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Yesterday I sat around a table in Carmarthen with some incredible people talking about food, poverty, farming, education and community.

And I came away feeling pretty emotional about it.

I told the story of the moment that eventually led to Cegin Hedyn. After Covid, I bumped into a friend who apologised for not coming to The Warren anymore.

“I just can’t afford it anymore.”

That really hit me.

Because I never opened The Warren believing that good, local, organic food should only be available to people who can afford it.

So I started asking: how do we do this differently?

That question eventually became Cegin Hedyn.

The original idea was that I’d turn up and cook a curry. If nobody helped, I knew I could probably feed 50 people myself.

But there was never a day when nobody helped.

One person came. Then another. And eventually a tiny idea became this huge community of people cooking, growing, volunteering, eating and looking after each other.

Yesterday, Jen from Cegin y Bobl talked about getting children properly cooking and understanding where their food comes from.

Mary Sherwood talked powerfully about poverty, dignity and why telling someone to simply “eat better” ignores the reality of living on a low income.

And Owen from LocalMotion pointed out something I haven’t stopped thinking about:

Right there in the word agriculture is culture.

Food IS culture.

It’s our farms, children, high streets, community centres, allotments, what we grow, what we cook and who we sit beside to eat it.

And Carmarthen has SO MUCH of this already happening.

Which brings me back to reopening The Warren.

I don’t just want to reopen a restaurant.

Yes, I want bloody delicious food, brilliant local produce, great wine and the place buzzing again.

But I also want us to keep asking:

What can a restaurant give back to the place it belongs to?

I don’t know the full answer yet.

But Cegin Hedyn taught me that you don’t always need to know what the finished thing looks like.

Sometimes you just need to plant the seed and trust your community to help you grow it. 🌱

I bloody love this town.

And I’m incredibly excited about what we could build here together.

#carmarthen

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🔥FEAST FROM THE FLAMES @ceginhedyn @ethicalchef 🔥 #Harvest2026

There’s something about cooking over fire that feels perfectly suited to harvest time — smoke in the air, embers glowing, vegetables blistering and charring until their flavours are transformed.

For our Harvest Celebration, we were delighted to collaborate with Cegin Hedyn, a local social enterprise who run a Community pay-as-you-feel canteen and allotment. The team of @ethicalchef and @ceginhedyn volunteers brought their brilliant fire cooking to the heart of the celebration. Cooking over a fire cage, they turned our seasonal harvest into something truly special - including smoky, charred aubergine and beetroot, cooked right over the flames.

It was a beautiful meeting of people, produce and place: vegetables grown from the land, cooked over fire, and shared by over 100 people metres from where it was grown.

Collaborations like this between projects with similar aims and values bring our events so much more to life!

We hope you enjoyed your food!! Let us know in the comments below how it was…

Cegin Hedyn’s approach to cooking is rooted in seasonality, local produce and the alchemy of fire - making the most of what’s available and allowing the ingredients to shine.

A celebration of the harvest in every sense. 🔥

@tnlcommunityfund
📷 @a_great_alternative

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Had a brilliant conversation with Lisa Fern at the Fallow event about food, resilience, community, and what it actually takes to keep values-led food businesses going.

Between us, there are a lot of years of cooking, teaching, growing, adapting, making mistakes, starting again and trying to work out how food can stay both good and accessible.

We talked about the reality behind hospitality, rising costs, fragile food systems, supporting local growers, teaching children to cook, perennial vegetables, community kitchens and the role that trust plays in projects like Cegin Hedyn.

One thing kept coming back:

Food resilience is not just about growing more food.

It is about skills.
It is about relationships.
It is about local producers.
It is about communities knowing and supporting one another.
And sometimes it is about trying something before you know whether it is going to work.

That is very much where I am with The Warren right now too.

This next chapter is an experiment in whether a place built around local, seasonal food can become something held more widely by the community around it.

A lot to figure out. But plenty worth fighting for.

Thanks Lisa for sharing the stage, the stories and the waffle.

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Copy Seasneg ~ The closing date to join the Citizens Assembly has been extended by 10 days. We the think its important to give as many people from across Camarthen a chance to participate in this work, so please do help us share this opportunity.

> Mae’r dyddiad cau i ymuno â’r Cynulliad Dinasyddion wedi’i ymestyn gan 10 diwrnod. Credwn ei bod yn bwysig rhoi cyfle i gynifer o bobl o bob rhan o’r gymdeithas gymryd rhan yn y gwaith hwn; felly helpwch ni i rannu’r cyfle hwn, os gwelwch yn dda. Diolch yn fawr!

Outreach is always a battle but it’s important that this is an inclusive group led by lived experience. So let’s get this right!

>Mae estyn allan bob amser yn frwydr, ond mae’n bwysig bod hwn yn grŵp cynhwysol sy’n cael ei arwain gan brofiad bywyd. Felly, gadewch i ni wneud hyn yn iawn!

Thanks so much to all who can and have shared this! Diolch i bawb naeth rhannu’r cyfle yma!

@peoplespeakup #citizensassembly #oldesttowninwales #trefhynnafcymru @ctcaerfyrddin.carmarthentc @carmarthenshire_county_council

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>Mae’r dyddiad cau i ymuno â’r Cynulliad Dinasyddion wedi’i ymestyn gan 10 diwrnod. Credwn ei bod yn bwysig rhoi cyfle i gynifer o bobl o bob rhan o’r gymdeithas gymryd rhan yn y gwaith hwn; felly helpwch ni i rannu’r cyfle hwn, os gwelwch yn dda. Diolch yn fawr!

The closing date to join the Citizens Assembly has been extended by 10 days. We the think its important to give as many people from across Camarthen a chance to participate in this work, so please do help us share this opportunity.

Outreach is always a battle but it’s important that this is an inclusive group led by lived experience. So let’s get this right!

>Mae estyn allan bob amser yn frwydr, ond mae’n bwysig bod hwn yn grŵp cynhwysol sy’n cael ei arwain gan brofiad bywyd. Felly, gadewch i ni wneud hyn yn iawn!

Thanks so much to all who can and have shared this! Diolch i bawb naeth rhannu’r cyfle yma!

@peoplespeakup #citizensassembly #oldesttowninwales #trefhynnafcymru @ctcaerfyrddin.carmarthentc @carmarthenshire_county_council

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Waw, am noson micro-ariannu gyntaf wych! Diolch enfawr i bawb a gyflwynodd eu syniadau heno. Cerddoriaeth gwych fyw gan @coron_moron hefyd !! 🎸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Wow , what an amazing first
micro-finance night! Huge thanks to everyone who pitched tonight. Amazing live music from @coron_moron too! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🎸

It was close, but the people spoke and £3k was shared out to 3 local projects which demonstrate social value to our town.

Firstly, congratulations to Criw Dem Celf who will be using their share to support community music nights, buying instruments and supporting access to music!

Secondly a huge well done to recent graduate Owen who will be setting up a social prescribing biking project - the first of its kind in Carmarthen!

Lastly a massive congratulations to our friends at Cegin Hedyn who will providing 100 free meals and supporting their incredible community work- exploring food justice and wellbeing in Carmarthen!

Well done to the LocalMotion Microfinancing Woking Group CAWL for organising!

Roedd hi’n gystadleuaeth agos, ond y gynulleidfa benderfynodd, a chafodd cyfanswm o £3,000 ei rannu rhwng tri prosiect lleol sy’n dangos gwerth cymdeithasol i’n tref.

Yn gyntaf, llongyfarchiadau i Crew Dem Celf; byddant yn defnyddio eu cyfran i gefnogi nosweithiau cerddoriaeth gymunedol, prynu offerynnau a hyrwyddo mynediad at gerddoriaeth!

Yn ail, llongyfarchiadau mawr i Owen, sydd newydd raddio; bydd yn sefydlu prosiect beicio rhagnodi cymdeithasol – y cyntaf o’i fath yng Nghaerfyrddin!

Yn olaf, llongyfarchiadau enfawr i’n ffrindiau yn Cegin Hedyn; byddant yn darparu 100 o brydau bwyd am ddim ac yn cefnogi eu gwaith cymunedol anhygoel – gan archwilio cyfiawnder bwyd a lles yng Nghaerfyrddin!

Da iawn i Grŵp Gweithio Micro-ariannu LocalMotion! Diolch enfawr hefyd I @coron_moron

@criwdem_celf @ceginhedyn @uwtsd.outdoor.adventure.ed @cwrwbar @cwrwstudios @ethicalchef @jenny_or_bloc @shahdzorob @nettledirt @hywelinc @peoplespeakup @earthybond @harrietbaggley @abirdmadethis

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Cofiwch archebu eich tocynnau ar gyfer CAWL Dydd Iau yma! Pleidleisiwch am eich hoff gynigion...

Dolen yn y bio!

Remember to book your tickets to CAWL this Thursday! Vote on your favorite pitches..

Link in bio!

@peoplespeakup
@localmotion_lincoln
@localmotion_torbay
@localmotionenfield
@esmeefairbairn
@paulhamlynfoundation
@lankellychase

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Ymunwch â ni ar gyfer digwyddiad CAWL cyntaf!

Join us for our first CAWL event!

Homemade cawl cooked by @ceginhedyn, live music by local band Coron Moron, exciting new ideas and a chance to make real lasting change for your community in
Carmarthen!

Local groups will pitch projects with social value, you’ll hear the ideas, and vote on where the money goes!

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Cawl ffres wedi'i coginio gan @ceginhedyn, cerddoriaeth fyw gan band lleol Coron Moron,
syniadau newydd cyffrous a chyfle i wneud newid parhaol i’ch cymuned
yng Nghaerfyrddin!

Bydd grwpiau lleol yn cyflwyno prosiectau gyda gwerth cymdeithasol gwirioneddol. Cewch glywed y syniadau, a phleidleisio ar ble fydd yr arian yn mynd!

Link to get tickets in our bio!

Film Credit @jtcpanton

@peoplespeakup
@localmotion_lincoln
@localmotion_torbay
@localmotionenfield
@esmeefairbairn
@paulhamlynfoundation
@lankellychase

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🌱 LOCAL ACTION. GLOBAL IMPACT.

🌍 GWEITHREDU’N LLEOL. EFFAITH FYD-EANG.

Cyn i’r term “dim datgoedwigo” ddod yn rhan o’r brif ffrwd, roedd ysgolion a chymunedau yng Nghymru eisoes yn arwain y ffordd.

Mae’r erthygl hon yn @ethical_consumer_magazine yn dangos sut y gall dewisiadau bob dydd, gan gynnwys prydau ysgol, helpu i warchod coedwigoedd trofannol a chymunedau Brodorol. 🌿

Before “deforestation-free” became mainstream language, schools and communities in Wales were already leading the way.

This feature in Issue 220 (May/June 2026) @ethical_consumer_magazine highlights how everyday choices, including school meals, can help protect tropical forests and Indigenous communities. 🌍

✏️ Diolch to Simon Birch for highlighting this important story.

#DeforestationFree #Cymru #kidscancook #cooking #menu

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Ffilm newydd yn cynnwys Chris Packham, gwyddonwyr hinsawdd a natur blaenllaw, cyn-gadfridog a Jennifer Saunders - pob un yn eithaf agored ynglŷn â ble mae pethau'n mynd a beth y gellir ei wneud yn ei gylch.

Ffilm ‘People’s Emergency Briefing’ a thrafodaeth
📍 Neuadd San Pedr, Caerfyrddin
🗓 22/5/26
🎟 Am ddim (angen archebu tocyn- lleucu@ynnisirgar.org)
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A new film featuring Chris Packham, leading climate and nature scientists, a former general and Jennifer Saunders - all being pretty frank about where things are heading and what can be done about it.

‘People’s Emergency Briefing’ film and discussion
📍 St Peter’s Hall, Carmarthen
🗓 22/5/26
🎟 Free (booking a ticket required - lleucu@ynnisirgar.org)

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Belated Calan Haf ~ Beltane blessings all, as we turn to the light half of the year. I’ve spent much of these past few days simply revelling in the beauty of the land, the call of the cuckoo and the return of swallows, and then, last night it was time to head over to see the great team at @glasbren to share some music, songs and story magic for their May festival with wonderful @simviolin . Instead of Beltane Balefires, the blessing fell to a team of fire dancers. What a night! Diolch 🙏 Here comes the sun - and may it illuminate the dark and war-ravaged corners of our world. #beltaneblessings #storytelling #ceremony #fire #summeriscoming

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Episode one of ‘Magical Anarchy’ delves into some magical ways that ordinary people are coming together to garden, cook and convene as a collective during hard times. I hope you enjoy this very gentle introduction and feel inspired to go out and learn more.

I am so thankful for the book ‘Braiding Sweetgrass’ by @robinwallkimmerer , which has inspired me to become so interested in reciprocal nature and ultimately inspired me to make this little video essay - i recommend reading it! #queerartist #guerillagardening #communitykitchens #anarchy

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