feeding wales
croeso i cymru bwydo!
With inflation continuing to eat into disposable incomes, 'food poverty' is becoming a very real, existential, threat to the health and wellbeing of every family in Wales.
Feeding Wales is designed to provide the information you need to grow your own food. Plus, through our Facebook Group we hope to bring together keen amateur gardeners with people who have an outside space, however small, but are unable to cultivate it themselves.
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find your way around
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Any outside space can be used to grow free food, even in an urban environment or on a patio.
Discover easy ways to propogate, plant and pick a range of edibles. . . with an annual growing diary.
Whether you intend growing vegetables or not, set aside part of your garden for our native pollinators!
what to grow?
Click on any of the images below for a more comprehensive list of produce in that food group. . . plus a guide to the nutritional values of each, including their GI (Glycaemic Index) values, especially important for diabetic or pre-diabetic consumers.
[ about nutrition guides... ]For each fruit or vegetable, this guide will show a Glycaemic Index rating, which indicates whether it raises blood glucose levels quickly, moderately or slowly.
Because starches are partially broken down into simple sugars during cooking (think of how much sweeter carrots become when cooked), the GI rating increases. To make the guide less complex, the GI value shown is that relating to the most common way that food is consumed (for example; lettuce leaves show the raw GI, whilst potatoes display the cooked GI rating.)
To make it even clearer, the Index value is prefixed with an 'R', or a 'C'.
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Root veg & tubers including; Potatoes, parsnips, swede & carrots.
Leafy vegetables including; Cabbage, sprouts & spinach.
Other Brassicas including; Cauliflower and broccoli.
Alliums including; Leeks, onions, shallots & scallions (spring onions).
Peas, beans & legumes. including; Runner beans, peas & broad beans.
Fruit vegetables including; Tomatoes, squash, courgettes & bell peppers.
Salad leaves & ingredients including; Lettuce, radishes, celery & kale.
Herbs & flavourings including; Herbs, ginger, garlic & chillis.
Edible seeds including; Pumpkin seeds & sunflower seeds.
. . .more free food!
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Keeping chickens. . .
Enjoy fresh eggs every day by adopting ex-battery hens from an animal rescue!
Foraging free food. . .
Finding free food by foraging the fields, hedgerows and shoreline.
Fish & fishing. . .
Fish, fishing and edible seafood including traditional Welsh 'Laver'.
extra features
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Kids v Vegetables. . .
Really sneaky ways to make children forget that they 'hate' vegetables! ;o)
Rewilding. . .
How best to attract insect pollinators to your growing space.
Saving energy. . .
Some simple cooking tips and tricks to save energy. . . and money!
SHORTCUT LINKS
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GROWING SPACES
CULTIVATING TIPS
FREE FOOD GUIDE
BEE KIND, TO BEES!
MEET & GREET
Join our Facebook Group for more useful tips, and connect with other keen amateur gardeners, or people with a growing space to share!
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