Sgwrs Dyffryn Peris conversation

A SPACE FOR THINGS THAT EMERGE

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ideas

Ideas from conversations that seem to have resonance so far…

  • Helping to recover from COVID-19 effects (and building resilience for the future, reducing reliance on tourism) by working out ways of keeping more money circulating locally - ideas include

    • Taking this opportunity to stop and think what we want to continue, and what we want to change post COVID eg continue the various community support systems/groups that have been set up

    • Could we try to have less tourists, but staying longer, and getting to know the language, culture, place more deeply (rather than just adventure tourism)? eg Tourism that is more linked to the community, and getting to know the language and culture - like working on a farm, or places where people can share stories or tell visitors about history. Maybe ‘local’ tourism, encouraging people to take breaks locally

    • Rethinking the approach to ‘events’ [sporting/outdoor events in Llanberis], so there are not so many, and more benefit (and less disbenefits) locally

    • Learning from the past about the different ways people have lived here… ‘anticipatory history’ which highlights the process of change rather than the past - or present - as a ‘fixed thing’…

    • Selling/curing farm produce locally including ‘boxed lamb/mutton’ and pork/bacon and veg … and fish (these already happening) and goat curry (two huge flocks on the valley causing havoc at the moment)… organic! *SEE BELOW

    • Create some kind of trading system for people who use wood that has blown down - making planks or furniture or art out of it

    • A directory of artists/crafts people working with slate, linked to the quarry

    • Community directory of services

    • “Locavore” directory of where to buy local food *SEE BELOW

    • Some kind of ‘local exchange trading system’, not just money

  • Doing our own transport and parking plan - in parallel with the National Park’s one. Use this as a ‘model’ of how we can help set the agenda, rather than waiting for consultants/the council

  • A car-free day a month (eg with parking at Glynllifon)… see how it works … then maybe extend it, depending on how it goes?

  • A ‘welcome’ for new arrivals (eg in Nant Peris, but could be any part of the valley) - introducing the history, language, culture. For people moving here. And for people staying in holiday homes? Could this be physical and/or face to face? linked to…

  • Informal conversational Welsh especially for new arrivals/those wanting to begin learning [this idea has been taken forward by Ann Bierd in Llanberis]

  • A guide book with climbs with Welsh names

  • Tourism that is more linked to the community, and getting to know the language and culture - like working on a farm, or places where people can share stories or tell visitors about history

  • Talking with farmers/others about land and what it is for… what do we want with it? could people living locally work with farmers to help manage things like fences, sheep etc?

  • A community orchard in Nant Peris? Indigenous varieties like the Snowdon Pear, Bardsey Apple… perhaps this could be a ‘distributed orchard’ with a tree in every garden (including or particularly holiday home gardens). Each tree twinned with a poem Cymraeg about orchards/apple trees?

  • Restoring some of the old hazel groves (so we don’t need to buy almonds from California)

  • A project on a piece of land where the community just observes what happens there

  • Could we help each other learn how to grow veg in our gardens? Would they even grow here?

  • Could we have somewhere where we could share ideas about what to do with land that we don’t know what to do with? How to know what’s best? Maybe we could share results about different approaches to working with land?

actions

The Nant Peris Book Club has created a ‘Locavores Directory’ to help people source and eat local food (click on the image to see it larger):

Nant Peris Locavores Directory

 

Cynulliad Cymunedol ar yr Hinsawdd Dyffryn Peris Community Climate Assemly

In 2021, year after this project started, a new organisation, GwyrddNi set up a Community Climate Assembly in Dyffryn Peris! I have been delighted to support them in developing their process, and running the Climate Assembly in 2022. I am multi-tasking facilitating and being a participant and you can see here how it is all going.

Our Action Plan can be seen here (English)

Cynllun Gweithredu Hinsawdd Cymunedol Dyffryn Peris (Cymraeg)