Funding awarded for community garden

PENNARD Community Council have been awarded funding to set up a ‘Gardd Gwenynen’ (honey bee garden) – a community garden within the Pennard Ward.

Perfectly positioned between the local primary school and the community hall, the garden will be a space to support and enhance the physical, mental, social and emotional health of the community and a space to benefit and protect the natural environment too.

A community composting area will be set up using different sized hot tumblers for a mixture of abilities.

Bee hives will be established for local honey and raised beds built at a variety of heights for growing vegetables, salads and herbs.

Trees and bushes will be planted for fruit and pollinators, along with native wildflowers.

The food will be planted, grown, harvested and eaten by school children, community members and also benefit anyone on our community Pefta scheme (Pennard Emergency Food and Technology Assistance).

A spokesman for the project said: “We are eager to establish this innovative and inclusive pilot project which could be rolled out across other rural wards in Swansea and Gower. From the micro to the macro – we need them to realise that they are not separate from nature, but are indeed a part of nature. This is why this project matters.

“We are absolutely thrilled to have been awarded this grant and are incredibly grateful to the LAG for seeing the potential in our project. We aim to create a fantastic community resource working closely with Pennard Primary School and the wider community.”

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, and supported by Swansea Rural Development Partnership at Swansea Council from Swansea’s Rural Development Partnership.

To find out more about the project go to www.pennardcc.org. uk and www.facebook.com/ Pennardcommunitycouncil