It’s been a busy season in the community garden, with volunteers engaged with lots of activities. Find out what we’ve been up to.
Category: Community Garden
The main community garden is situated behind the Public Institute on Llanfyllin High Street, with satellite sites at Y Dolydd and in Brook Street. The garden is focused on teaching volunteers and the wider community skills in growing food in line with permaculture principles, as well as building community out in the open air with our hands in the soil.
Volunteers meet everything Tuesday (between 2pm and 4pm) and Saturday (between 11am and 1pm) to make compost, mulch the beds, plant out new fruit and vegetables, tidy up and harvest the produce. Please do come along to say hello and have a cup of tea – and lend a hand if you’d like!
Gardd Y Fro Open Day
The community garden will be hosting an open day and seedling/plant swap on Sunday 11th June, 1–4pm behind the Public Institute Llanfyllin. Email brace.committee@gmail.com for more details. See you there!
🦋 An excellent visit to Pili-Pala Farm
Thanks so much to Pili-Pala farm for being such informative and generous hosts to BRACE last weekend. Tom gave an excellent tour of the farm and a really interesting talk about its history and methods, as well as answering a lot of questions from BRACE members!
🪴 New container gardens appear at the school
After a busy morning of transporting planters and shifting soil, gardening has finally got underway at Llanfylllin school. While the work is definitely not finished, and there are more plans afoot to create further planting spaces, two new planters and plenty of pots have helped green hard areas of concrete. Herbs will provide an edible…
New Grant from Keep Wales Tidy
BRACE volunteers are looking forward to a busy planting season after being awarded a food growing planting kit. The sizeable collection of plants and materials includes 200 native bulbs, 29 flowering and fruiting shrubs, raised beds, vegetable plugs, wildflower seeds, five native fruit trees, and a compost bin. BRACE is one of the first organisations…
Community Garden: One Year On
It’s a little over a year on from the last update on the community garden, and the site is now bursting with life and providing a varied harvest of fresh, tasty, organic produce. Along with the promise of edible goodies, the garden now offers a wonderful aesthetic yield, with an abundance of greenery and the…
Community Food Growing
The Community Food Growing Project team have worked hard over the last year and now have 3 sites around Llanfyllin – behind the Public Institute, at Y Dolydd and in Brook Street. Growing spaces have been mulched with compost and are ready for more members to get involved. The main gardening time is 10 -12…
Garden logo?
Fun project really, thinking about potential signage at the institute garden. This logo idea is based on the icon for permaculture principle 1, ‘Observe and Interact’. The hole in the tree has become a face and fruits in the tree represent the surrounding community. And of course the river Cain at Cae Bodfach is also…
A week of panic & uncertainty
We have known for years that our complex interconnected global community, with just in time delivery and lean stocking is vulnerable to significant disruption. As we continue to witness climate breakdown it has felt important for us to focus on developing a stronger local-food economy with more diversity and shorter supply lines. The Covid virus…