Growing food in Aberystwyth can reduce food miles, build food security and skills, and promote a healthy food culture. Growing food is good for our wellbeing and wildlife.
Join the Food Revolution!!! Tyfu Aber Grow are using Community and disused spaces in Aberystwyth to grow food for the community and change the local food system!
The Radish Patch in center of town is flourishing
Tyfu Aber Grow are collaborating with the Penglais Community Garden.
About Us
We are a community of growers located near Aberystwyth Arts Centre. The Penglais Community Garden is a ‘community garden’, managed by local people for general enjoyment and use. It began as a student initiative, supported by Aberystwyth University.
Our objective is to create a space for people to grow, to learn about growing food, planting in a wildlife friendly manner, and to provide a quiet space for people visiting the university and Arts Centre to just sit and enjoy their lunch!
It is run as something for anyone with an interest in gardening and growing from the Aberystwyth area to get involved with. We produce a bumper harvest each year which is shared between the volunteers.
The community garden is always looking for helpful hands who are eager to learn how to grow food, or share their food growing knowledge. During the Covid-19 pandemic we have been careful in restricting access to the site. We established a rota to ensure only one person on the site at a time, and biosecurity protocols to wash down watering cans, tools etc. Our harvest might have been less productive than previous years but we’ve done alright!! And Aber has done alright too, with lots of initiatives and activities supporting and encouraging growers in recent months.
For many of us the garden has provided a great therapeutic outlet during testing times and continues to do so. This is one of the brilliant things about gardens and gardening.
We coordinate our activities through email and now have a few more people (socially distanced) on the site for the odd gardening session. With 12 growing beds and some repairs and maintenance on the site to carry out we know there are things to do over autumn and winter and we would like to involve people interested in gardening and outdoor activity.
Given Coronavirus has not gone away we will make sure anything we can do in future is organised in a responsible, safe and useful manner. We hope to provide details of what we are planning and how people might be involved in the next couple of weeks.
In the meantime, if you want to be on the mailing list or keep informed or even get involved with the garden either:
Aberystwyth Seed Library
The seed library is hosted in the ECO Food Sharing Hub, where you can collect and drop off your seeds.
The idea is that you can take the seeds, grow some food, and then save some of the seeds, and bring them back in. Over time, we will help the seeds adjust to our local climate, making them more productive and resilient to our local and changing climate. We will be making more seeds for more people to grow more food!
You can see what is available in the seed library here: 