A scheme to create an “edible corridor” in Porthmadog and to make features out of waste material has been awarded a £50,000 grant.

Bwyd Bendigedig Port/Incredible Edible Porthmadog was awarded the cash from landfill disposal tax (LDT) community grants for their projects.

Lizzie Wynn, from Off The Wall Wales, designed the project during her research period at the Centre for Alternative Technology for her MSc Sustainability and Adaptation in the Built Environment, where she now teaches courses and lectures, as an external contributor.

The plan is to create an earth-bermed greenhouse, a shed/shelter from materials that typically end up in landfill, a composting facility and raised beds.

This will provide the local community with increased food-growing capacity, an all-year growing space, shelter/storage and free ‘food security’ learning opportunities in our changing climate.

Amanda Davies of Byw’n Iach said: “We are grateful for the work of the local group and its volunteers in attracting this grant and to LDT for investing in their vision.

“The location of the project at our Glaslyn site helps us to provide additional wellbeing activities for our exercise referral clients whilst at the same time creating an attractive and productive space for all of our customers on arrival at the centre.

“We hope that the innovative design can be used as an exemplar for other communities in terms of the reuse of plastics.”

An event was held on Saturday, 1 June called ‘Tyfwch - Have a Grow’ where the group were planting, picnicking and demonstrating building techniques with Ecobricks.

They hold volunteer gardening sessions on Mondays, 5pm to 7pm or Thursdays, 11am to 1pm. They are fundraising for plants and items not included in the grant and donations can be made at https://localgiving.org/charity/edible

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