During Autumn 2020 volunteers at Lampeter Food Project started to plan how they could provide their local community in lampeter with more fresh food.
By early spring 2021 plans had been made to have 15 beds for growing vegetables, and a herb garden, there was also the aim to have a Garden area at the Victoria hall as well as any other opportunites that came up in and around Lampeter town. Currently the garden space is being developed and prepared with resources mainly being donated by local businesses and people.
Call for Seeds
The volunteers put a call out for seed donations, and they weren't dissapointed....
Oooh look what arrived in the post today we’ve had some fantastic donations of seeds we will be using for our gardening project.
What to do on a rainy day? we’ll bring the garden in doors. Hope everyone is having a good weekend despite the weather
There have been a lot of donations towards the project, and in return all produce grown in the project will go back into the local community through community meals and the Lampeter Food Project.
Several other organisations in Lampeter have caught the gardening bug so seeds are being planted for these projects and will be cared for in the Food Project's greenhouses while the growing spaces across Lampeter are developed. There is a constant change over of what is going on in the greenhouses, the compost bin is getting fuller and there is a really exciting process happening to get the spaces up and running.
The hope is that by summer there will be more visible activity and the opportunity for more people to get involved, whether they have gardening experience or just want to lend a hand and learn from others as they dig and get these spaces in Lampeter filled with plants.
Cooking School
Tesco community cookery school with Jamie Oliver
Lesson 1
Veggie Chilli with rice
The next recipe is for Fishcake with Coleslaw recipe which the volunteers will be cooking over the Bank Holiday weekend, once they've all had a go the video will be uploaded onto the facebook page.
This has been a great experience and we are having a lot of fun doing these videos. We are now looking at doing regular cooking videos for our page, with ingredients that we have available at the project, so people can access the ingredients easily too.
