{"id":3637,"date":"2014-03-21T14:32:35","date_gmt":"2014-03-21T14:32:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cardiffian.jomec.co.uk\/?p=3637"},"modified":"2014-03-21T14:32:35","modified_gmt":"2014-03-21T14:32:35","slug":"digging-for-victory-cardiff-community-gardens-celebrating-the-big-dig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/2014\/03\/21\/digging-for-victory-cardiff-community-gardens-celebrating-the-big-dig\/","title":{"rendered":"Digging for victory: Cardiff community gardens celebrating the Big Dig"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_3640\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3640\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cardiffian.jomec.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Riversidegarden.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3640\" alt=\"Riversidegarden\" src=\"http:\/\/cardiffian.jomec.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Riversidegarden.jpg\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3640\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3640\" alt=\"Riversidegarden\" src=\"http:\/\/cardiffian.jomec.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Riversidegarden.jpg\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" \/><\/noscript><\/a> Sam Holt and volunteers at the Riverside Community Garden<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nCommunity gardens around Cardiff will be holding events for the first time tomorrow in aid of the Big Dig 2014.<br \/>\nThe Big Dig 2014 Cardiff has been organised by Federation of City Farms and Community Gardens as part of a project called The Big Dig, which encourages people to go down to their local community gardens and get growing.<br \/>\nBefore this year the event was primarily based in England.<br \/>\nEvents will be held at four community gardens in Cardiff including Mackintosh Community Garden, Riverside Community Garden, Canton Community Garden Chapter and FareShare Community Allotment in Llanrumney.<br \/>\nMackintosh Community Garden in Roath will be holding a volunteer workday from 12 noon-5pm followed by an Equinox Party from 5pm to 9pm with live entertainment and food and drink available.<br \/>\nRiverside Community Garden, awarded the best community growing project at the Keep Wales Tidy awards earlier this year, will see volunteers planting poppy seeds for this years&#8217; First World War Centenary.<br \/>\nVolunteers will also help build a strawberry fence using recycled materials. The garden will open from 10am-3pm.<br \/>\nSam Holt of Riverside Community Garden said: \u201cThe Big Dig event will help inspire people and build their confidence to grow their own food.<br \/>\n\u201cAt the moment the garden is only open during the week so the event will also give people the opportunity to come down on a weekend.<br \/>\n\u201cIf the weather is wet tomorrow we have a large shelter which can sit 20 to 30 people and two 11 meter deep polytunnels.\u201d<br \/>\nEmma Williams, SEW Development Worker at Federation of City Farms &amp; Community Gardens, said: \u201cCardiff is excited as it\u2019s the first time this event has taken place in Wales.<br \/>\n\u201cIt\u2019s a really good opportunity particularly as Cardiff is one of six sustainable food cities in the UK and the only one in Wales.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Community gardens around Cardiff will be holding events for the first time tomorrow in aid of the Big Dig 2014. 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