Welcome

Croeso!

MeddwlCoed – ThinkingTrees in English (we know it doesn’t translate perfectly!) – is a co-operative group running a smallholding in Llandybie in West Wales. In 2018 we bought fifty acres of rough pasture and neglected woodland, and set about producing food on this wet, heavy, marginal land.

Our intent is to become largely self-sufficient – we believe in moving away from fossil fuels and towards a more ecologically-friendly way of life, embracing the principles of permaculture.

We’re still learning what the land is, what we can give it and when we can take, and how to live alongside the plants and animals that are already here. Our ponies have opened up paths in the woodland and kept down the soft rush in the pastures, and we’ve planted hundreds of bushes, trees and vegetables. Our ducks and chickens control the slug population and feed our compost heaps, with the added bonus of delicious eggs.

It’s been a hard road, or rather a slippery, muddy, slog across land where no roads have been laid, but it’s an incredible privilege and joy to walk up the hill every day and see the sky open out over fields and trees that we can, ludicrously, call ‘ours’.