Community Orchard Forum Cymru / Fforwm Perllan Cymunedol Cymru
A warm welcome to our Orchard Forum Cymru to all community orchardeers. This forum is a chance to learn from others and to share your own experiences being involved in a community orchard. There will be a topic for each session which will be led by a member and then we will open the floor for questions and discussion. The topic for the first session will be Summer pruning with Joey Hughes from Merched y Berllan.
SF&G's Paul Jennings will be leading this session exploring how to incorporate permaculture design in community growing settings. Permaculture is an approach to land management and settlement design that adopts arrangements observed in flourishing natural ecosystems. It includes a set of design principles derived using whole-systems thinking that can be used effectively in a community-growing setting both in terms of physical design, and group governance and management.
Led by Lucie Taylor, SF&G's lead for CLAS Cymru; She is a chartered town planner of 23 years and has worked with Social Farms & Gardens in Wales since 2013. This session will discuss what might need planning permission and how to check if you don't need to apply. We will then move on to how to go about submitting a planning application.
There will be ample time at the end for Q and A's.