New Llais y Goedwig website
Llais y Goedwig, the community woodland group network for Wales, is proud to launch a new website this month. You can visit it here This new website will be online the hub for community woodlands in...
View ArticleFCFCG Mid Wales Skill Share event, 26 September
Mid Wales Skill Sharing event When: Friday 26th September Where: Denmark Farm, Betws Bledrws, Lampeter, Ceredigion SA48 8PB This year’s FCFCG Mid Wales Gathering will be held at Denmark Farm, a...
View ArticleHeritage of Orchards & Cider Making in Wales’ project
The Welsh Perry and Cider Society are currently in stage 1 of a ‘Heritage of Orchards & Cider Making in Wales’ project. As part of the project they are looking for 20 community groups to work with...
View ArticleA decade of community growing in the heart of the Welsh capital
At the northern tip of Cardiff’s Bute Park, 130 acres of landscaped gardens and parkland slap bang in the middle of the city, lies a real hidden gem of a community growing project. Sandwiched between...
View ArticleGrowing together – how growing is empowering and regenerating communities...
This is a guest post from Louise Cartwright, the Federation of City Farms and Community Gardens’ Mid-Wales Development worker: Being the Mid Wales Development Worker my work involves supporting people...
View ArticleEuropean community growing experts come to Swansea
Here at Tyfu Pobl and the Federation of City Farms and Community Gardens we are delighted to welcome fellow community growers from around Europe when we host the European Federation of City Farms...
View ArticleNew friends made at Mid Wales skill share event
This is a blog post from Tyfu Pobl Mid Wales Development Worker Louise Cartwright This years’ Mid Wales Skill Sharing event took place last Friday at Denmark Farm, 4 miles away from the picturesque...
View ArticleFCFCG response to Welsh Government consultation on land for allotments and...
This summer Welsh Government launched a consultation on improving the availability of allotments and community gardens. They are seeking the FCFCG and our members’ views and opinions on proposals to...
View ArticleCommunity growers from Barry Community Garden take a trip to St Peter’s...
Two community gardeners from Barry recently spent a day with the Garden Manager at St Peters Community Garden in Cardiff. Lisa Williams and Mike Jones, Garden Manager and Modern Apprentice at Barry...
View ArticleWales Community Supported Agriculture annual gathering
This is a guest post from Rupert Dunn, FCFCG Development Worker and member of Caerhys Organic Community Agriculture (COCA), St Davids This September, Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) growers...
View ArticleNew Anglesey growers’ first season
It’s always exciting when the growing season comes to fruition, but even more so when it’s your first! Bryn Du allotments in Anglesey are enjoying the finale of their first season having started...
View ArticleCae Tân – community supported agriculture by the sea
This is a guest blog post from Tom O’Kane, who describes how a site that had been left unfenced and grazed by commons livestock for the past 30 years is now h0me to Cae Tân, a community supported...
View ArticleFind your match! Join the FCFCG Twinning and Mentoring programmes
We believe that one of the best ways to support community growing projects is to provide opportunities for members to get together, share experiences and actually see what’s been achieved on the...
View ArticleHead Gardener, Charter Housing – Newport
Based at Loftus Garden Village and Other Sites, 37 hours per week – Actual salary £26,500 pa What will you do? Develop, manage, design, continuously evaluate and improve the delivery of day to day...
View ArticleDyfi Land Share – community growing in Machynlleth
This is a guest post from Gráinne and Katie from Dyfi Land Share. We set up Dyfi Land Share in Machynlleth in March 2013 with the aims of increasing local knowledge of food production and to help...
View ArticleCommunity Supported Agriculture scoping study
The FCFCG has commissioned a scoping study to explore the potential for new Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) projects in Wales. Community Supported Agriculture is a relatively new form of farming...
View ArticleGive me shelter – North Wales Winter Gathering
The first Tyfu Pobl community growing gathering of 2015 was held in North Wales at the beautiful Rhyd y Creuau Field Studies Centre, Llanrwst. Part of the site’s two hectares of wooded grounds are run...
View ArticleWassailing away at Conwy Community Orchard
This is a guest post from Emma Leighton-Jones at Conwy Orchard Community Group, who held their annual Wassail to bless the trees in January 2015: It was a windy day for our annual Wassail at Conwy...
View ArticleFCFCG response to Minister for Natural Resources statement on land for...
On 27 January, Minister for Natural Resources Carl Sargeant AM issued the Welsh Government’s response to the consultation on the availability of land for allotments and community gardens in Wales. On...
View ArticleFCFCG community supported agriculture (CSA) study tour to Canalside CSA
This is a guest post from FCFCG South West Development Worker Rupert Dunn, who led the study tour to Canalside CSA. On Saturday 14 February, an intrepid group of people interested and engaged in...
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