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Community Growing From Community Gardens,

Incredible Edible trails, to Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) and local veg boxes, communities across Wales are growing! Growing projects offer an array of benefits and opportunities, from growing food, and getting together, to supporting the wider community with access fresh and healthy local food. All of these community actions bring us closer to nature and understanding and how we can work with it, and they have a pile of other benefits too. They bring people together and strengthen community, providing opportunities for everyone in the community to join in, they provide educational opportunities, promote healthy living, as well as opportunities for work and skills training.

Incredible Edible

Incredible Edible started in Todmorden, Yorkshire. It's vision is to create kind, confident and connected communities through the power of food. A group of locals decideed to become guerilla gardeners - they started planting edible plants in unloved public spaces with a belief in small actions. The result hasn't been small at all! Here Pam Warhurst explains what they did, why they did it, and how these small actions had bigger knock on effects in their community.

This project has inspired people across the world, as well as in Powys. Incredible Edible projects in Powys include:

• Incredible Edible Llandrindod/Bwyd Bendigedig Llandrindod Wells

• Cultivate, Newtown

• Edible Knighton

• BRACE, Llanfyllin

• Edible Mach Maethlon,

Machynlleth Find out more on the Incredible Edible website

School Growing and Countryside Classrooms

Most schools have some learning based in the outdoors, and now learning outdoors has been recognised by the Department for Education(DfE) as important. It has published the 'Learning Outside the Classroom Manifesto' which opens with the following statement: “We believe that every young person should experience the world beyond the classroom as an essential part of learning and personal development, whatever their age, ability or circumstances.”

Countryside Classroom The charity Countryside Classroom is a single destination where teachers can find and access the resources, places to visit and people to ask that will support their teaching about food, farming and the natural environment for all Key Skill levels.

Forest Schools and School Farms You may have heard of Forest Schools, which provide learning in nature from playschool age up, and have thier own accreditation for educators. Not so well known are School Farms , where growing plants and caring for animals is integrated into the curriculum. There are currently more than 120 School Farms in the UK. Social Farms and Gardens co-ordinate and support the School Farms Network. Click here to download more information.

More School Resources Resources for teachers, but some may also come in handy during the holidays! Garden Organic - Games, activities, projects and posters. Grow Your Own Grub - detailed instructions and lesson plans for growing food.

Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) and local veg boxes

Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) and local veg boxes

 

 

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