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Nature ID hope project
by Jake Rayson/ on 27 Oct 2024

Nature ID hope project

Together with West Wales Biodiversity Information Centre, we’ve made a Expression of Interest for wildlife identification equipment and training for Ysgol Cilgerran from Transition Bro Gwaun Community Climate Fund.

Design
Species on my mind
by Jake Rayson/ on 26 Oct 2024

Species on my mind

Yusef from West Wales Biodiversity Information Centre ran an ecology survey at the site of the Hope Garden.

News
Mint challenge with Mintopia
by Jake Rayson/ on 26 Oct 2024

Mint challenge with Mintopia

Ysgol Cilgerran, via the Hope Garden, is going to take part in the IntMintMint Challenge run by Si Poole.

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.

Education
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.

News
Grant approved purposes
by Jake Rayson/ on 15 Sep 2024

Grant approved purposes

The approved purposes summarise the project described in your application. We have used the details you gave us in your application to create your approved purposes.

Workshops
The Hope Garden Is Go
by Jake Rayson/ on 14 Sep 2024

The Hope Garden Is Go

Maybe because of the relatively low number of guests, the workshop at Cilgerran Village Hall felt really productive and engaged, and covered a lot of ground, explaining the ideas behind the community space in a wildlife forest garden that is the Hope Garden.