Welcome to Our New Website!
If you’re reading this, welcome! You’ve found your way to our brand new website - a space for us to talk directly to our online community, tell our story and reach out to new places and people who might want to join our efforts to heal the Earth, heal ourselves and heal our fragmented communities.
The site has been the creation of Heather Birnie, a local photographer and web designer that we’ve followed for years, awed by the way that she told the stories of food and farming projects, beautiful places and inspiring lifestyles and individuals. I knew that she was the right person to tell our story, and help us build a place on the web that reflected our values, our stories and authentically portrayed who we are and what Glasbren is about. Heather joined us for a sunrise photoshoot back in August 2021, which produced the beautifully-lit imagery you can see throughout the site, too.
Artwork by Lee John Phillips
The site also features additional photography from Aled Llywelyn (thanks to Food Sense Wales) and Adam Leppard (thanks to Grow Feral), as well as the beautiful artwork (above) created for us by Lee John Phillips, a local artist well-known for ‘The Shed Project’. We also have to acknoweldge the film work of Sarah and Andy of Landlore (below), Huw Richards and Eifion Jones that really brings the site to life and its visitors onto the land here.
It’s taken us a while to get around to building a website - which has been a little frustrating! Although social media has been a good platform for community building and sharing the progress of the project as it develops, we’re so glad to be able to take a little ownership over our content and create a place for our online community to gather that is 100% owned and curated by us, and not by a social media giant. That’s really important to us. We will continue to use social media actively, but it will be wonderful to have a more intimate, familiar and exclusive space to direct our followers and supporters to, where we can continue the conversation and share more exclusive news and content. It’s a place where you can get to know the farmers that grow the veg, hear more about the thinking that is behind Glasbren, learn and connect and tune in to regular news updates and what offerings are coming in the future.
I hope we’ve managed to get all of the info you’ll need on the site about our veg boxes, solidarity schemes, courses and workshops, volunteering opportunities, about how you can work with us and about our new project, Cegin y Werin. But we’re also really excited about being able to write a regular blog on the site. It will be a journal full of articles about all aspects of what we do. It’ll be the place to hear first the latest news and developments and, most exciting of all, we’ll also be inviting regular guest contributors from our community. The blog will be a careful curated journal of all things permaculture, food growing, regenerative living and nature connection. We love to write, tell stories and communicate, and we relish this new platform to do it. We hope you enjoy reading it too.
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As well as the ‘shop window’ of our website that any visitor will see, we’re working on a ‘members area’, where there will be exclusive content, information and online courses and tutorials around food growing, cooking and preserving and regenerative living. We’re also devoted, when we can, to translate the website into Welsh. This will make up phase two of the website build. Keep your eyes peeled for that!
Okay, for now, I’ll leave you to have a look around. Make yourselves at home. We welcome you to our online community, and look forward to interacting with you here in the future. Thank you. Diolch.
