Together with Wrexham Glyndwr University Enhancing Entrepreneurship Team, we’re trialling a new venture with Tŷ Pawb, Wrexham’s community hub. They’ve kindly made some ‘barrows’ available to our project members. Find out more here. Erlas Walled Garden at Tŷ Pawb Yesterday… Read more »
Horticulture Wales in the News – December 2019
This month we’ve had the following press coverage: Horticulture Wales paints a festive picture with businesses in Flintshire and Wrexham More Christmas treats from Ty pawb Horticulture Wales project backing for small businesses who ‘support local’ this Christmas
Press release: Horticulture Wales paints a Festive Picture with Local Businesses
Wrexham Glyndŵr University’s Horticulture Wales project is backing small businesses who ‘support local’ this Christmas with a collection of festive window displays. The decorative windows will highlight shops which support communities and promote their local growers and producers. A variety… Read more »
Grower Pack: The Vale of Clwyd Denbigh Plum
Horticulture Wales, in conjunction with ADAS, produced a grower pack, available for all growers and producers, to give guidelines on all aspects of compliance in respect of Protected Designation of Origin (PDO) status. This pack is available as a download… Read more »
Would you like a free space at Tŷ Pawb until Christmas?
Together with Wrexham Glyndwr University Enhancing Entrepreneurship Team, we’re trialling a new venture and are offering you an opportunity to be a part of it. Tŷ Pawb, Wrexham’s community hub, has kindly made some ‘barrows’ available to our project and… Read more »
Case study: Seven Oaks Garden Centre, Ruthin
We recently visited Wales ‘Café Garden Centre of the Year’ – Seven Oaks Garden Centre run by Ian Forsyth in Ruthin. We talked about the garden centre business in Wales, growing in Wales and the work we’ve done with his… Read more »
Case study: The Woodland Skills Centre
Last week Rod Waterfield from the Woodland Skill Centre chatted with us about the work they do, what they’ve done with Horticulture Wales and the future of Welsh Horticulture. We hope you’re inspired by his positive outlook on the future… Read more »
Invite: Sustainable Scale Up conference in Wales
A great opportunity for our members… Tuesday 26th November 2019 St David’s Hotel, Cardiff Bay The Food and Drink Wales Industry Board invite you to the first Sustainable Scale Up conference in Wales for the food and drink sector. … Read more »
Join us: Wales National Heritage Orchard Cluster Event – POSTPONED
POSTPONED until 2020. More details soon… An opportunity to share Welsh National Orchard stories and expertise. Book here. Speakers include: Fay Francis – The value of attaining Welsh GI status and Andrew Collings – Ark of Taste. Tickets are free.… Read more »
Make your Halloween pumpkin a Welsh one!
Why do we carve pumpkins at Halloween? You may have assumed carving vegetables for Halloween started in the US. I did! But I was wrong… The carved pumpkin, or the ‘jack-o’-lantern’ is British in origin and dates back to the… Read more »
If your SALSA Audit has been postponed you will need to apply for an extension to your certificate. Please watch this video for further advice:
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