Yr Ardd

Project Yr Ardd, is an exciting new community gardening project based on the outskirts of Llandysul/Pontweli with aims to bring the local community together to face not only climate change but cultural change too.

During the initial stages of the pandemic in 2020 a partnership of local community support groups and individuals came together. The project’s leaders have very wide-ranging connections with different interests – gardening, language, beekeeping, seed saving and many more and they identified a disused allotment site on the edge of the village and began negotiating with Sir Gar Council’s estates department to secure a long-term lease. The site, which was originally provided as an offset to the bypass works, comprises of approximately half an acre divided into eight smaller plots all with water standpipes and divided by gravel paths.

Ieuenctid Tysul Youth, has managed to secure a “Community Growing Kit” through Keep Wales Tidy and Social Farms and Gardens, which comprises of raised beds, wildflower turf, fruit trees, vegetable seeds, a greenhouse and garden shed as well as a wide selection of tools to start work, with additional funding secured through the National Lottery’s community green spaces fund to oversee the project through 2021.

In March 2021 Yr Ardd was awarded a CLAS Community Management Award from Social farms and Gardens to acknowledge the success that they have achieved to date in gaining access to land for their projects.The Awards also recognise the hard work in getting a community green space project started. Social Farms & Gardens is a UK wide charity supporting communities to farm, garden and grow together.

A copy of the Yr Ardd site resilience plan can be seen here