On the first Saturday of every month, we welcome you to the farm to get involved with what’s going on on the land and for seasonal celebrations, nature-based taster-sessions and mini-workshops. It’s a wonderful chance to see what’s been happening on the farm, learn new skills and enjoy a relaxing, fun day with like-minded company!

This month, in the spirit of Calan Gaeaf (the Welsh version of Samhain, where Halloween finds its roots) and to celebrate a whole year since Glasbren moved to Lords Park farm, we are gathering again for a big community garlic planting, a bring and share lunch, and some more FREE taster sessions thanks to Aviva Community Fund.

Calan Gaeaf marks the end of the harvest season and the dying of things in nature - the leaves fall and begin to decay, the land enters its long winter slumber. It’s a chance to reflect on death, the dead, and the rhythms and cycles of nature that connect us with them. How things must decay for new life to grow. So, this month, we thought it only right to invite composting jedi Peni Ediker from Swn y Coed to offer a FREE compost making taster session - come and learn how to make easy bokashi, compost teas and have soil like Peni’s from waste, decaying materials! Abel from Glasbren will also be offering a taster session called ‘Doom and Bloom: Composting despair, cultivating hope’, an intro to Joanna Macy’s ‘Work That Reconnects’, helping to compost our grief and despair about the state of the world, and transform it, into active hope. These will run simultaneously in the afternoon from 1.30pm-3.30pm. You can let us know which, if any, you’d like to attend in the form below.

As ever, we’ll be having a bring-and-share lunch, so please do bring a dish for the lunch table. Vegan-friendly dishes are encouraged to ensure that the spread suits everybody! We’ll have lunch around 12.30pm. We’ll provide refreshments through the day and everything else you might need, including mugs, plates and cutlery. As we turn towards Winter, waterproofs and sturdy footwear is strongly recommended!

Let us know you’re coming on the button below!

*To get the best from the day, we really do recommend trying to arrive on time if you can!

** We’d also propose a walk along the coast path and beach to the Castle Inn, our local pub in Llansteffan, at around 4pm, for anyone who is interested! ***

On the first Saturday of every month, we welcome you to the farm to get involved with what’s going on on the land and for seasonal celebrations, nature-based taster-sessions and mini-workshops. It’s a wonderful chance to see what’s been happening on the farm, learn new skills and enjoy a relaxing, fun day with like-minded company!

This month, as well as some farm activities and helping hands, we are delighted to have Stef from Swn y Coed to offer a FREE green woodworking taster sessions (come and carve a spoon or two) and Becky from Our Wild Edges to offer a FREE harvest/autumn themed forest bathing session on the land, too! These will run simultaneously in the afternoon from 1.30pm-3.30pm. You can let us know which, if any, you’d like to attend in the form below.

As ever, we’ll be having a bring-and-share lunch, so please do bring a dish for the lunch table. Vegan-friendly dishes are encourages to ensure that the spread suits everybody! We’ll have lunch around 12.30pm. We’ll provide refreshments through the day and everything else you might need, including mugs, plates and cutlery. As we turn towards Winter, waterproofs and sturdy footwear is strongly recommended!

Let us know you’re coming on the button below!

** We’d also propose a walk along the coast path and beach to the Castle Inn, our local pub in Llansteffan, at around 4pm, for anyone who is interested! ***

Every month, we welcome you to the farm to get involved with what’s going on on the land. Join us in July for a farm walk, a hearty lunch from the land, and and the chance to meet like-minded folks as we go about a seasonal farm activity all together!

Every month, we welcome you to the farm to get involved with what’s going on on the land. Join us in July for a farm walk, a hearty lunch from the land, and and the chance to meet like-minded folks as we go about a seasonal farm activity all together!

Every month, we welcome you to the farm to get involved with what’s going on on the land. Join us in July for a farm walk, a hearty lunch from the land, and and the chance to meet like-minded folks as we go about a seasonal farm activity all together!

Every month, we welcome you to the farm to get involved with what’s going on on the land. Join us in June for a farm walk, a hearty lunch from the land, and and the chance to meet like-minded folks as we go about a seasonal farm activity all together!

Every month, we welcome you to the farm to get involved with what’s going on on the land. Join us in May for a farm walk, a hearty lunch from the land, and and the chance to meet like-minded folks as we go about a seasonal farm activity all together!

Every month, we welcome you to the farm to get involved with what’s going on on the land. Join us in April for a farm walk, a hearty lunch from the land, and and the chance to meet like-minded folks as we go about a seasonal farm activity all together!

To mark the beginning of our ten-year tenancy at the National Trust farm Parc yr Arglwydd | Lords Park farm, we’re collaborating with NT to offer an open day to anyone interested in coming to find out more about us, who we are and what we’ve got planned here at Parc yr Arglwydd, this beautiful coastal farm above the three rivers estuary in Llansteffan, Carmarthenshire.

There’ll be TWO farm walks - one at 11am, and the other at 2pm. We’ll be talking about what we’ve got planned, initial thoughts on how the farm will be used and laid out, aswell as out broader long term vision for the farm, too. Whilst the tours are going on, there will be refreshments available, and members of the National Trust and of the Glasbren team will on hand to help. This is the perfect chance to come and ask any questions you might have and hear how you can get involved going forward.

The event is FREE and all are welcome. We’d love to see you there.

“The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now”

*** We’re now fully subscribed for our community tree planting day, but do look out for similar opportunities in the future! ***

Join us for a day of planting trees at Parc yr Arglwydd! We’ll be planting areas of the farm designated to become shelter belts, firewood coppice or community orchard.

No tree-planting experience necessary. We’ll be on hand to support with tree-planting technique, and it’ll be a fun, social day, including a hot, hearty lunch, hot drinks…. and a talk and tour.

We’ve got plenty of shelter if the weather isn’t great. Please do bring a spade if you have one, sturdy footwear and waterproof clothing.

If you’ve yet to visit Parc yr Arglwydd, you can find directions and information on public transport here. Drive right up to the farm, and parking with be clearly signposted. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to get in touch.

We’re excited to be hosting out local permaculture group - Paramaethu Sir Gar - for a ‘Helping Hands Day’ to help us got off to a running start into the new year, preparing the site to host volunteers, events and get our growing site going here at Lords Park. All are welcome, you don’t need to be a member of the group - it’s actually the perfect way to find out what they’re all about!

But it’s also our first gathering here at Glasbren’s new farm, so it’s a great opportunity to come and see what we‘re up to aswell!

Bring and share pot-luck lunch - so please do bring something along. Refreshments provided by us. We‘ll have a tour of the place, a walk around and then get stuck into something that needs doing on the farm! Inside or outside will depend on the weather!

Children welcome!

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Discover this revolutionary design framework for living a more regenerative, sustainable and healthy life. Whether it’s designing an edible garden, your farm, a community or organisation or your own life, permaculture offers a new way of seeing the world and a pathway to living within the ethics of earth care, people care and fair share.

Lunch provided - fresh, organic and vegan-friendly.

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Join us in the Peasants’ Kitchen as we show you how to turn your bumper harvest into simple, delicious and healthy meals using some simple skills for cooking with the seasons. We’ll help you shed your attachment to recipes and learn to cook with flair, creativity and flexibility, so that you can adapt to whatever is coming out of the garden or your weekly veg box. We’ll also show you how to store your harvest using fermentation and bottling methods and how to bring in some wild foods too!

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In this FREE* workshop, discover how to design and create a highly productive, biodiverse and ecologically rich garden or edible landscape. Sharing our story and our experience, and through key tools like permaculture design, we’ll show you how to create a food growing space that not only produces kilos of food for you and your household or community, but also that creates habitat for wildlife, stores water, makes use of waste and local resources, sequesters carbon and nurtures beneficial plant relationships. We'll cover regenerative design principles, soil building, companion planting, water storage, seed saving, crop planning and much, much more!

As ever, we’ll ground our teaching in our relationship to the land we’re tending, and the importance of intuition, connection and a listening ear when working with nature as a grower and steward of land.

This is a great opportunity to find out more about how we do things here at Glasbren, and to gain ideas and inspiration to take back to your growing space. These workshops also offer a great opportunity to meet other local growers and people passionate about growing food.

Lunch & refreshments provided.

*Donations welcome!

***Spaces Available!***

In this workshop, we’ll lay the basic foundations of growing your own food with and for nature. To become a truly regenerative presence on the patch of Earth we have chosen to tend, plant and harvest, we have to start with our own connection to that place, observe it’s unique character and seasonal changes and develop a kinship with the birds, insects, fungi and soil life that you share it with. We’ll share with you the techniques, skills and design approaches we’ve taken in our garden, as well as practices to help deepen our connection to our place & the natural world that supports us. This workshop will transform you way that you approach growing your own food - from soil and seeds to soul.

This workshop makes the perfect accompaniment to our ‘Designing Regenerative Foodscapes’ workshop on 2nd April. Together, they will set you up with both the bigger-picture design thinking you’ll need, as well as the practical skills to implementing your vision!

There’s a beautiful phrase in the native Welsh language of this land, ‘Dod yn ôl at Fy Nghoed’. Literally, it translates as ‘coming back to my trees’, but in its deeper meaning, carries something like ‘returning to a balanced state of mind’. When we feel uprooted, unbalanced, lonely or isolated, we yearn to ‘come back to our trees’, our community, the moist, fertile soil where we can thrive, a place where we can heal, replenish and regenerate.

Join us to experience the benefits of nature for your mental health and wellbeing. This will be a retreat like day where we’ll explore nature connection & practices we can take into our daily lives to activate the healing power of the natural world on a daily basis. Join us, learn new and empowering ways to improve your own wellbeing & deepen your relationship to nature, and spend a day ‘coming back to your trees’.

Lunch and refreshments provided.

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Foraging is not only a great way to get to know your local landscape, connect to nature and improve your health through medicinal plants, but it’s also a great way to save money! In all seasons, the Welsh landscape is full to bursting of food - in this workshop we’ll show you the basic foods that are easy to forage and what to do with them in the kitchen!

Do you feel fearful and numb in the face of climate crisis and ecological collapse? Do you struggle to face the future with hope and optimism? Through the pathways of Joanna Macy’s ‘The Work That Reconnects’, we’ll discover ways to cultivate active hope and find empowerment in our relationship with the living world and to face the world with new eyes.

**Fully Booked**

Are you thinking about starting your own allotment? Maybe you are designing a community growing space? Or perhaps you have a larger piece of land that you would like to transform into an abundant, resilient and regenerative food growing space for your family? This workshop will teach you the tools you need to design and implement a food growing project that not only produces lots of nutritious food, but also that offers habitat for wildlife, sequesters carbon, stores water and many other benefits for whole-system health and sustainability. Learn to design with nature, not against it, and unlock your imagination and a truly ecological way of thinking.

This workshop makes the perfect accompaniment to our ‘Growing with Nature - Seeds, Soil & Soul’ workshop on 16th April. Together, they will set you up with both the bigger-picture design thinking you’ll need, as well as the practical skills to implementing your vision!

Join us for the second of two days’ workshops to gather the community of Llansteffan to design and plan a new community garden space in the centre of the village. In this workshop, we’ll learn about the principles of growing food with nature, not against it. We’ll learn regenerative soil techniques, how to store water, how to work with seeds, techniques to reduce and reuse waste in the garden and the lessons natural ecosystems have for us for how we steward a piece of land - as well as much, much more!

We’ll unlock our imagination to vision a space that will produce an abundance of food for the community, habitat for birds, insects and soil life and a peaceful haven full of colour and life right in the centre of the village.

Beginners to vegetable growing welcomed! Lovers of healthy produce, fresh air & exercise welcomed! Those inspired by community garden benefits welcomed! This workshop will be offered free of charge, but donations towards the set up costs of the Community Garden are welcome.

Bring your own lunch. Refreshments provided.

Spaces are limited so get in quick! Please message Liz Dutch on 07813068103 if you're interested, by 20th Feb. Many thanks/Diolch yn fawr.

Join us for the first of two days’ workshops to gather the community of Llansteffan to design and plan a new community garden space in the centre of the village. In this workshop, we’ll learn about the principles of permaculture and regenerative design, to ensure that our shared food garden delivers health and vitality to the soil, our local biodiversity and to the people that will work in and enjoy it long into the future.

We’ll unlock our imagination to vision a space that will produce an abundance of food for the community, habitat for birds, insects and soil life and a peaceful haven full of colour and life right in the centre of the village.

Beginners to vegetable growing welcomed! Lovers of healthy produce, fresh air & exercise welcomed! Those inspired by community garden benefits welcomed! This workshop will be offered free of charge, but donations towards the set up costs of the Community Garden are welcome.

Bring your own lunch. Refreshments provided.

Spaces are limited so get in quick! Please message Liz Dutch on 07813068103 if you're interested, by 20th Feb. Many thanks/Diolch yn fawr.