Something hopeful this way comes

Community space at the heart of a wildlife forest garden

Providing an experimental toolkit to create a community meeting space surrounded by a thriving, productive wildlife garden. Situated in north Pembrokeshire, West Wales, UK. Free workshops now available.

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Enabling direct democracy & nature recovery

Working with communities

Our partners are local communities and organisations, working together to build not just a community garden but also a toolkit for everyone that wants to create their own space for direct democracy and nature recovery.
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Workshops
Perennial Veg workshop with Stephanie Hafferty
by Jake Rayson/ on 16 Oct 2024

Perennial Veg workshop with Stephanie Hafferty

The free Hope Garden workshops continued with a visit to Stephanie Hafferty’s Half Acre Homestead near Lampeter, where she showed the fully subscribed and assembled crowd a range of perennial and perennialised annual vegetables in her chokka garden.

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Glittering ideas for the Hope Garden
by Jake Rayson/ on 20 Sep 2024

Glittering ideas for the Hope Garden

Marianne and myself had the honour of running a garden design workshop for Ysgol Cilgerran on Friday 20th September, with the same group who came to the Wildlife ID workshop.

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Grant approved purposes
by Jake Rayson/ on 15 Sep 2024

Grant approved purposes

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We are all crew

The team

Jake Rayson

Jake Rayson

Wildlife forest garden designer
Beth Otway

Beth Otway

Horticulturist and garden writer
Denise Ashurst

Denise Ashurst

Gardener & community activist
Martin Hayes

Martin Hayes

Orchardist