Mud and Thunder

We’re launching a new zine called Bom Hadau (Seed Bomb), sprinkling inspiring and positive stories across Newport. Get your hands on the first issue on 13th March, which features: @rspbnewportwetlands @artings_and_inklings Newport Mohila @lucillustration @meurigpumpkins Join us for the official launch plus music from @parcsmusic - it’s gonna be a good one. See you @theplacenewport 5.30pm 13th March.

@acemonmouth Make Do and Mend festival - sharing, singing, smoothies, food, workshops and the launch of Monmouth Youth Charter, a sustainability charter created by school pupils in Monmouth. #monmouth #community

We’re co-creating a magazine in #newport #casnewydd Come along to the launch meetings to help shape the stories and direction the magazine will take. It’s about Newport telling and sharing positive local stories about people and planet. There’s loads of great people and projects out there and we want to bring budding #writers #illustrators #photographers together to make this happen as a collective. First meet up next week 17th Sept @maindeelibrary 6-8pm See you there 💚

Newport has the solutions! We are back working with the fab @circular_newport network. This time to create a magazine with Newport residents that inspires green living and community sharing 🙌🏻. More info about the launch events coming soon. #newport #greenliving #circulareconomy♻️ #cocreate #communitymagazine

Horner Wood is a fragment of temperate rainforest in Devon (Holnicote Estate). It’s likely that 20% of the UK was once covered in temperate rainforest. The growth pattern of the gnarly, twisty oaks is transfixing! Loads more info about these sacred places in Guy Shrubsole’s The Lost Rainforests of Britain. #holnicoteestate #lostrainforestsofbritain #temperaterainforests

“It’s place you can share, meet people, talk to each other…. we all need somebody to lean on” The simple act of sharing at the @communitysharingshop creates a powerful space for people to come together. #solidarity

Our latest news and recent projects. 1. We worked with the @chineseinwales_ (CIWA) over the course of a year to capture oral history stories about the experiences of first and second generation Chinese migrants in Wales. There have been Chinese communities in Wales since at least the early 1900s, but rarely do their lives and stories get spotlighted. For CIWA this project was about preserving the rich heritage of Chinese people in Wales and showcasing the diversity within their community. 17 stories were captured and the exhibition is still on display at St Fagans National Museum of History @museumwales 2. Newport has a whole network of individuals and organisations creating the conditions for a future with less waste - more sharing, more repairing, and more caring about the lifecycle of everyday items. We created two films for @circular_newport - one to showcase the great organisations in Newport weaving a collective narrative; the other to capture learning for the Circular Newport Network - understanding how the network can strengthen their offer so that green and circular enterprises can keep flourishing in this city. 3. In Monmouthshire there is a real drive to support regenerative agriculture. As part of that work, @acemonmouth the Monmouthshire Food Partnership and other partners funded a one year mentoring programme for three farms, delivered by @bentd76 Regen Ben. We got to tell the story of the farms’ regen journeys. Shout out to the wonderful @squarefarmshop @llanoverestate @lowerhousefarmwales Full newsletter available via link in bio 👆 #filmmakingwales #regenagriculture #circulareconomy♻️ #oralhistory

Looking close up 🔍 - shapes, patterns, beauty. 🌸🍀🌻

In praise of saltmarshes 🌱🌊 - teeming with life, storers of carbon and just awesome to look at. It’s #worldsaltmarshday here’s an aerial view of #Newportwetlands at Goldcliff. What amazing habitats to have right on Newport’s doorstep 💚 #saltmarsh #newport #goldcliff #naturephotography

“We keep learning that what we’re doing is terrible, so we’re always looking for the better way.” Rob Whittall, Regenerative Farmer -@squarefarmshop Beautiful to see Square Farm opening its fields to share their journey and knowledge. They’ve transitioned from a farm that used pesticides and fertilisers to one that has been named as one of the top 5 Soil Farmers of the Year 2025. They are also hosting the Marches Real Food Convergence in October. Big credit to the amazing @acemonmouth for supporting the event! #regenerativefarming #regen #monmouthfood

Another world where mud meets water #newport #mudflats #wales #southwales #gwentlevels #intertidalzone

A tree star #stories #myth-making