Tiny Forest Caerphilly 2021

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Several hundred local school children, parents and community groups helped us to plant more than 600 trees in Morgan Jones Park using the Miyawaki Method. The Tiny Forest was the first community led Tiny Forest to be planted in Wales and signed off by Earth Watch, thanks to a grant fromWCVA. It is now 2-3 metres high, with a beautiful classroom, log seating, a bug hotel and a bee mound. The method produces tree growth up to 10 times faster than usual tree planting and the area becomes 20 times more bio-diverse, removing carbon and preventing flooding.

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Diversity Nature Gardens 2022

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Children have created and continue to develop a "Diversity Nature Gardens to increase biodiversity in their school and to celebrate diversity of culture, nationality and race. Pupils between two and fourteen at a Welsh medium campus have taken part in the scheme, which was facilitated by Climate Action Caerphilly with the help of Keep Wales Tidy and funded by the Welsh Government.  The gardens were created on a site used by Ysgol Gymraeg Caerffili, Ysgol Gyfun Cwm Rhymni and Parc y Felin Flying Start Centre. Love Caerphilly Church, which holds its service at the school, helped to create the garden. Members of Morgan Jones Community Allotments and Caerphilly Baha'i Community also helped with planting. The Caretaker of Parc y Felin Flying Starts Centre, who is from Barbados, had the honour of planting the John Ystumllyn Rose - a rose named after the first documented black gardener in Wales. Also known as Jac Du, he was brought to Wales by slave traders in the 1700s. He became a respected craftsman and horticulturalist, marrying a welsh maid Margaret Grufydd, the pair still remaining a symbol of unity.  

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