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  • Home
  • About
  • Contact
  • What you can do
  • Green Maps
    • Morriston Green Map
    • Pontarddulais Green Map
    • Gower Green Map
    • St Thomas and Port Tennant Green Map
    • Penderry Green Map
    • Central Swansea Green Map
    • Green Spaces Green Map
    • Growing Spaces Green Map
  • Projects
    • Digital Streams >
      • Digital Streams Loughor
      • Digital Streams Tawe
      • Digital Streams Townhill
      • Digital Streams 4
    • Sustainability Trail
    • 2012 Awards >
      • 2010 Awards
    • Carbon Footprinting 2010
    • Trailblazers 2012
    • Trailblazers 2015
    • Bont Byw 2011
    • Eastside Project 2013
    • Penderry Project 2014
    • City Centre project 2015

Vetch Veg

The Vetch Veg Community Garden project began in 2011 as a site-specific, art project - part of the Cultural Olympiad. Located at the former Vetch field football ground, the aim was to promote and encourage community spirit through gardening and social activities.
The development of the project has been organic and community-guided, with local residents and groups working together to create an impressive and productive green space on what had been derelict land. The project has not only enabled positive social interaction but has also promoted environmental awareness - and encouraged cultural understanding. It has become a focal point for the community – a place for people of all ages and backgrounds to meet, talk and work together – sharing skills and knowledge, exchanging seeds and stories, and willing to lend a helping hand to neighbours.
The project, initially supported by the Taliesin and other partners, has now become an independent body which has secured a 7-year lease on the land and is working on ideas to become financially sustainable.
The judges said they were blown away by their site visit and were impressed by the passion and diversity of the plot holders and their willingness to share skills and help each other.

2012 Community Project Award winners