Green Horizons (Eco) Exhibition at Royal Welsh Spring Festival
Welsh TV personality Russell Jones will be present at the eco garden at the Royal Welsh Spring Festival to answer visitors’ questions on sustainable gardening and small scale poultry keeping.
An eco garden built on site specifically for the Royal Welsh Spring Festival will be one of the interesting new attractions for visitors at this year’s two-day event on the Royal Welsh showground at Llanelwedd, Builth Wells, in May.
The garden will be featured at the popular Green Horizons (Eco) Exhibition which was introduced at the Festival in 2006 and it will provide practical advice about sustainable green gardening.
Welsh television personality Russell Jones of S4C will be present at the eco garden on the second day of the Festival (Sunday, May 22) to share his expertise as an environmentally friendly gardener and small scale poultry keeper and to answer questions.
Green fingered visitors who want to discover how to make snails work for – rather than against – them, how to grow carrots in a window box, train trees, make compost or even build a greenhouse using recycled plastic bottles, will find all the answers at the eco garden.
The Eco Exhibition with its range of over 60 trade stands, demonstrations, and green-themed entertainment, has always attracted large crowds and this year it will be staged in the Montgomery Pavilion in the heart of the showground.
The exhibition was established in response to increasing public awareness of the need to apply environmentally sustainable practices to daily life, to reduce pollution, cut out waste and diminish the carbon footprint and since its introduction five years ago it has proved a popular venue at the Festival.
The Wales Climate Change Centre will be focussing their stand at the exhibition on renewable energy options. They will be available to explain the new Feed-in-Tariff scheme which offers exciting opportunities for landowners to receive government payments if they install renewable energy technologies such as photovoltaic panels. They will also be introducing the government’s recently launched Renewable Heat Incentive Scheme for both landowners and homeowners.
“Green Horizons provides a wonderful opportunity for people to come and get information and advice from impartial agencies and organisations and actually to visit the stands of companies who deliver the goods,” said Royal Welsh Assistant Company Secretary, Caron Evans. “It can be an overwhelming choice over whether to go for wood burners, heat pumps, solar panels, pellet boilers or wind turbines, so we are very happy to have a high level of expertise to hand,” she said.
Other exhibitors at the exhibition to help and advise on green issues will include the Forestry Commission, Moel y Ci, the Cwm Harry Land Trust and the South Wales Energy Agency.
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