The challenges are multiple and interwoven…
The Nature and Us project area covers a 15-mile section of the River Severn catchment, incorporating some 17,240 acres of members’ land and NRW forestry stretching from Dolfor in the east to Clywedog in the west.
The challenges are multiple and interwoven…the solutions are complex but much can be achieved through our landscape-scale plan to use the sustainable management of natural resources effectively.
The main opportunity for our collaboration is to reduce the effects of climate change such as soil erosion by water and wind. We also need to reverse the declining health of ecosystems that leads to loss of biodiversity.
On a socio-economic front, our project includes tackling threats such as the effect of farming income post-Brexit and health issues like deprivation, obesity and stress of lifestyles that can lead to both physical and mental illness.
Latest blogs
Top sheep show
THE Welsh Sheep 2023 event comes to Mid Wales on Tuesday May 16th 2023 with the biennial event always an important feature of the farming calendar. Hosts are the Maesmawr Group members, the Owen family – Huw, Sioned and Dafydd – of Redhouse Farm, Aberhafesp near...
Newtown Food Festival
Almost 400 people visited the stand of our environmental project during the Newtown Food Festival to talk about nature and farming. The Nature and People Working Together project (slogan: Nature and Us), led by the Maesmawr Group of farmers from the Upper Severn...
Nature and Farming
Farmer and ecologist Sorcha Lewis was guest speaker at a Nature and People Project Steering Group meeting with a presentation on “Nature Friendly Farming”. Sorcha and her husband Brian Lewis are third generation tenant farmers living at Troedrhiwdrain Farm with their...
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