We’ve put together a directory of useful resources, tips and advice to help our community work together to create a healthier, sustainable, and fairer local food system in Carmarthenshire.
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Good Food Tips & Advice
- Look out for the Welsh produce branding – often the Welsh flag on supermarket displays, labelings and online listings
- Read the value of Welshness research from Business Wales
- Tag your local favourites on your social channels to help spread the word
- Food storage tips and hacks
- Tips, hacks and guidance to reduce food waste
- Read the Eatwell Guide – Welsh Government Advice on how to eat a healthy diet
- Use in season vegetables. Find out what veg are in season here
- Use Merlin’s Magic peat-free compost (made of green waste) at Cwm Environmental
- Explore simple growing guides from Garden Organics
- Social Farms & Gardens guides for community orchards, apple pressing and community composting
- Try a weekly food routine to minimise waste
Good Food Resources
- Find Good Food businesses in the Bwyd Sir Gâr Food Listings
- Find markets across Carmarthenshire
- Find a veg box at the Soil Association
- Find Good Food businesses in the Bwyd Sir Gâr Food Listings
- Learn new skills with Coleg Sir Gar’s catering and hospitality courses
- Find healthy recipes at Nutrition Skills for Life
- Find markets across Carmarthenshire
- Find seasonal recipes at Riverford
- Find healthy recipes at Nutrition Skills for Life
- Free seeds form the Incredible Seed Library
- Join the Incredible Edible Carmarthenshire Facebook group
- Learn new skills with Coleg Sir Gar’s horticulture courses
- Learn new skills with Coleg Sir Gar’s agriculture courses
- See community growing volunteering opportunities across the county
- Find an allotment at Carmarthenshire registry of growing sites
- See activities and events at the National Botanic Garden of Wales
- Get ‘Bake Your Lawn and see how you can grow wheat and make a loaf
- Explore Royal Horticultural Society school gardening resources
- See WWF school growing resources
- Explore Food for Life growing resources
- Carmarthenshire’s annual seed swapping and growing event
- Set up a seed circle
- Buy seeds from Wales’ Seed Hub
- Community green spaces toolkit
- A guide to starting your own community meal
- Find Food Banks and more in the Bwyd Sir Gâr Food Listings
- A guide to starting a community kitchen
- Find local food and sharing networks with Olio
- Too Good to Go – the surplus food marketplace
- Carmarthenshire County Council Composting Guide
- Welsh recipes to try and share
- Hunt for local food festivals and events at Discover Carmarthenshire
- Carmarthenshire food stories
- Directory of Welsh food and drink producers
- Food and drink jobs in Wales