Exploring Welsh heritage dimensions of food and growing

This event is led by Egin mentor Poppy Nicol, hosted in collaboration with Food Cardiff.

Join us to explore Welsh heritage dimensions of food and growing, with special guest speaker Adam Alexander. Author of The Seed Detective and The Accidental Seed Heroes, Adam will be talk about how seed saving and heritage varieties play a role in building resilience using examples from his travels and research.

There will then be space to discuss in breakout sessions how we can explore Welsh heritage dimensions of food and growing to build resilience.

🍲 Free vegan lunch, tea and cake will be provided.

⏰ 1:30 - 4pm, Saturday 22nd March

📌 Cathays Community Centre, Cardiff

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Arweinir y digwyddiad hwn gan fentor Egin, Poppy Nicol, a gynhelir mewn cydweithrediad â Bwyd Caerdydd.

Ymunwch â ni i archwilio dimensiynau treftadaeth Gymreig o fwyd a thyfu, gyda siaradwr gwadd arbennig Adam Alexander. Bydd awdur The Seed Detective a The Accidental Seed Heroes, Adam yn siarad am sut mae arbed hadau ac amrywiaethau treftadaeth yn chwarae rhan mewn adeiladu gwytnwch gan ddefnyddio enghreifftiau o’i deithiau a’i ymchwil.

Yna bydd lle i drafod mewn sesiynau grŵp sut y gallwn archwilio dimensiynau treftadaeth Gymreig bwyd a thyfu i adeiladu gwytnwch.

🍲 Darperir cinio fegan, te a chacen am ddim.

⏰ 1:30 - 4pm, dydd Sadwrn 22 Mawrth

📌 Canolfan Gymunedol Cathays, Caerdydd

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More about Adam Alexander:

Adam Alexander is a writer and consummate storyteller thanks to forty years as a successful and award-winning film and television producer. He lectures widely on his work discovering, conserving and sharing rare, endangered garden crops. He grows seed of heritage Syrian and Ukrainian vegetables for displaced people in the UK and beyond and maintains a library of over 500 vegetables that he has collected over 35 years, growing out more than 40 varieties every year to refresh his collection and share with fellow gardeners. He is a seed guardian for the Heritage Seed Library, part of Garden Organic in the UK and director of Our food 1200, an organisation supporting agro-ecological horticulture in Wales. His first book, The Seed Detective, which tells of the journeys of many of his favourite vegetables from wild parent to cultivated offspring as history on a plate was a BBC Food Programme Book of the Year in 2022 and his latest book The Accidental Seed Heroes is published in 2025. In it he explores the future for plant breeding, championing locally adapted varieties and that the ability to save and maintain seeds is a right for all.

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This event is part of Egin’s Mentor-Led Spring Series, designed to inspire and support communities across Wales in creating meaningful, sustainable change.

Led by experienced mentors, these events provide valuable insights, practical guidance, and opportunities to connect with others making a positive impact.

Egin is part of DTA Wales, empowering communities to take action. Find out more about Egin how we support community action by visiting our website or emailing us.

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Mae'r digwyddiad hwn yn rhan o Gyfres Wanwyn wedi'i Harwain gan Fentoriaid Egin, wedi'i chynllunio i ysbrydoli a chefnogi cymunedau ledled Cymru i greu newid ystyrlon a chynaliadwy.
Wedi'u harwain gan fentoriaid profiadol, mae'r digwyddiadau hyn yn cynnig mewnwelediadau gwerthfawr, arweiniad ymarferol, a chyfleoedd i gysylltu ag eraill sy'n gwneud gwahaniaeth cadarnhaol.
Mae Egin yn rhan o CYD Cymru, gan rymuso cymunedau i weithredu. Dysgwch fwy am Egin a sut rydym yn cefnogi gweithredu cymunedol drwy ymweld â’n gwefan neu anfon e-bost atom.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Cathays Community Centre, 36-38 Cathays Terrace, Cardiff, United Kingdom