Energy to Grow Your Community and Your Garden

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Energy to Grow Your Community and Your Garden. Worried about climate change and how its affecting nature? There are things we can do that have a real and positive impact for us and the environment. And that’s a win-win! This video is sponsored by WeGlimpse.
Community energy puts the power back into communities’ hands. Local residents own the means of power production and can sell energy back into the national grid.
When you invest in community energy you get a return on your investment (usually paid annually) and often you get a vote in how or where the surplus is spent. This could be spent on more solar panels, it could be to reduce our power bills and it could also be spent in our local community on projects like gardens, education and creating community centres.
When many of us invest small amounts into a local scheme, we can do something amazing. We can take control back from big energy companies.
There are community energy projects right across the UK. Search online for Community Energy Project and find one near you.
To get involved in Energy Garden in London or Awel Aman Tawe in Wales
Individuals can -
Invest
Join a garden group
Attend an event
Buy our energy.
Corporates can -
Buy our energy
Have a corporate away day
Sponsor a youth training programme or school workshop.
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We are a fifty-something couple who live on a smallholding in Carmarthenshire, Wales. We are going green and creating a gentler, cleaner and more healthy life for our family.
Having had a highly successful smallholding in Monmouthshire, we hope to recreate the abundance at our new home. There will be a large organic kitchen garden with no dig gardening raised beds and young food forest in which to grown our fruit and vegetables.
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@jplant1414 5 ай бұрын

Thanks so much, Liz. So refreshing to see these projects and the positive vision behind them in this age of seemingly limitless bad news.

@MyFantasyHomestead 5 ай бұрын

I love the idea of having community involved! Individually we are but a single drop, but together we are ocean! 💚

@LizZorab 5 ай бұрын

Exactly! I can't wait to share some more of these ideas, they make my soul sing with joy.

@Jasmine-cn4wc 5 ай бұрын

What an inspiring video! I appreciate the emphasis on not just the immediate benefits but also the long-term positive impact on the environment and community. It's great to see how individuals and communities can come together to create vibrant and loving spaces, even in the midst of urban development.

@LizZorab 5 ай бұрын

Absolutely! And is was inspiring to feel the positive energy of the staff and volunteers too.

@GardenMyselfHappy 5 ай бұрын

A great video Liz on some great initiatives. Lovely to see city ones as well as rural.

@LizZorab 5 ай бұрын

Thanks! It was super to meet the folks involved in Energy Garden in London, they are doing some amazing stuff!

@GardenMyselfHappy 5 ай бұрын

@@LizZorab I grew up in London. Sadly I remember the opposite direction of green spaces being ripped apart and either removed or put to grass. Even Victorion glass house and gardens. Crying shame. So seeing regeneration is lovely and vital.

@jeanholdstock3695 5 ай бұрын

It is amazing what can be achieved when people (community) come together. Thank you for sharing this with us all xx

@LizZorab 5 ай бұрын

Absolutely! It's brought me so much joy to learn about these projects.

@ErnieCG 5 ай бұрын

Good video,we have community gardens in edinburgh,like one place behind a church where they grow food and get together in the church hall and eat the produce and volunteers can take away free vegetables away.

@alicequayle4625 5 ай бұрын

Great stuff.

@rachalnocchi5600 5 ай бұрын

So much future potential! Just wonderful how just a little energy can give give so much back to communites!❤

@LizZorab 5 ай бұрын

When communities club together they can purchase more solar panels and site them in other places, like across business rooftops. That way there is a lot of energy to sell back to the grid!

@artifex_amandalastname2297 5 ай бұрын

I'm amazed at the surplus they are creating for their community!

@tallulah8070 5 ай бұрын

That was really interesting and inspiring. Thank you!

@LizZorab 5 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

@jenniferspring8741 5 ай бұрын

Hi, I am new to the channel. I have always wanted to ask about growing flowers for both pollinators and cut flowers. How do the pollinators thrive if their flowers get cut? If they lay eggs on the leaves, how is their lifecycle completed? I have the same question about plowing under cover crops. Thank you!!

@LizZorab 5 ай бұрын

You are unlikely to cut every single flower at once and more will keep growing, therefore a cut flower garden will still support pollinators and other insects.