Page 2 - Eco-Schools Wales Newsletter, Spring 1 2023 - english
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A letter from our guest editor
What’s more important than food? One way to do this is through
Food is something that we all need to community-based food-growing
survive, but the way we produce food projects. This is when people in a
and waste food can have a big impact community come together to grow
on the environment. food in a shared space, like a garden
or farm. This can be done in a way
Like lots of people, I’ve recently that is good for the environment,
started growing my own vegetables using techniques like composting and
in the garden. It’s been a lot of fun crop rotation to keep the soil healthy.
learning about the process and
understanding how to go about it in At Keep Wales Tidy, we help
an environmentally friendly way. communities to do this through our
Growing food takes up a lot of Local Places for Nature programme.
land and resources, like water and Since 2020 we’ve helped create,
fertilizer. It can also lead to pollution restore, and enhance more than 900
and deforestation. But, when we green spaces, working hand in hand
grow food in a way that is good for with community groups, schools, and
the environment, it can be very other organisations across the whole
beneficial. country.
