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Cydnerthedd amgylcheddol ar gyfer dŵr yng nghefn gwlad Cymru

Our aim is to co-develop a soil management toolkit supporting farmer self-assessment of sustainable farming actions.

Welsh farmers play a crucial role in sustaining ecosystem services of clean water, air and habitat provision, as well as food production. In addition to pressures to produce food cheaply, farmers are at serious risk due to the negative impacts of climate change, which is already increasing summer storm intensity and sediment runoff.

To help farmers cope with these changes, Cardiff University is partnering with NFU Cymru to increase engagement with sustainable farming actions in rural farming communities through targeted workshops and communication events. Workshops will co-produce a soil management toolkit with practical, bilingual instructions that farmers can use to apply sustainable land management concepts on their own farms.

Partnership working enables the bilingual soil management information and toolkit instructions to be developed throughout the project following participant feedback, and be made available online. Outreach with Young Farmers’ Club members, led by designer Ms. Penny Turnbull, will support project themes of sustainable farming and resilience. Project themes will be additionally communicated through an art piece created by Ms. Turnbull and hosted in the NFU Cymru permanent collection and digitally online.

Activities and methods

  • Co-develop a soil management toolkit supporting farmer self-assessment, including Welsh-language materials.
  • Online workshop introducing sustainable farming methods developed through NFU Cymru’s The Water Standard led by Nuffield Farming Trust Scholar Ms. Lorna Davis.
  • On-farm walkover visit and custom assessment of sustainable farming opportunities (COVID-safe protocols in place).
  • Knowledge exchange workshop sharing impact of self-assessment, sustainable farming actions, peer feedback for revision of toolkit materials.

Benefits of becoming involved

  • Raised awareness of the benefits of nutrient management and water quality.
  • Improved surface water, groundwater and soil quality within a catchment.
  • Co-production of a farmer led toolbox to managing nutrients and sediments on land.
  • Guidance on impacts affecting water quality and quantity.
  • Networking and knowledge sharing with other local farmers.

Creative partner collaboration with Mrs Penelope Turnbull

Penelope Turnbull is a highly motivated and creative designer with over 20 years design experience, 15 years of these spent employed by McNeece and Space Design Naval Architects as head of design developing and implementing the interiors of 14 cruise ships. In addition, she has created a photographic installation with Stefan Reimschuessel and exhibited at Moreton Street Gallery.

She has also undertaken set designs for the British Embassy Players, window dressing for Harrods and visual displays for Sotheby’s. Her qualifications include degrees in Politics and Philosophy (Reading University), Interior Design (KLC, London) Photography (Central St Martins) and Textile Design (Central St Martins). Her awards include the Rose Award (York Academy of Art), Comarit Design Award and Chantiers De L’Atlantique contribution to the maritime industry for design.

Registration

We are accepting registration for participants based in target catchments:

  • Llangefni
  • Angelsey
  • Milford Haven
  • Pembrokeshire
  • Usk
  • Abergavenny
  • Monmouthshire

We are looking for participants who are willing to attend two online workshop, each lasting 1.5 hours over the weeks of 19-23 July and late September/early October) and including a 1:1 farm visit

Please contact Lorna Davis for further information at waterfriendlyfarming@gmail.com.

Related partners

Funding

This project is funded by The Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)

Canlyniadau

Mae dŵr yn bwysig!

Yn ystod glaw trwm, gall dŵr sy’n llifo dros y tir gario pridd sy’n cynnwys maetholion a chemegion i’r cwrs dŵr.

Mae camau gweithredu cynaliadwy ym maes ffermio’n;

  • Arafu dŵr
  • Cadw pridd a maetholion ar y fferm
  • Atal pridd a chemegion rhag mynd i mewn i gwrs dŵr

Dŵr ffo’r buarth

  • Rhwystro llwybr y llif â’r deunyddiau sydd ar gael
  • Dŵr yn arafu i fyny’r afon o’r rhwystr
  • Dŵr yn treiddio i mewn i’r ddaear, gan adael y pridd yn y buarth
  • Gellir cael gwared ar bridd brwnt

Lleiniau clustogi

  • Arafu dŵr sy’n mynd i mewn i’r llain glustogi
  • Coridor afon yn cael ei reoli drwy dorri/pori
  • Amrywio’r lled lle bo angen er mwyn dal llifoedd uchel

Trapiau gwaddod

  • Dŵr yn arafu mewn ardal â phwll bach
  • Dŵr yn treiddio i mewn i’r ddaear gan adael y pridd yn y trap
  • Pridd yn cael ei gloddio allan yn ôl yr angen

Rhwystrau gwaddod

  • Defnyddio byrnau gwellt neu bwndeli prysgwydd
  • Dŵr yn arafu i fyny’r afon
  • Pridd a maetholion yn cael eu dal i fyny’r afon ac o fewn y rhwystr
  • Llai o bridd a maetholion yn mynd i mewn i’r cwrs dŵr

Gellir cael ffeil delwedd ffeithlun y cynnwys hwn oddi wrth Dr Elizabeth Follett

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Principal investigator

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Dr Elizabeth Follett

Royal Academy of Engineering-Sêr Cymru Research Fellow

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