Social Farms & Gardens is calling out for Welsh communities who want to plant edible fruit and nut trees or begin processing new fruit and nut products as part of our Productive Community Orchards project. ALSO, our National Allotment Development team are seeking landowners or land-seekers to help develop new allotment sites across Wales, both project are viral strands of our £1.27 million Resilient Green Spaces project.

Resilient Green Spaces is a partnership project being led by Social Farms & Gardens to pilot alternative re-localised food systems using communities and their green spaces as a driving force for change across Wales until June 2023. The project is funded through the Welsh Government Rural Communities - Rural Development Programme 2014-2020, which is funded by the Welsh Government and the European Union.

“We’re thrilled to launch our second call-out for Productive Community Orchard sites,”

said Gary Mitchell, Social Farms & Gardens joint Wales Manager,

“this work comes on the back of our hugely successful first round of applications and also our Orchard for Wales project in 2020. This time, we’re looking to support ten existing or new community sites to plant around 100 edible fruit and nut trees each and help them to store and process their produce. Please get in touch with us if you’ve been thinking about either.”

“If you’re a landowner, or a land-seeking community in Wales, we want to hear from you!”

said Dr Nicola Perkins, Social Farms & Gardens joint Wales Manager,

“we will be focusing our time and resources on 10 large allotment sites, we are particularly interested in areas with high levels of food poverty and low levels of Green infrastructure and bio-diversity.”