Feeding our Community

Teaching, Motivating, and Inspiring!

Feeding Our Community (FOC), a project by Cwm Arian Renewable Energy, aims to teach, motivate, and inspire our Carmarthenshire community to grow, store and prepare food in publicly accessible green spaces. Designed with the local community in mind, helping to make where we live better for everybody. Taking part in the project is FREE and allows your community to have their say about how their green spaces develop. Providing opportunities for people to learn about growing their own food, cooking seasonal produce together, and seeing their ideas come to life on a garden design map.

HOW WILL YOUR SPACE BENEFIT?

A professional ‘Design Map’ for your outdoor

spaces, created by your community, ready for

display,
Support from design experts. This could

include help managing your venue’s budget to carry out your design, help sourcing funding or further design advice,
Up to £1000 to implement your design ideas. This could be spent on a) elements identified during the design sessions, b) paying a facilitator to run a workshop to implement a chosen design feature, or c) additional onsite design support.

HOW WILL YOUR VOLUNTEERS BENEFIT?

By the end of the Feeding Our Community Project. Your volunteers will have;

Opportunities to attend design sessions
facilitated by our garden design experts in your space, study trips to local community gardens and local community meals,
Practical, transferable design skills which could be used for their own gardens or added to their CV,
We will be providing refreshments and/or lunch for all sessions.

WHAT ARE WE ASKING FOR?

Volunteer time to attend meetings and design sessions
Contact Sara for more information and to get involved: email:- sara@cwmarian.org.uk

Events coming up ~
Community Meals and Garden Design Sessions

Community Meal and Design Presentation
CARE's Feeding Our Community Project is hosting a FREE community meal!
Join us for dinner, where we will present the design for LLanllwddog Church Hall/Llanpumsaint Playing Field/Yr Ardd , record your recommendations and let you know about future garden workdays.
- Tuesday 16th January - 5.30pm till 7.30pm, Llanllawddog Church Hall - SA32 7JE,
- Tuesday 23rd January - 5.30pm till 7.30pm, Llanpumsaint Memorial Hall - SA33 6BZ ,
- Tuesday 30th January - 5.30pm till 7.30pm, The Powerhouse Llandysul - SA44 4AH
Serving food at 6pm,
No need to book, just turn up. A chance to eat with your neighbours, and learn more about design plans for your green spaces. Bring your friends and family!
Everybody welcome,
Tell us your thoughts or comments, let us know if you'd like to volunteer for a workday or have any offerings to help turn our design into a reality!

Email Sara

Yr Ardd Garden Design Session 2
Follow up from Design Session 1

Tuesday 28th November
5pm till 7pm

The final session, to design the green spaces by the entrance to Yr Ardd, led by Louise Cartwright and Caz Wyatt. During the session we will be analysing our findings, deciding on design elements, and placing our chosen elements on our design map.

Meet in Pwerdy Powerhouse in Llandysul. Refreshments will be available - to fuel our creative endeavours!

All welcome to come and share ideas! Please come to the hall:- https://w3w.co/procured.owners.backpack