Current Projects
Food hub
The food hubs aim is to support a thriving local food system through education, production, support and collaboration. Our focus is on supporting and developing environmentally and economically sustainable food networks – by supporting local producers.
Orchard Project
Cultivate have won funding via Social Farms and Gardens and The Welsh Government for planting orchards of fruit trees and bushes including Welsh Heritage varieties in and around the Newtown area.
Carbon Tuck Shop
Carbon Tuck Shop was initially a hands-on "shop" that was presented during Climate Cymru Week 23. Currently, it's under development as an educational resource dedicated to examining the embodied carbon within our food system.
Branching Out
Volunteering in Community Green Spaces
Cultivate is launching a new project with grant funding from Wales Council for Voluntary Action (WCVA) to breathe new life into our community gardens and orchards.
Food Champions
Our Food Champions are individuals or organizations in our community who work tirelessly to ensure that everyone has access to healthy, nutritious and affordable food and hold our belief that good food should be a universal right.
Windowsill Growing
Community workshops over winter 23 aimed at getting the community to grow microgreens on their windowsills
Growing Food Together
Through experiential learning of how to grow fresh, nutritious fruit and vegetables from seed, and by teaching people through demonstration how to cook fresh, nutritious food on a budget.
Wellbeing in Green Spaces
Wellbeing in Green Spaces offers wellbeing sessions based on growing food, and nature conservation in our public parks.
Edible Trail
Mapping foraging walks Newtown's green spaces.
Foraging wild edibles is a fun and rewarding activity that can bring you closer to nature and provide you with fresh and healthy food.
Tuesday Gardening Group
Eat and Meet
Cultivate hosts a shared lunch for volunteers, staff, and friends to eat and socialize.
Micro Allotments
There are micro allotments for hire and communal spaces to enjoy - open lawn, a round house, BBQ and a wildlife area with a pond.
Llys Glan yr Afon
We maintain the garden and support residents at Llys Glan ar Afon extra care facility in Newtown. We designed the gardens with the residents in mind, offering a calm and colourful space for people to relax and enjoy. Through our Resident Engagement Officer we also offer weekly gardening and craft activities for the residents to get involved with.
UKRI Transforming UK Food Systems for Health and Environment (Social Enterprise Food Systems)
Researchers at Middlesex University (lead), the University of Surrey (co-lead), Glasgow Caledonian University and Shared Assets are researching how social enterprises can bring innovations in healthy and sustainable food.
Community Gardens and Allotments
Growing your own food gives access to fresh, wholesome produce, free from pesticides and additives contributing to a healthier diet, fostering a deeper connection to the food you eat.
Partnership Projects
Wild Skills Wild Places (WSWS) - Wildlife Trust
Wild Skills Wild Spaces is a pioneering and award-winning project that boosts people’s mental and physical wellbeing by reconnecting them with nature.
Working With Fruit - Tir Coed
Working with Fruit course at our community garden and orchards. Learning about soft fruit, propagating berries and currants.
NPTC Horticultural Training
A practically based course aimed at individuals who want to improve their horticultural skills that can be used to enhance their job opportunities.
Introduction to Horticulture - Tir Coed
20 week Sustainable Horticulture Course in our community garden.
Powys Machinery Rings
Cultivate and Bwyd Powys Food have developed a Machinery Ring to allow horticultural growers in North Powys to hire specialist equipment from a centralised location.
Using the lending platform, myTurn
Powys Machinery Ring sign up here
Past Projects
ENRaW
A new programme of weekly Wellbeing Sessions in Newtown will offer everyone the chance to enjoy and explore the natural world.
Wellbeing in Green Spaces is a community project offering wellbeing sessions based on growing food, nature conservation and art.
Controlled Environment Agriculture
Cultivate are piloting a number of different controlled environment agriculture vertical farming systems to grow hyper local nutritious crops to offer within the community.
Local, sustainably grown food is absolutely key in tackling important issues surrounding our food system, climate change and biodiversity.
Grow Cook Share
Grow Cook Share is FREE and open to all. Grow Cook Share will teach volunteers to prepare simple, tasty and vegetarian meals to enjoy and share with their family and the wider community.
Summer of Fun
Using the community garden and kitchen; a series of family friendly activities and workshops throughout the summer holidays to engage and support people in nature-based activities. Weekly workshops in growing, cooking & sharing food featuring colours of the Rainbow.
Community Apple Pressing 2023
3 Community Apple pressing days where local people can come with their apples and get them pressed into juice.
15 Mile Meal
A free meal and workshop where we learnt about eating locally sourced foods that can not only support our physical and mental health, but the health of the planet too! The session will be supported by Laura, a Nutritional Therapist, who shared information on how we can improve our gut health and mental health in a sustainable way.
Celebration of Ukrainian Food
Celebration of Ukrainian food through a community shared lunch is a wonderful way to bring people together. It's a chance to share delicious food, make new friends, and learn more about Ukrainian culture.
Food Surplus Project-Hubbub Community Fridge Network
A project focusing on redistributing food surplus from supermarkets and making that food available to all via food sharing ‘Pay as you feel’ at the Pendinas Cultivate site and the Community Fridge and Freezer situated in the Waste Not Shop.
This work now is Newtown Food Surplus an independent organisation.
Food for Life Get Togethers
Connecting people of all ages and backgrounds through good food. Reaching diverse and disadvantaged communities supporting them to get involved in growing, cooking and sharing activities.
