Increasing agroecological farming in the Cardiff region: an initial exploration
A new Fringe Farming report from our Cardiff partner, Food Cardiff (part of Food Sense Wales), summarises the barriers, opportunities and potential actions for growing the movement for peri-urban agroecology around Cardiff. As a result of the report’s publication, in 2023 Food Cardiff and partners will convene a Fringe Farming working group, which will look at how to take forward this work across the Cardiff Capital Region.
The Fringe Farming project, led by Sustain, is a collaboration with partners across the UK to understand barriers, identify opportunities and local actions, and inform national policies to enable agroecological market gardening at the edges of town and cities as part of a green economic recovery.
In 2022, Cardiff joined the programme to undertake action planning to highlight opportunities, barriers, and the resources that might be required for the next steps.
In December, a report was published summarising the barriers, opportunities and potential actions which the 22 stakeholders identified during a workshop hosted in November.
As a result, Food Cardiff and partners will convene a Fringe Farming working group this year, which will look at how to take this work forward across the Cardiff Capital Region.
If you are interested in finding out more about the Fringe Farming project in Cardiff or being part of future discussions please contact foodsensewales@wales.nhs.uk
Read the Cardiff Fringe Farming report
Main text was adapted from the original that was written by Food Sense Wales.
Published Monday 19 December 2022
Fringe Farming: The Fringe Farming project is a collaboration with partners across the UK to understand barriers, identify land opportunities and local actions, and develop national policy to enable agroecological farming at the edge of cities as part of a green economic recovery.
