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Eich Perllan Gymunedol - Your Community Orchard

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The Mari Lwyd is a Welsh wassailing tradition involving a decorated horse's skull carried on a pole. Here are instructions on how to make your own mini version to bring to Llandrindod's community wassail.

You will need:

The mini Mari Lwyd template
Coloured pens, crayons, glitter etc.
Scissors
Glue - pritt stick or similar is good
Masking tape
A stick
Coloured ribbons

Details: Published: 19 January 2019

Sunday 20th January - All Welcome, Croeso i Bawb!

We invite you to our third annual Community Wassail! Come along and help to celebrate your community orchard and encourage the trees for the coming year.

The event will follow the same schedule as last year - let's cross our fingers for dry weather so that we can get to the orchard this time! As ever though, check the Facebook event page for updates in case we have to change our plans at the last minute.

4pm - Noisy procession from the Bandstand to the Community Orchard - bring your shakers and drums and voices!

4:30pm - Tree dressing, music, hot drinks and snacks in the orchard.

5pm - Wassail ceremony, more music and general merriment.

6pm (ish) - Finish

What to bring:

A mug - there'll be a hot drink provided for everyone. To help us save on waste, please bring your own cup/mug/beaker if you can. The drinks will all be free but there will be a small charge for a disposable cup to encourage their reuse.

A slice or two of toast - yes really! We'll be hanging the trees with toast as an offering to the tree spirits and to the birds.

Brightly coloured ribbons - for dressing the trees with.

A noise maker (optional) - children especially are encouraged to bring a rattle, shaker or something to bang, to help us scare away any dark spirits that might be lurking!

A musical instrument (optional) - if you'd like to join in with the music making.

A torch or lantern - it'll be dark by the time we're done, so make sure you bring a light of some kind with you.

Dress code = WARM. Bright colours, garish patchwork, silly hats and cloaks are actively encouraged, but above all make sure you will be warm enough.

Make sure you wear suitable shoes for potentially wet and slippy ground!

If you'd like to get involved in organising the event or helping out on the day we'd love to hear from you! Just send us a message.

Details: Published: 27 December 2018

We recently put together a presentation as part of the celebrations of ten years of Trawsnewid Llandrindod Transition, which gave us a chance to look back at what we've achieved in the three years since the first plantings in our community orchard.

So far:

5 planting days held

57 trees and innumerable soft fruit bushes planted

3 benches and 1 sign installed

1 scything course

1 pruning course

2 wassails held

Many picnics enjoyed!

Coming up:

Curry & Quiz fundraiser – Friday 11th January 2019, 7pm in the Herb Garden Community Cafe

Wassail 2019 – Sunday 20th January 2019, 4-6pm

Tesco bags of help grant – vote for us in January and February!

Development of a community scything group to help us keep the grass cut

Installation of picnic benches, raised beds, maybe even a shelter?

More courses and events

Many more picnics!

As always, we'd love to hear from you if you have any ideas about how you'd like to see the orchard develop as a space for all the community to use and enjoy, or if you'd like to get involved in any way. This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or contact us via Facebook.

Details: Published: 27 December 2018

Sunday 21st January - All Welcome!

We invite you to our second Community Wassail! Come along and help to celebrate your community orchard and encourage the trees for the coming year.

4pm - Noisy procession from the Bandstand to the Community Orchard - bring your shakers and drums and voices!

4:30pm - Tree dressing, music, hot drinks and snacks in the orchard.

5pm - Wassail ceremony, more music and general merriment.

6pm (ish) - Finish

What to bring:

A mug - there'll be a hot drink provided for everyone. We'll get some paper cups just in case, but to help us save on waste, please bring your own cup/mug/beaker if you can.