There’s a lot prepared for the summer season at the Centre for Alternative Technology near Machynlleth as the centre marks 50 years.
CAT at 50 – Summer Celebration
CAT marks 50 years this summer season (CAT)
This year marks the Centre for Alternative Technology’s 50-year anniversary, and we would like you to join us on 19 August for an unique family-friendly open day commemorating this extraordinary turning point.
Meet the forest group under our brand-new Bodger’s Hut and attempt your hand at a variety of amazing practical activities utilizing conventional forest crafts and woodcraft tools!
Build a Pollinator Garden
Discover how to build a pollinator friendly environment in your garden or outside space with CAT’s garden enthusiasts.
Join our Summer Nature Count and help gather reality wildlife information from CAT’s ponds, meadows, gardens and forests and belong to our checking out of who calls the CAT website home in the summer season!
The Woodland Bird Walk utilizes CAT’s Quarry Trail (CAT)
Join the forest ranger on their morning bird study along the CAT’s Quarry Trail or through CAT’s Heart Wood.
This activity is intended towards anybody who wishes to learn more about bird acknowledgment, their ecology, and their interesting language.
Gardening for Nature Experience Day
Lay the structures to your wildlife gardening understanding and explore what you can do in your own garden to help nature thrive on this amazing day out in the CAT gardens.
This initial day uses a wide array of ideas for gardening for nature, loaded filled with practical activities and understanding to help wildlife prosper in your garden at home.
Get your hands unclean finding out how the earth below your feet can be utilized to build eco friendly structures.
Meet the Team – Sustainable Gardening
Discuss all way of gardening subjects with the CATs group (CAT)
CAT’s Gardens Ranger will be on-hand to go over all way of gardening associated subjects. Whether you have concerns about composting or desire concepts for container-gardening, CAT’s professionals will have the ability to point you in the best instructions and even reveal working examples around the gardens.
Get began with green woodworking and discover the art and science of diminish pot sculpting. Spend a day in a lovely setting finding out how to sculpt a wood diminish pot from start to end up.
Spend a day in nature finding the ancient art of spoon sculpting. This course is an excellent method to begin with woodworking, covering selecting products, utilizing tools securely, sculpting methods, and drying and completing.
All vacation occasions are FREE with your entry ticket. Dogs are welcome. The website opens from 10am and closes at 5pm.
CAT is an excellent location for kids, with plenty to see and do. With an eco-adventure play area, a shop filled with eco goodies and hearty lunches in CAT’s vegetarian café, CAT has whatever you require for an excellent day out.
