growing beds in Llanelli

Foothold Cymru is a charity with growing beds, garden paths and volunteering sessions at the Lord Arthur Rank Centre on Trostre Road. Everyone is welcome to come and see what is growing.

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what we run

Hands in the soil, side by side, together

We look after growing beds, compost and water, and we run sessions where people work the garden together. Ring us to ask what is on this week.

Hands picking ripe strawberries from a raised timber bed in the community garden

growing beds

Raised beds and plots tended through the seasons.

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Strawberry plants growing in a raised bed, close crop

harvesting

Picking and harvesting what the beds have produced.

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Raised timber growing beds and bark-chip paths in the garden

volunteering

Group sessions in the garden for anyone who wants to join in.

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Water butts and hedging at the edge of the growing plot

composting

Composting and watering that keep the beds going.

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A volunteer crouched at a raised bed, working the garden

garden access

Paths laid out so people can get around the growing areas.

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Reviews

trusted by the people who come here

Rated 5 out of 5 from 3 Google reviews.

“A place safe, careful and peaceful, helping people with heart.”

Gwen K.Google review

FAQs

frequently asked question about

We have growing beds that are picked and harvested through the year. What is ready changes with the season, so ask us what is on today.

No. People come with all kinds of experience and pick things up alongside others in the beds.

Good to know

Short reads from the beds

Notes from the garden, written between jobs.

A volunteer picking strawberries in the raised beds at the Llanelli garden

Knowing when to pick

How we judge that something is ready to harvest, and why leaving it one more day is sometimes the right call.

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The raised beds, bark-chip paths and water butts of the growing space

What goes on the compost heap

A look at how we handle compost and water across the growing beds through the year.

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Fruit ready to pick in the community growing beds

Your first session in the garden

What to wear, where the paths go and how a volunteering session tends to run.

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