareness and understanding of the impacts of climate change on the rich cultural heritage of the coasts of Wales…
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16th December 2022 The innovative Pathways to Farming training programme, run by community organisation Mach Maethlon in partnership with CAT, aims to increase the number of people earning a living from locally produced…
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