We are advocating for strong action in response to the food security crisis: more growing of food for local and regional markets, long-term solutions to ever-increasing food poverty, and plans for food shocks. We're a Community Benefit Society working with regenerative growers, farmers, landowners and local authorities to secure 1200 acres of land across Bannau Brycheiniog, Powys and Monmouthshire for modern regenerative horticulture. This scale of change will create a foundation for a vibrant local food economy, with new opportunities for all our farmers and communities. We want to build farming that:
• Is small-scale, highly productive and commercially viable.
• Helps provide food security in South Wales.
• Gives the asset poor, particularly our young people, a chance to access land and start a regenerative farming enterprise.
• Promotes community through local trading and shared ownership of our landscape – a “foundational economy”.
• Is regenerative: purposefully building biodiversity, fixing carbon in the soil, and avoiding harmful chemicals and pollution.
• Creates short local supply chains that keep profits local and at a scale that opens new opportunities to all local farmers.
• Provides communities with opportunities for education, training and mental wellbeing support.
• Encourages healthy eating by making fresh, nutritious, locally grown fruit and veg available to everyone in our region.
• Reduces the impact of our food and drink consumption on carbon emissions and deforestation across the world. To find out more, please visit our website: https://ourfood1200.wales
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