Wilder Pentwyn

A 164-acre farm for the future that seeks to balance a wilder approach with continued production of food.

Imagine a landscape buzzing, chirping and crawling with wildlife. A landscape that brings and maintains hope - hope for a better world for nature and people.

The land at Pentwyn will be transformed into a humming, buzzing and chirruping oasis where the calls of threatened birds can be heard once more. It lies beside other wild land so there is good potential to help wildlife thrive again across a wider area by expanding and connecting wild habitat.

Radnorshire Wildlife Trust wants Pentwyn to become wilder by making space for nature and allowing natural processes to develop, but we also want it to be a farm. A new model farm for the future. With high welfare, low input meat being produced from the stock and vegetables, fruit and nuts produced from the market gardening business, which will have provided an opportunity for a new entrant to farming. Most of all we want to see nature increase on the land, draw people in, give them a sense of well-being, moments of wonder and hope for all our futures. Crucially, for Pentwyn we’ve created an ambitious 30-year vision for the future, which you can read here.

We represent a community of nature lovers and as such are not approaching farming the land in the current conventional manner.  We will be open about this and for the need to find a way of putting nature into recovery on a site, that provides wider landscape and community benefits, that exists alongside the future of farming, but also provides examples of what can be done within farm businesses for nature.  We will seek to create employment opportunities and bring funds to the local economy through the use of local contractors and suppliers.  We have a staff and volunteer base that lives within the area and are active within the community.