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…

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.

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!

In the edges and edges and the woodland beyond the garden, the lush green leaves of some of the sentinel plants of Spring are lush and full - Dandelion, nettle and in the shade of budding trees, wild garlic carpets the woodland floor.

On Saturday 4th March 2023, we hosted Seedy Saturday Carmarthen 2023 for the second time! Jason from A Great Alternative was our photographer for the day, and here’s a photo essay showing some the best of his work.

Soon the harvest season will come to an end, too. So, this week, we thought we’d share with you a few alternative ways to celebrate Calan Gaeaf, to join with us in marking the end of an abundant growing year…

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!

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.

as we celebrate the third annual World Localisation Day, I wanted to reflect on the role local food networks and supply chains like our community-supported agriculture scheme play in this movement, and why local food matters beyond just the low-hanging fruit of the keeping our food spend in the local economy - local food networks and a relationship with where our food comes from can act as a vessel for social, cultural and ecological change.

We recently took part in a pilot with Food Sense Wales to see how support for small-scale, community-based and agroecological farms could increase veg production in Wales. Find out more here…

There’s a beautiful phrase in the native Welsh language of this land, ‘Dod Nol a Fy Nghoed’. Literally, it translates as ‘coming back to my trees’, but in its deeper meaning, carries something like ‘returning to a balanced state of mind’. It’s no coincidence, I think, that a balanced state of mind finds us amongst the trees, in the forest, one of the most therapeutic and healing places for us.

Moo and Llama, members of the Wales Seed Hub, tell us about how this unique seed-selling co-op, now offering gardeners a range of Welsh-grown, heritage and amateur vegetable varieties, got started.

We’ve got lots of exciting things planned for 2022 - here’s all the info you need about this year’s veg boxes, our special events and workshops, what we’re building and what new projects we’re getting into and what you can expect from Glasbren this year!

Winter Solstice is a time to come out of hibernation to celebrate with our community, to feast and be generous, light candles and fires, sing and tell stories. It’s a time to herald the rebirth of the sun and rejoice in the returning of the light. Brighter days are ahead and Spring isn’t far away!

Meet James and Clare from One Planet Organics, one of the collective of agroecological veg growers who help to fill the gaps in our harvest and increase the variety of our veg boxes.

This month, we welcome our friend & collaborator Dr Anna-Marie Young. She is a writer and grower at her family farm, C&M Organics in Hebron, Pembrokeshire - one of the growers who help us fill the gaps in our veg boxes. Her written work focuses on landscape and identity, but she’s mainly found knee deep in mud on her family’s organic farm.