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A beautiful 3.27 ha woodland plot near Bethlehem, in the Breacon Beacons National Park, Wales is available for a family who would like to pursue the One Planet Development (OPD) route as part of a 2-household shared equity co-housing scheme. The main growing area is split in two; a 0.10 ha area which includes the house plot, and a separate …

15th & 16th October

Coed Talylan

Thanks to the Land Workers Alliance we are running a subsidised weekend introduction to mushroom cultivation for small to medium scale farmers in Wales.

There are 8 places on the course and applications are open to members of the Land Workers Alliance and/or members of the CSA Network and/and residents of One Planet Development …

Last year several groups of women learned and practised their carpentry skills on the carpentry course at Coed Talylan. They did this by building a compost toilet made from rough sawn durable larch timber. These low impact loos now need a home.

I would like to extend an invitation out to everyone who has been on our carpentry course to come and help practise some more here in our woodland in Wales. Our One Planet Development has been accepted and we now have endless amount of interesting carpentry to be getting on with, as well as roundwood, cob, green roofing, etc.

If …

Over the past 4 years, here in this woodland, Coed Talylan, on the western edge of the Brecon Beacons, we have been carefully observing how this former spruce plantation is steadily regenerating into a diverse woodland. Twenty years ago the mature spruce was harvested, 50 years after the plantation was established by the Forestry Commission. There are areas that were …

When: 15th – 26th March, 2021

Where: Coed Talylan

Fancy learning about mushrooms and working in a woodland? Every spring at Coed Talylan there are 100s of logs to be inoculated for mushroom cultivation with varous species of fungi. Help is much appreciated. Slow going for one but fun in a group come and join our line of log inoculators …

This year we will be hosting innovator and open source technology designer Daniel Connell to run workshops sharing his open source low tech designs for renwable energy installations.

For the last ten years he has been working on setting up collaborative project spaces and giving practical making workshops in Australasia, India, North and Central America, and Europe. He has traveled …

Our 70 acre woodland lies in a secluded valley on the western edge of the Brecon Beacons, it is a haven for wildlife and we share the land with a huge variety of birds, amphibians, reptiles, insects, fungi, lichen, plants and trees.

We are establishing a “One Planet Development”, building our own home and taking care of our own needs, …

By Sara Tommerup

In April we ran a course at Coed Talylan in South West Wales, just for women. The course was a carpentry course and introduced women with little to no prior skills to build with timber. Although this may not sound so extraordinary, it is an achievement because of the surprisingly low number of women in the carpentry …

Last year Sara Tomerup built the first prototype mobile landworkers cabin. It is our hope that we can help a new generation of farmers find their way back on to the land, living more closely with the land, using temporary mobile housing like this as a means to getting themselves established.

We are selling this first cabin to raise money …