And learning the realities of farming - Monmouthshire farmers Kate and Jim Bevan are no strangers to sharing their livestock knowledge, since their family farm in Llanvetherine near Abergavenny became the filming location for the BBC 2 programme Lambing Live. But the couple have now extended their business by opening a Country School to teach courses varying from lambing, shearing and butchery to cider making and creative writing.

How involved are you in the environment of wales and do you feel you have a voice? Despite the current Welsh government consultations on the new framework for managing our landscape and the proposed new, single, environment body Wales' community woodland network, Llais y Goedwig says not enough people are getting involved. It's an issue they will address later this week at their conference where community woodland initiatives from all over Wales will be getting together to celebrate their diversity.

And Slow Building - Traditional building materials and skills are staging a comeback against the onslaught of modern, mass produced products that are inappropriate, ugly or simply don't work. Championing the cause of this revival in the Conwy Valley is the Natural Building Centre owned and managed by Ned and Sophie Schärer. Our community reproter, Huw Jenkins visits their house.