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Introducing Lottie Williams, our new Volunteer Coordinator

We’d like to wish a warm welcome to our new Volunteer Coordinator, Lottie Williams! We’re really excited to see how she’ll enhance and improve our volunteer offering. Click here to read in Lottie’s own words (she’s also a published writer) about why place and community is so important to her, and how she’ll bring that into her work with Glasbren.

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Hadau - sowing the seeds of Spring and celebrating Welsh seed stories

In Wales, these seed stories matter profoundly - they are part of a wider cultural remembering, reconnecting people to language, landscape and lineage, and affirming a quiet sovereignty over our food and future. To save seed, then, is an act of care and resistance, a commitment to carry forward not only diversity in our fields, but the stories, relationships and belonging that make a culture whole.

That’s what our March Community Farm day was all about - let’s have a look at Jason Elberts’ photo story of the day…

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Happy New Year | Blwyddyn Newydd Dda - 5 ways to step into 2026 with purpose

Blwyddyn Newydd Dda! Happy New Year! We’d like to wish you a joyful, healthy, fruitful and fulfilling 2026.

As the bells ring on a new year, we all start thinking to positive changes, actions and affirmations we can make for the new year. Here are 5 ways we can help you step into 2026 with purpose - for your health and wellbeing and for the planet.

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LEAP - Real funding for real food and farming businesses

In 2024, we were successful in securing support from the Real Farming Trust’s LEAP (Loans for Enlightened Agriculture) programme, which has been transformational in realising our vision for Lords Park farm. Earlier this year, Jason Taylor from The Source Image visited us to hear more about the impact it’s made.

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Happy New Year! Do you want to plant trees with us in 2025?

Blwyddyn Newydd Dda! Happy New Year! We’d like to wish you a joyful, healthy, fruitful and fulfilling 2025. As the bells ring on a new year, we all start thinking to positive changes, actions and affirmations we can make for the new year. Well, what better one than planting trees? Join us on Saturday 1st February 2025 for a Big Community Tree Planting Day!

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We’re Hiring! - Co-Head Grower

We are looking for a Co-Head grower to coordinate the production of vegetables, herbs, fruits and salads, using agroecological principles, for our CSA weekly member shares, wholesale customers, our farm shop and for our events.

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Glasbren has a new home! - Fferm Parc yr Arglwydd | Lords Park Farm, Llansteffan

We have some big news to share with you all. We can finally announce that Glasbren has a new home - Parc yr Arglwydd | Lords Park Farm! We have been given this incredible opportunity to become the stewards and tenants of this special National Trust farm on the cliffs above the Three Rivers Estuary, just a few miles South of our current site in Carmarthenshire. Read more…

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Cegin y Werin #6 - A Sip of Sunshine for Summer Solstice | St. Johns Wort & Meadowsweet

Summer Solstice, midsummer, the longest day and shortest night, when the Earth is in it’s highest abundance, the land is bulging with the coming harvest, for our Druidic celtic forebears, Alban Hefin ‘The light of Summer’ or ‘the light of the shore’.

At this turning point of the seasons, there are two plants in the fields and hedgerows around us that are classic signs of the Solstice - St. John’s Wort and Meadowsweet.

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Cegin y Werin #5 - Calan Mai || Mint, Fennel & Lemon Balm

As we mark the beginning of Summer on Calan Mai, we explore some of it’s Welsh traditions & ways to celebrate this seasonal transition, as well as three herbs having their moment in the land right now - Mint, Fennel & Lemon Balm!

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Exciting Events Coming Up This Autumn….

As the days grow shorter and the growing season comes to an end, we’ve got an exciting programme of events through October and November to give us all plenty of opportunities to gather in warm spaces and talk about growing, permaculture and the future of food!

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What are the benefits of CSA membership for food insecure households?

In 2021, we took part in a pilot study with TGrains, to explore the role CSA veg box schemes could play in building food security, removing barriers to local, fresh and seasonal vegetables and improving health and wellbeing. The final report is launched today as part of the Food in Communities conference in Carmarthen - and Abel summarises our part in it in this article.

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