Winter projects 2024

 Croeso pawb,

Well today is the first day of metrological winter, so timely to mention, briefly, a couple of exciting projects which will be under way shortly.

Bumblebee Conservation Trust are leading on the Connecting the Carmarthenshire Coast project which will see three areas of poor quality amenity grassland transformed into rich native flower pollinator areas.

The innovative approach revolves around to methods, one using stone and sand mixed to create a nutrient poor bed into which a range of locally sourced native coastal flowers will be planted or seeded. The second involves recycling waste products from the steel making industry to create a, more or less, inert planting medium which will deliver two main benefits, firstly becoming an effective Carbon store, and secondly bringing a splash of coastal colour to an otherwise bland area of species poor grassland.

Another larger scale project will look at using the same steel industry waste product to create around 800sqm of new habitat to improve Carbon capture as well as, again, bringing native wildflowers into an area species poor grassland.

As these projects develop I'll provide more details.

It is likely that I will not be posting the blog weekly during the next few months but do keep checking by opening up the link you use to find the blog.