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Can Cardiff Feed Itself? Event, 21st November, 2011
Discussion 1 notes- food growing opportunities/existing
projects
Flat Holm project- sheep, raised beds, chickens, renewable
energy sources: info:
[email protected]
Community garden in Llanrumney- allotments Possible correlation
between deprived areas and more under-utilised allotments in
the
Valleys
Communities' social capital important- e.g. if
funded/development worker leads, need to
consider how to make sustainable [without them long term]
Canton Community Garden
Small, good projects need to be encouraged and expanded
Need awareness/belief of need for local food growing to motivate
action
Household garden projects in Cardiff- e.g. local residents
help/share land/share food
Riding schools- flat, good arable land in the vicinity of the
city-Sully/Cardiff/Penarth- 1
dozen approx. Parks- allocate areas within every park for
community growing projects
Railway cuttings
School playgrounds
Corporate front gardens & grounds, dow corning [?]
Big houses
Country parks
Private houses with large gardens- garden share schemes
Traffic islands- i.e. Coryton & Leckwith
Flat roofs
Front gardens Large areas of small gardens joined together to
create shared growing areas
Fish & oysters in Cardiff Bay Retail Park & Bute
Dock
Grow in buildings & roof gardens
[farm or eat?] wallabies, pigeons, squirrels, seagulls, insects,
Japanese Knotweed?
Optimising crop usage
Britain in Broccoli- Tod Morden
Nut trees
Hedgerows
Greenhill School, Rhiwbina- new gardening project- community
input invited & welcomed
(Ally) possibility of guerilla planting
Networking
More ideas for being self sufficient
Plasnewydd Community Garden (off City Rd)- more community garden
projects; engaging
young people in this
Gwyrddio Penarth Greening- Penarth food festival
Cardiff Uni- outside union- potential for walled garden; Park
Place side, before it becomes a
car park
Green City- looking to organise urban growing activities and
demos throughout city to help
communicate issues to wider community. Next event at Chapter-
Festive Food Fair, 10th
December- www.greencityevents.co.uk
FCFCG- Tyfu Pobl programme- support for development and
management of wide range of
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community growing spaces- offers advice, resources, travel
bursaries, training & networking
events. Www.farmgarden.org.uk/wales
Barriers
Lack of council funds Huge waiting lists
Theft of produce & security
Enclosure Act, 1245- an allotment is an enclosure of land
Are you advocating we go backwards?
Discussion 2 notes
How could we compost human manure in Cardiff?
Public compost toilets
Poo PR/rebranding as a resource
Someone has to empty it
Wee batteries
Mass technological change & investment
Miniature [anaerobic] digestors
education about toilet waste- e.g. take paint to tip, trips to
sewers
What might the first steps be?
Poo crew- engage the public with poo
Money for compost Poo food [!]
Sheep poo cards- people poo?
What steps might a Transition project take to address labour
market issues?
Make everybody do a little bit of volunteer work in a local
garden project
Reduce work hours: create more part time; jobs for more people;
more time for shared food
production
Overthrow capitalism
Redefine value systems
Taffs [local currency]- www.cardifftaffs.org.uk
More involvement- wide options, mass movement
Trade unions
Reskilling- outreach
Focus on jobs that meet the communities' needs
Promote voluntary schemes such as land Share, repairs, Cardiff
Taffs, production of
sustainable green jobs & be recognised/rewarded for their
efforts/contribution, even if paid
using alternative currency
Education
Skills bank
Prevent big business buying land
More cooperatives
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Who would be useful to work with?
Community supported agriculture projects
Social enterprises
Community gardens Community currency projects
Time banking schemes
Everybody (on their merits)- not only children [this is my
favourite- sue]
Nature
People like Ben Law (experienced home builder)
Occupy movement- talks/workshops
People who work with horses, for traditional land work
Unemployed bored people who want to do something something
useful for the community
Solar power specialists
Farmer in the morning, factory worker in the afternoon,
philosopher in the evening (KarlMarx)
Prince Charles
Kids
Local government
Artists
Newspapers/journalists
Farmers
