I went up to the Smallholders Show today with the Fairtrade group from Hay. We were manning a table in the Green Horizons hall, offering chocolate to taste, and talking about Fairtrade cotton. For more details visit the Fairtrade Hay blog.
We also had a chance to leave the stall and wander around.
One of the first people I met was a lady on the This Is Rubbish stall, who is coming to Hayfield Gardens in Hay over one weekend of the Hay Festival, to talk about what we do with our food waste.
Just opposite the Fairtrade stall was the Transition Towns stall, and there was a very knowledgeable lady there from Llandrindod Wells. Because Llandod is known for its Victorian Festival, they've put together an exhibition entitled How Green were the Victorians, with examples of all sorts of Victorian innovations which have now fallen out of use. She said that the first electricity in Llandrindod Wells was very nearly provided by a water mill in Howey nearby, until a contract was signed instead with the owners of a coal-fired generating system.
One of our ladies has just done a beekeeping course - which is why I found myself helping to carry a beehive to the car later in the day! She was seriously investigating some chickens, too.
I was rather taken with the lovely beasts above - but they'd never fit in my back garden!
There was also folk dancing, and a Scottish piper, and wandering garden gnomes (they had a map, and a sign saying "You are Here") and pigs and goats and rabbits and solar energy and garden plants and people building a greenhouse out of plastic bottles, and woodturners, and a falconry display and Shire horses and donkeys, and all sorts of local food...and all manner of fun things. It's not as big as the Royal Welsh Show, but there's plenty to see, all the same.
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