Urban-Vertical CIC

Today is National Eat Your Vegetables Day!!
We have been busy growing microgreens with pupils from Ysgol Y Deri and today was harvest day!
Pupils tucked in to Radish, Pink Kale, Broccoli and Red Cabbage noting how tasty their crops were, and how they were planning on incorporating them into their meals at home.
Microgreens are packed full of nutrition and grow extremely quickly and easily, perfect for the classroom or as a home activity.
If you would like to learn all about microgreens, their health benefits and how to grow them in your school or community group, please get in touch!

A wonderful piece about the valuable partnership we’ve created with Riverside Markets. Come and say hello when you’re next at Rhiwbina, Roath of Riverside Market!

Growing Together: Fruitful New Partnership Helping People Back Into Work — Cardiff Farmers Markets A fruitful partnership between Cardiff Farmers Markets and Urban-Vertical CIC has increased the availability of organic fruit and veg at our markets, whilst providing new skills, training and employment opportunities at the same time.

It’s almost Vale Food Trail Time! We can’t wait! Check out the awesome program of events and activities! What a great line-up!!
See you there!

On the 26th and 27th May, join Food Vale in Old Hall Gardens in Cowbridge where a programme of fun activities for all the family will provide opportunities to learn about food which is good for people, place and planet at The Cowbridge Food & Drink Festival.

Featuring Llanblethian Orchards, Urban-Vertical CIC, Awesome.Wales - Zero Waste Store & more.

Ar y 26ain a'r 27ain o Fai, ymunwch â Bwyd y Fro yng Ngerddi Hen Neuadd yn y Bont-faen lle bydd rhaglen o weithgareddau hwyliog i'r teulu cyfan yn darparu cyfleoedd i ddysgu am fwyd sy'n dda i bobl, lle a phlaned yng Ngŵyl Bwyd a Diod y Bont-faen.

https://www.valefoodtrail.com/vftatcowbridgefoodanddrinkfestival

We are very proud to be part of The Vale Food Trail 2024. Check out the programme of events and activities! Vale Food Trail

We can’t wait, we have thoroughly enjoyed sharing our workshops at the gallery and meeting so many interesting people!

We would love all our supporters to vote for Pedal Power Cardiff, they do such amazing and important work with everyone in our community- please also share. Thank you 🙏

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It’s Riverside Sunday! Come and find us at the market today to fill up on a nutritious rainbow of organic fruit and veg waiting to be on your plate! Our U-V team are there to help you so come and say hello!

It’s Waste Not Wednesday!! Come along to our food surplus and sourced market & cafe today from 1-3pm to fill up on supplies and to help combat food waste! We have a great selection of Faith in Nature products too. Reduced prices so you can have luxuries for less- but when it’s gone, it’s gone!
The Reach Centre, Avondale Road. Grangetown 🙌🌱

Whoop! It’s almost time….

A Space to Grow, Lle i Dyfu Foccacia, Photo Credit: Urban-Vertical The Arts for Health and Wellbeing Programme at Cardiff & Vale Health Charity present a new exhibition with artworks created from social prescribing projec…

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Today we celebrated the conclusion of our Urban Winter Walking project by bringing together all our collaborators at Penarth Library Maker Space for a sneak preview of our psychogeographical explorations of three popular walks in Penarth. The final dioramas will be exhibited from 22.03.24 The Hearth Gallery as part of our 2023-24 Space to Grow project with Arts for Health and Wellbeing

Over the course of 3 walks we engaged with over 25 walkers & explorers who all contributed towards our amazing outcomes.
Thank you to Ben from Think Differently, and Simon & Chloe from Maker Space Penarth
Thanks to Arts Council Wales for funding this valuable arts and health programme of activities.

These were the ingredients ready to be delivered to our lovely group of ladies from Women Connect First who joined us online this evening for our Friday Digital Dinner cook along session. Can you guess what delightful dish we created?
We are working in partnership with Arts for Health and Wellbeing with funding from Arts Council Wales and you can see more of the great work we’ve been involved in next month when our programme will be exhibited The Hearth Gallery at Llandough Hospital. We can’t wait!

How wonderful is this? We have been helping Ysgol Y Deri Special School set up an indoor vertical farm to help provide nutritious food to the local community and to provide valuable work experience for the pupils. They have done the most amazing job, and to celebrate their first harvest they donated all their microgreens to Grangetown Kitchen Garden to add to our weekly selection of food to support our community. Thank you Ysgol Y Deri Special School, you have truly made a lot of people happy today- and made their meals delicious and nutritious!! 🥰

Our Digital Dinners online cooking course kicked off this evening with ladies from Women Connect First
Everyone was given the same bag of ingredients, which included some of our market surplus foods, and we cooked together online. We were asked to recreate the recipes the group liked, but in a healthier way- so while we were cooking we discussed the food swaps we incorporated to make the dish more nutritious.
Our Digital Dinners course is run in partnership with Arts for Health and Wellbeing with funding from Arts Council Wales.

We deliver both leisure and accredited cooking and nutrition courses, and we have mobile cooking stations. So, if you are looking for an activity for your community group or private party, please drop us a message!

A fitting finale to the Songwriting for Wellbeing workshops today as part of the Arts Council of Wales funded project in collaboration with the Arts for Health & Wellbeing team.
Nobody believed we could write a song in 4 weeks, but we did and today we performed it in the garden at The Reach Centre in Grangetown, for passers by to hear.
We didn’t expect it to end this way- so we were all bursting with joy of our group achievement! 🙌
A few of our participants said they loved getting lost in making music because it was so peaceful - and we totally agree. If you hear 'Breakthrough' by The Cannateers on your radio soon, it was us 🙂
Huge thanks to everyone who took part. You are superstars 🌟

you are amazing! Fran from The Bay branch in Cardiff (our neighbours) heard about our market and has kindly donated food from their customer donations to our market this week. It has helped boost what we have been able to offer our community in our weekly market at
If you came to the market today and are enjoying the food, please remember the kindness of Morrisons and their customers who helped out!
We also want to thank the team at for being such a happy and helpful bunch of people. We love coming to collect our weekly supplies!
If you are a producer who can help our market with any surplus food you can’t sell, please get in touch to have a conversation. 💕

We had another amazing Power of the Pen workshop this morning at Barry Library with We learned how words can help us find understanding and compassion towards ourselves in difficult situations so we can move on and heal. Thanks to everyone who came and for encouraging one another to share their stories. 💕🙏

We can’t wait to be back at Railway Gardens to share info on all our new and FREE courses and activities with everyone. We are also having a cooking demo- so you can see how we are using FareShare Cymru surplus food and the veg we have been growing at Grangetown Kitchen Garden. Come and say hello, try some tasters and sign up to a cooking, creative or well-being course. You can also register to become a volunteer with us! See you there! 🌱

LINEUP ANNOUNCEMENT! >> Do you want to take action in your community? There's just three days to go until Climate and Community Connect at Railway Gardens and the line up of organisations you can meet and get involved with is INCREDIBLE - take a look 👇

♻️ Benthyg Cymru, the Library of Things
🌱 Urban-Vertical CIC
🚲 Sustrans Cymru
💡 The Bottega Project/ School for Change
🌼 Global Gardens
🚲 Pedal Power Cardiff
💧 LIFE (Lessons in Future Environments)
🍀 Gwyrddio Penarth Greening including Penarth Growing Community & Plastic Free Penarth
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Climate Cymru
💚 Cardiff Greenpeace
🍞 The Wyndham Street Pantry
🍎 Orchard Cardiff
💚 Cardiff Friends of the Earth
🛠️ GoodShed
🥕 The Railway Gardeners
🦕 Soaring Supersaurus
🐿️ ... and us, Green Squirrel!

Climate and Community Connect is taking place from 5:30pm on Monday 3rd July at Railway Gardens - pop down, grab some tasty plant based food from Things on Toast, and get involved! Everyone is welcome and you can register your free place here: https://buff.ly/42Tm6I0

P.S. We're cohosting this event with Carbon Copy - do give them a follow for a regular dose of inspiring community climate action!

We are very excited to be delivering 'The Power of the Pen' workshop tomorrow with Duke Al. The workshops are for anyone wishing to develop their creative writing and spoken word skills, led by the wonderful Duke Al.
We have a couple of spaces available - so it's not too late to sign up. The course runs for 4 weeks, on Tuesday morning 10-12pm at Barry Maker Space in the library. Refreshments are included and the course is FREE! What are you waiting for??

Please drop us a message or visit Eventbrite to book.
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-power-of-the-pen-tickets-656134424727

Urban-Vertical CIC in partnership with Cardiff & Vale Health Charity are pleased to present...The Power of the Pen. This FREE course runs for four weeks and is designed for parents of children with type 1 diabetes (T1D). They start every Tuesday from 10-12pm from 27th June - 18th July in the Makerspace at Barry Library. Workshops are led by Duke Al, a published poet, spoken word artist, rapper, and creative practitioner. Writing rhymes is Duke Al’s therapy. Workshops will be an opportunity to connect with other parents with shared experiences of T1D, and to discover the hidden poet in us all. Workshops are fun and informal, and snacks and refreshments are all included. Please drop us a message or head to Eventbrite to book your free place at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-power-of-the-pen-tickets-656133923227
Grangetown Kitchen Garden
Diabetes UK Barry, Vale of Glamorgan

The Power of the Pen The power of the pen, the power of self-expression, the power of sharing our stories.

Our Songwriting for Well-being kicked off this morning with Mike Fulthorpe, and we embraced the sunshine and beautiful garden
Workshops run for the next three weeks, they are free, great fun and breakfast is included!
Contact us to reserve your place, no musical or previous experience needed- just a desire to write your own song 🙌🏼

Friday 10-12pm at The Reach Center (outside) CF11 7DT

It’s happening!

We can’t wait to share our art-work inspired by microgreens, tomorrow at Penarth Maker Space. What a fun project and great results all round.
See you there ( there’s also a cake sale!)

A six week series of workshops recently explored the connections between growing superfood microgreens, and art & design. The final artwork & a display of growing Urban-Vertical CIC microgreens will be presented at Penarth Library on 9th and 10th June.

Find out more & explore our events at:
www.valefoodtrail.com/events/

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Yn ddiweddar, archwiliodd cyfres 6 wythnos o weithdai y cysylltiadau rhwng tyfu bwydydd daionus microwyrdd a chelf a dylunio, trwy dechnegau creadigol a ysbrydolwyd gan weadau, lliw a blas botanegol.

Bydd y gwaith celf terfynol, gwybodaeth ac arddangosfa o ficrowyrddion sy'n tyfu yn cael eu cyflwyno yn Llyfrgell Penarth.

https://www.valefoodtrail.com/events/

Any old or not worn shoes? Here’s what you can do with them…

Do you have any trainers or flat shoes (no heels/wedges) that you no longer wear? If you do, can we have them please? We only ask that they're in a good condition with no holes or tears. If you can help please message Ellen on 07791 467630 to arrange delivery. Details of other items we currently need can be found here... http://www.huggard.org.uk/Donations-Wish-List/

Everything starts with an idea. Then, when the idea is shared amazing things happen.

We are having another volunteer session tomorrow from 10-4pm for anyone who wants to come along and get stuck in to help make something amazing happen for our community.

Please message for more info!

Next week we are starting a series of songwriting workshops with Mike Fulthorpe (Music Therapist MA) in the gardens at Grangetown Kitchen Garden as part of our collaboration with the Arts for Health and Wellbeing Team at Cardiff & Vale Health Charity.
It's FREE and open to 18-25 year olds and everything is included, even snacks!.
To book follow the links and QR code to Eventbrite. Please share!🤩

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/songwriting-for-wellbeing-tickets-648008399567

Hi everyone, guess what? We are starting our free cooking course tomorrow at The Reach centre, Avondale Road Cardiff CF11 7DT🙂 We have a couple of spaces left for our Get Cooking 8 week course, so, if you fancy a morning learning new kitchen skills and recipes, with a meal to share or take home, please contact [email protected]
The course is completely free and all ingredients and kitchen equipment is provided.

We’re loving our series of Penarth Maker Space workshops that combine growing your own and creativity… fancy joining us? Check out the link…
We also have lots of other workshops currently being launched on our website and Eventbright, so keep checking in to see what you can turn your hand to!
See you soon 🙌🏻🌱

Stop Motion Animation / Animeiddiad Stop Motion Learn how to grow Microgreens and help create a Stop Motion Animation that shows how they are grown

Our partnership project with UHB Arts and Health Charity begins this week, and we have a couple of places left on our Belly Dancing for Wellbeing course. Workshops are FREE and will be loads of fun!
Drop us a message or email [email protected] to book your place.