Tyfu Aber Grow
Growing food in Aberystwyth can reduce food miles, build food security and skills, and promote a healthy food culture. Growing food is good for our wellbeing and wildlife.
Find out how you can get involved with growing food locally, and check out Hannah’s blog on growing food in the Aberystwyth castle here.
Join our facebook group ‘Tyfu Aber Grow’ where we post volunteer growing activities, or join our volunteer team and receive our weekly newsletter with activity details.
Penglais Community Garden
Head over to Penglais Community Gardens website to get involved in community growing. The community garden is always looking for helpful hands who are eager to learn how to grow food, or share their food growing knowledge.
Aberystwyth Seed Library
The seed library is hosted in the ECO Food Sharing Hub, where you can collect and drop off your seeds.
The idea is that you can take the seeds, grow some food, and then save some of the seeds, and bring them back in. Over time, we will help the seeds adjust to our local climate, making them more productive and resilient to our local and changing climate. We will be making more seeds for more people to grow more food!
You can see what is available in the seed library here:
See our opening hours here.
Check out Real Seeds for more information:
What you need to start growing food:
Seeds, compost, water, and a container!
During the Covid19 pandemic we saw a huge interest in people who would like to grow food. Seeds have sold out quickly with the shelves in Charlies looking bare, and companies like ‘Real Seeds’ and Vital Seeds seeing increases in demand for seed. Many people have struggled to get hold of good seed.
It is so important for us to start sharing and saving seeds so we can always have the ability to grow our own food. Read more from Real Seeds here. Additionally, there has been a rise in demand for compost.
With so much food wasted locally and so many vegetable choppings and peelings going in our green bins each week this should not be something we fall short of, or something that we would need to import. We have the potential to produce more compost locally. Read more about compost, and how to make compost without a compost heap here (useful if you live in an urban area and are worried about rodents).