Part of 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 2:02 pm on 15 November 2022.
I thank the Member for that information. I think what it illustrates is something that you will see in every part of Wales, that the interest in community food growing is wider than just allotments and that it has an enormously enthusiastic group of people there who are interested in finding ways in which not just individuals on their own allotments but, if I think of my own constituency, just bits of marginal land that otherwise were having no purposeful use to them have been taken over by community groups who now look after them, grow food on them, make them available to that local community. And what you see happening in Pembrokeshire I think you will find replicated in that way in every part of Wales. It's why we are committed to the development of a community food strategy, because that will allow us to think of ways in which we can harness that enormous community effort, and, by offering some wider support through public authorities, allow them to do even more in the future.