18 August 2021
Gillian Williams has an impeccable pedigree when it comes to her knowledge of sheep! Breeding them, shearing them and making money from them comes naturally to this Falklands-born sheep farmer who now lives at her family’s...
11 December 2020
If coronavirus has scuppered your plans for Christmas shopping, don’t despair! An enterprising group of young women from North Wales may have the perfect solution. If your nearest and dearest are involved with farming or rural...
1 May 2020
Cheryl Reeves is a farmer, wife and mum who has a hectic work/life balance that would daunt many of us! A qualified bio-chemist, she moved to a new job in north Wales in 2006 and soon...
24 October 2019
They say good things come to those who wait! Winning the Sportsmanship Award at the recent International Sheepdog Trials in Aberdeenshire, when she represented the Welsh team, was a fantastic achievement for Bavarian-born Beate Behr who...
31 July 2019
If you shop at Pantri Crwst, the official National Eisteddfod’s caravan site shop at Llanrwst this week, the food miles of those tasty Welsh products bought will be much less than those travelled walking the...
29 July 2019
Farmers who are concerned that anti-farming messages promoted by campaign groups are influencing their next generation of customers are fighting back by inviting schools to their farms.
Farming Connect’s Agrisgôp initiative has brought together 12...
25 June 2019
The quality of water sourced from an important drinking water borehole is being protected thanks to small-scale changes to farming practices resulting from a Farming Connect-facilitated collaboration between farmers and Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water.
Welsh Water...
11 March 2019
With the agricultural sector facing a period of uncertainty, it was great to see agriculture pupils from Ysgol y Berwyn, Bala looking positively and enthusiastically at the process of taking lambs from farm to fork...
3 July 2018
A young farmer is farming in his own right after gaining support and confidence through Farming Connect initiatives to apply for the tenancy.
Aled Harper, a qualified carpenter, grew up on a smallholding in Pembrokeshire...
23 May 2018
Brenda Lewis from north Pembrokeshire has been a keen cook since studying catering in college. She says becoming an independent business woman would have been beyond her wildest dreams in those days, but with support...
