The four interlinked strands of our work -gardening/environment, art, social inclusion, and education- create the avenues for our community learn, experiment, connect, enjoy nature and grow. Through these avenues we aim to address and overcome the ever-increasing obstacles our world is facing by educating people to become better equipped, more skilled and more strongly united.

Most of the Wilderness Trusts work over the last 30 years has been managing a farm in the hills of Mid Wales, providing residential volunteering opportunities, and education for people interested in all aspects of sustainable living, land-based subjects, and horticulture. They carry out practical tasks that enhance biodiversity and learn about the balance of food production and ecology. We also run internships in a range of subjects with the aim of getting long term unemployed and unskilled into work.

After 30 years of learning how to run a farm at zero carbon levels while producing food, restoring ecosystems and managing volunteers, we are now upscaleing our work to look at how this can be achieved in a town. In 2018, The Wilderness Trust purchased two old chapels in the heart of Llanidloes to begin the Hanging Gardens community project which includes a cafe, space for community groups, community fridge and micro allotments.
The next stage of our work is exploring the possibility of setting up a CSA in the town to create a community lead market garden in the efforts to promote local growing.