Global Gardens is a community growing project based in Cardiff. Global Gardens works with the Trinity Centre, which provides support and outreach for refugees and asylum seekers in Cardiff and the surrounding environs. Through the shared activities of gardening, cooking and eating, the aim of the project is to bring together refugees, asylum seekers and the local community to work together and celebrate ecological and cultural diversity.
On their site at Flaxland Allotments, Global Gardens are cultivating an organic community kitchen garden, celebrating crops from around the world. The crops grown are used in monthly community suppers and community-shared meals around the city.
The vision was to create a growing space and associated activities that supports community-based sharing of food and cultures. The aim was to facilitate inter-cultural communication and understanding and support community integration, health and well-being.
The task was to clear out the site until the existing concrete foundations were clear and then to construct a small building made mostly out of recycled materials for Global Gardens and their activities. The building operates as a seed propagation space.
Reclaimed structural timber from refurbishment sites around Cardiff (plus a few extra materials such as nails, envelope materials, etc) was used to create a timber-frame building that was quite transparent, to aid the Global Gardens community in their aim to propagate seeds within their site.
Global Gardens Photo Montage of Project - https://www.globalgardensproject.co.uk/copy-of-global-gardens
