Badgers, Wool and Potatoes
Plans for a badger cull in West Wales are back on the agenda. Is the Welsh Wool industry hanging by a thread, missing a valuable marketing opportunity? And come by - the campaign to bring back the working Cardiganshire corgi
Last updated: 13 March 2011
Country Focus - Sunday 13th March at 07.00am presented by Rachael Garside; repeated 5.30am Monday 14th March 2010
We speak to the Chief Vet, Christianne Glossop as the Wales Assembly Government announces fresh plans for a badger cull in North Pembrokeshire
Wool is a versatile fibre - but how widely known is that? The Textiles Technology Project at Coleg Sir Gâr says the fibre isn't being widely used by designers, and other industries need to have more awareness about it. The Project will deliver its first wool seminar at the National Botanical Gardens of Wales on 17 March and another at the CAT Centre in Machynlleth on 30 March where companies, organisations and members of the public are welcome to attend.
A group of farmers in Ceredigion are determined to bring back a local breed on the verge of extinction - the Cardiganshire corgi.
What are you picking up from your local garden centre? Could it be the new knotweed - the charity Plantlife warns there are more alien plants set to wreak havoc if not controlled.
And it'll soon be time to plant potatoes - our community reporter, Huw Jenkins discovers what to plant and when.
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