07/09/2026
Well that was a pretty special Saturday! 🌱🔥 We took Cegin Hedyn out to Glasbren at Lords Park Farm for their Harvest Celebration and somehow managed to feed around 100 people, all cooked outside over fire using wood harvested from the land. There was something really lovely about cooking some of the vegetables too, because I’d actually helped plant some of them at Glasbren months ago. So I planted them, someone else did all the hard work of actually keeping them alive 😂, they were harvested, handed back to me, and then we cooked them over the fire and fed them to everyone. That felt pretty special and kind of summed up why I love doing this stuff.
Massive thank you to everyone who came and ate, everyone at Glasbren for having us, and especially everyone who volunteered and helped us actually pull it off. It was also really lovely seeing lots of familiar Cegin faces there. ❤️ Our next big event is the Welsh Real Food and Farming Conference in November, so more on that soon. Wales Real Food and Farming Conference
And a little bit of news from me too… this is actually going to be one of the last Facebook posts I personally write for Cegin Hedyn. I’ve been writing the newsletters, doing the social media and generally telling the Cegin story for the last few years, and as part of me gradually handing things over, it feels like the right time to hand this bit over too. We’ll hopefully be introducing you to Cegin’s new storyteller very soon. It feels a bit strange, but thank you for reading all my ramblings 😂, commenting, sharing and most importantly actually turning up and being part of it all. I’m not disappearing, but it’s time for someone else to start telling the Cegin Hedyn story. Thanks for being on this wonderful, slightly bonkers journey with me. Deri Reed ### 🌱
