Nourishing Traditions Project - Your Kitchen Garden; planning and sowing

This month we will meet at the Field of Beans Community Garden in Blaenffos (https://ffynnon.org.uk/the-field-of-beans/), where we will learn:

• what, when and how to grow food in your back garden and on your window-sills
• how to sow seeds and tend to them with ease and success
• practical ways to provide some food for you and your family, all year round

The Real Health Collective CIC’s project, 'Nourishing Traditions; Old Ways For Future Days', offers free monthly workshops for families, to support you to build practical, emotional and community resilience and to feel more empowered, in light of a changing climate. All ages welcome! This project has been kindly funded through the National Lottery Community Fund’s ‘Sustainable Steps Wales’ grant.

During each workshop, which will be set in one of west Wales's many inspiring eco-projects, local sustainability experts and enthusiasts will share simple traditional, rural and land-based skills for you to be able to easily and cheaply replicate in your own homes.

Each workshop will also offer the opportunity for you to sit in circle and explore the emotional complexities of living and raising children in challenging times, held by experienced Circle Facilitator, Naomi Glass (https://www.realhealthcollective.com/directors).

Our hope and vision is that this project is part of an essential global movement working towards bringing the ‘village’ (in terms of skills for resilience and wisdom-sharing as part of an inter-generational community) back to the people. We want you to leave our workshops feeling more empowered, skilled and hopeful than when you arrived!

Over one year, this series of regular workshops and seasonal celebrations will inspire and empower local parents/ carers and families based in Ceredigion, Pembrokeshire and Carmarthenshire, from all walks of life, to feel more connected with themselves, local traditions, nature and with their local communities.