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.

Free workshops
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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
Fruit tree pruning workshop
by Jake Rayson/ on 04 Jan 2025

Fruit tree pruning workshop

Martin Hayes has a lifetime‘s experience of planting and pruning fruit trees.

Design
Where does the water go?
by Jake Rayson/ on 30 Dec 2024

Where does the water go?

The site of the Hope Garden is at the lower end of a clay rhos pasture field in West Wales.

News
Grassland Nature ID
by Jake Rayson/ on 21 Dec 2024

Grassland Nature ID

Like many people in Wales, I seem to have several projects on the go simultaneously!

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