Community Supported Agriculture CSA Cluster Group – Winter 2021 meet up - Cyfarfod Grwp Amaethyddiaeth a Gefnogir gan y Gymuned (AGG) – Cyfarfod Gaeaf 2021

Following on from the success of our Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) Summer Gathering, we will be hosting another meeting for any members of our CSA cluster group, or those interested in CSA, to attend.

Where: Henbant Permaculture farm and Trigonos

When: Tuesday 2nd November 2021 12.00pm - 4.30pm & Wednesday 3rd November 9:30am - 12.30pm 

*Please note this event is for Welsh CSA sites only*
 

Community Supported Agriculture CSA Cluster Group – Winter 2021 meet up

You are invited to join us up in North Wales for the Winter CSA Cluster Group Meet up. It will be held over two days – Tuesday 2nd November and Wednesday 3rd November. The visits will focus on CSA practices and a chance to gather, network and share best practice. Staff members from Social Farms and Gardens Cymru will also be on hand, and there will be an opportunity to join a Community Land Advisory Service (CLAS) workshop. 

Unfortunately, we are unable to provide accommodation as part of the Winter meet-up but can provide details of a variety of beautiful places to stay around the area. Please mail [email protected] for further information.

12pm Tuesday 2nd November 2021

Meet at Henbant Permaculture Farm, Clynnog Fawr near Caernarfon. Lunch will be provided on arrival and a tour of the site will start at 1pm. We will have a chance to hear all about Henbant’s journey and farming practices, there will be an opportunity to ask plenty of questions and network with other CSA’s.

Henbant use Permaculture, Holistic Management and Agro-Ecological methods to grow veg, meat, eggs and milk, but on a small and regenerative human scale that provides food and fuel for their home, visitors and the local community.

9:30am Wednesday 3rd November 2021

We will meet at Trigonos in the Dyffryn Nantlle for a tour of the centre and get some background to the 25-year journey, their new partnership with Ruskin Mill Trust and look at the biodynamic farming practices implemented here. 

Trigonos is an 18-acre estate, nestled in the quiet Dyffryn Nantlle Valley in Snowdonia. The estate includes meadowland, small woodlands, a stream running down to the lake, a field for growing vegetables, salads and fruits for their kitchen and beautiful peaceful spaces to enjoy and retreat.

1pm - Wednesday 3rd November 2021

For anyone interested in orchard production processes, we move to Pant Du Vineyard and Orchard, just down the road from Trigonos, for lunch (provided). This is followed by the launch of Social Farms and Gardens new work programme which includes Productive Orchards

Pant Du will take us on a tour - we will hear how they have gone from planting to product and see their processing systems. Following this, we will meet for a short presentation on Productive Community Orchards and a Community Land Advisory Service (CLAS) workshop (as on Day One).

Pant Du Vineyard is a commercial operation who began started their journey in 2007 and located on the beautiful slopes of the Nantlle Valley, Snowdonia.  Pant Du is a family run Vineyard and Orchard producing wine, cider, apple juice, spring water and honey with 18 acres of planted apple trees.

For anyone interested in attending the Orchards session on the 3rd November, you can sign up to the event seperately here.

Places are limited so book early to avoid disappointment

Resilient Green Spaces is a £1.27m partnership project being led by Social Farms & Gardens to pilot alternative re-localised food systems using communities and their green spaces as the driving force for change across Wales until June 2023. The project has received funding through the Welsh Government Rural Communities – Rural Development Programme 2014-2020, which is funded by the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development and the Welsh Government. 

*Plis nodwch mai safleodd AGG Cymreig yn unig yw’r diwgyddiad yma*

Cyfarfod Grwp Amaethyddiaeth a Gefnogir gan y Gymuned (AGG) – Cyfarfod Gaeaf 2021

Fe'ch gwahoddir i ymuno â ni yng Ngogledd Cymru ar gyfer Cyfarfod Grŵp Clwstwr AGG nesaf. Byddwn yn cyfarfod dros dau ddiwrnod – dydd Mawrth 2ail o Dachwedd a ddydd Mercher 3ydd o Dachwedd. Bydd yr ymweliadau'n canolbwyntio ar arferion AGG a chyfle i chi rhwydweithio a rhannu arfer gorau. Bydd aelodau o Ffermydd a Gerddi Cymdeithasol Cymru hefyd yn ymuno â'r sesiwn, a bydd cyfle i ymuno â gweithdy'r Gwasanaeth Cynghori ar Dir Cymunedol (CLAS). 

Yn anffodus, ni allwn ddarparu llety fel rhan o gyfarfod y Gaeaf, ond gallwn ddarparu manylion am amrywiaeth o leoedd hardd i aros o amgylch yr ardal.  Anfonwch [email protected] i gael rhagor o wybodaeth.

12 yh dydd Mawrth 2ail o Dachwedd.

Cwrdd draw yn Fferm Permaddiwylliant Henbant, Clynnog Fawr ger Caernarfon. Byddwn yn cychwyn gyda cinio a cyflwyniadau, wedyn taith o amgylch y safle yn cychwyn am 1yh. Cawn gyfle i glywed popeth am arferion ffermio Henbant, bydd cyfle i ofyn cwestiynau a amser i rwydweithio.

Mae Henbant  yn defnyddio dulliau Permaddiwylliant, Rheoli Cyfannol ag Amaeth-Ecolegol i dyfu llysiau, cig, wyau a llaeth, ond ar raddfa ddynol fach ac adfywiol sy'n darparu bwyd a thanwydd ar gyfer eu cartref, ymwelwyr a'r gymuned leol.

9:30yb Dydd Mercher 3 Tachwedd 2021

Byddwn yn cyfarfod yng Nghanolfan Trigonos draw yn Nyffryn Nantlle am daith o amgylch y safle, cael clywed hanes ei taith dros y 25 mlynedd diwethaf, eu partneriaeth newydd gydag Ymddiriedolaeth Melin Ruskin ac yn edrych ar eu harferion ffermio biodynamig. 

Ystâd 18 erw yw Trigonos, sy'n swatio yng nghwm tawel Dyffryn Nantllle, Eryri. Mae'r ystâd yn cynnwys dolydd, coetiroedd bach, nant sy'n rhedeg i lawr i'r llyn, cae ar gyfer tyfu llysiau, saladau a ffrwythau ar gyfer eu cegin a mannau heddychlon hardd i'w mwynhau.

1yh Dydd Mercher 3 Tachwedd 2021 

I unrhyw un â ddiddordeb mewn prosesau perllan cynhyrchiol, symudwn i Winllan a Pherllan Pant Du, ychydig i lawr y ffordd o chanolfan Trigonos, i gael cinio (darperir).  Byddwn yn lansio prosiect Perllannau sydd yn rhan o rhaglen waith newydd Gerddi a Ffermydd Cymdeithasol.

Bydd Pant Du yn mynd â ni ar daith - byddwn yn clywed sut maent wedi mynd o blannu i gynnyrchu a gweld eu systemau prosesu. Yn dilyn hyn, byddwn yn cyfarfod am gyflwyniad byr ar Berllannau Cymunedol Cynhyrchiol a gweithdy Gwasanaeth Cynghori ar Dir Cymunedol (CLAS) (fel ar ddiwrnod Un).

Mae Pant Du yn weithred fasnachol a ddechreuodd ar eu taith yn 2007 ac sydd wedi'i lleoli ar lethrau hardd Dyffryn Nantlle, Eryri.  Mae Pant Du yn Winllan a Pherllan sy'n cael ei rhedeg gan y teulu sy'n cynhyrchu gwin, seidr, sudd afal, dŵr ffynnon a mêl gyda 18 erw o goed afalau wedi'u plannu.

Mae lleoedd yn gyfyngedig, felly trefnwch le yn gynnar i osgoi cael eich siomi.

Mae Mannau Gwyrdd Gwydn yn brosiect partneriaeth gwerth £1.27m sy'n cael ei arwain gan Ffermydd a Gerddi Cymdeithasol i dreialu systemau bwyd eraill sydd wedi'u hail-leoleiddio gan ddefnyddio cymunedau a'u mannau gwyrdd fel y sbardun ar gyfer newid ledled Cymru tan fis Mehefin 2023.