Field Notes 60

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Van life, Welsh food, handmade places and farming futures

Four things worth watching this week. Housing, food, place, farming, and a few signs that better culture still grows from real ground.

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Housing

The van life generation

Van life is often sold as freedom. Sometimes it is. Sometimes it is what happens when ordinary places become impossible for ordinary people to live in.

This one is about Cornwall, but the feeling travels. Homes become assets, communities become scenery, and young people are left trying to build a life in the gaps.

Watch the film

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Welsh food culture

We forget this is right on our doorstep

Gareth Ward has built one of the most talked-about restaurants in the UK, tucked away in the Welsh countryside. Dark, intense, obsessive and completely its own thing.

We talk about food culture as if it is always happening somewhere else. London, Copenhagen, Paris. Sometimes the strange, brilliant, world-class thing is sitting quietly in Wales.

Watch A Knife in the Valley

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FarmCo Market

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Beef stocked. Veg in. Eggs ready.

A small market note before we carry on. Gower Meadow Beef is stocked up, Cae Tan veg is coming into peak season, and Koop & Kiln eggs are ready for the fridge.

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Place

Rockaway Park

Somewhere between Glastonbury, Bristol and Bath, there is a place where homes are handmade, space is abundant and art seems to be in charge.

Rockaway Park feels like the opposite of everything polished, branded and flattened. A bit Disneyland, a bit Scrapheap Challenge, a bit post-apocalyptic village fete.

Watch Rockaway Park

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Farming futures

Groundswell Festival

Farming, soil, animals, nature, food and the future all in the same field. Exactly the sort of world FarmCo wants to be useful to.

Not farming as a museum piece. Not food as supermarket branding. Just land, people, ideas, problems and possibilities all rubbing up against each other.

Watch Groundswell Festival

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FarmCo Market

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The weekly market closes Tuesday at midnight

Order direct from local farmers and food makers. Collect from the farm or from one of our FarmCo collection points.

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