Shortening the Swansea food supply chain
Date Published: 1st October 2026
In collaboration with Bwyd Abertawe, written by Rosie Evans, CSA Network Wales Development Worker.
We had a great day at Black Hills CSA, Swansea at the start of September and were blessed with sunshine and delicious food cooked up by Sunshine Kitchen with produce from Black Hills and Cae Tan. Black Hills was looking lush and productive, especially given the difficult season with unprecedented hot and dry weather. Aoife, Black Hills grower, described how using woodchip as a surface mulch, sourced from local tree surgeons, helped massively in locking in the soil moisture and protecting their field crops. We enjoyed a farm tour of their veg production, fruit and nut trees and their labyrinth and sensory garden. Thanks for hosting!
In attendance were 24 attendees from across Wales including 9 from 4 existing CSA’s, 3 people looking to set up a CSA, 4 organisers from Bwyd Abertawe & CSAN, 2 Plaid Cymru MSs – great to have the ear of local Senedd representatives, 6 people who are members of either a local CSA,or keen to find out more about CSA, of which some were growing veg non-commercially, and some had existing horticultural businesses including 1 non-CSA swede farmer growing at scale.
We have recently welcomed Mary Duckett to our CSA Network board (in attendance that day with her Bwyd Abertawe ‘hat’ on) who gave a talk on how they might support existing food producers in the Gower and Swansea area through their upcoming pilot project Bwyd i’r Rhanbarthand. We ran a sessionon the CSA model and benefits for the producer aimed at attendees interested in setting up a CSA.
If you’re in Wales and in the early stages of setting up a CSA, please do get in touch — Rosie is our community development worker in Wales and would love to hear from you: wales@communitysupportedagriculture.org.uk