Meet James and Clare from One Planet Organics, one of the collective of agroecological veg growers who help to fill the gaps in our harvest and increase the variety of our veg boxes.

This month, we welcome our friend & collaborator Dr Anna-Marie Young. She is a writer and grower at her family farm, C&M Organics in Hebron, Pembrokeshire - one of the growers who help us fill the gaps in our veg boxes. Her written work focuses on landscape and identity, but she’s mainly found knee deep in mud on her family’s organic farm.

Steffan is joined in the Peasants’ Kitchen by local chef & food activist JAM to turn our winter cabbages into a couple of delicious ferments - suaerkraut and kimchi. This is a great way to preserve the flavour, nutrition and beneficial bacteria in your vegetables…and its so easy!

Volunteering at Glasbren has given me something to look forward to each week, a therapeutic environment away from the noise and anxieties of modern life, plus, a real sense of achievement.

As our 2021 CSA season season comes to an end, I wanted to explore this unique model for food and farming in a little more detail, get down some of the reflections I’ve had driving veg around the rolling green hills of our catchment through a pandemic and share with you why we think CSA holds the key to a resilient and regenerative future.

In Celtic regions, the night of the 31st October & passage into 1st November has been celebrated for centuries as the Celtic fire festival of Samhain, and in Wales, Calan Gaeaf. For rural folk, Calan Gaeaf marks the end of the harvest season and it’s long association with death and the Dead - though different celebrations, this is where Halloween and Calan Gaeaf, or Samhain, are similar!

In this week’s Cegin y Werin live cooking demo, Steffan turns this week’s veg box ingredients - swede, turnip, celery leaf, potatoes, parsley & wild foods - into the traditional, warming peasant dish of these Welsh lands, Cawl.

We are delighted to announce that we will be bringing Seedy Saturday, one of the biggest events for growers of the year, back to Carmarthen in 2022!

I came to Glasbren at a low point in my life, and the gentle support and acceptance offered there by the people and land came when I desperately needed it. Glasbren has offered a safe space for me to mix with kind and welcoming people and spend time in nature. Going there has been instrumental to finding my purpose and place in the world, and in giving me a boost when I feel low.

Glasbren is the Welsh language word for ‘Sapling’, a young, growing tree. For me, a sapling is a powerful symbol of regeneration, renewal and resilience. Life giving, restorative and adaptive to place, soil, climate and ecology. The early beginnings of a forest ecosystem, the best example we have of a complex, balanced ecosystem, a web of beneficial relationships. What better symbol to lead the work that we do?

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