Câr-Y-Môr

Last week, François headed across to Blue Earth Summit, connecting with incredible leaders and innovators in sustainability and community-driven impact. Here are a few highlights: 🌱 Insightful discussions with Alex Beasley and Nina Hajikhanian from Patagonia about bridging the gap between community benefit societies and potential investors. Their dedication to supporting sustainable initiatives is truly motivating! 🔍 Conversations with Jacques Villemot from Rewilding Britain about upcoming grant opportunities and Sally Beken from Innovate UK about potential funding avenues that could empower our work. 📚 Connecting with Bianca Peel, who develops learning materials for The Ocean Race, sparked great discussions around education and outreach—a key focus area for us at Câr-y-Môr. 🔄 A major takeaway was the emphasis on using the Future Generations model as a filter for all business decisions—an approach that aligns perfectly with our commitment to community and sustainability. Thanks to the Blue Earth team for hosting another great event. If you were there (or not) and would like to chat further about ocean and community regeneration, sustainable food sources and the potential for seaweed to revolutionise farming - reach out and let’s chat. #RegenerativeFarming #OceanConservation #CommunityImpact #BlueEarthSummit

Car-Y-Môr has been featured on BBC Radio 4's The Food Programme! As Wales' first regenerative ocean farm, we're proud to share our journey toward sustainable, community-driven seafood production. This segment dives into our passion for nurturing the Pembrokeshire coast through seaweed and shellfish farming, supporting local ecosystems, and building a resilient, sustainable food source for future generations. In the episode, you’ll hear about the vital role our farm plays in promoting sustainability, biodiversity, and contributing to the vibrant Welsh coastal economy. You can listen to the episode here: https://lnkd.in/gR5_WbuV ...and join us on our mission to create a sustainable blue economy! @bbc4radio @bbcfoodprog

ANNOUNCEMENT 📢 The Pembrokeshire Beach Food Company has joined the Câr-Y-Môr family! As well as fresh Welsh-grown shellfish and seafood, you can now purchase award-winning dried seaweeds, seasonings and sauces, seaweed butters and pestos, and even classic Welsh laverbread, from our website! Beach Food's founder Jonathan Williams, a pioneer investor and early supporter of Câr-Y-Môr's journey, said: "Câr-Y-Môr shares the same commitment to championing Welsh delicacies through sustainable food production that benefits the people and communities of Pembrokeshire. I’m very pleased to see The Pembrokeshire Beach Food Company moving on to an exciting new chapter."   Visit carymor.wales for a celebratory 10% off your next order using code 'BF10' until 31st July.  Stockists can contact shelley@carymor.wales to access special launch rates.

Thank you to all that tuned in and watched our episode on Countryfile on Sunday evening, we’re very grateful for those who sent supportive comments. Owen, Managing Director here at CYM took some time to get down his thoughts following the episode. "Thanks to the Countryfile team for covering our and Cariad’s work Just wish to clarify we are so grateful to Cwmpass for advising Câr-y-Môr to be a CBS allowing all to join for £1 and be equal owners. Due to being a CBS for 4 years: - We have a fabulous growing 450 membership - many of which volunteer and have invested. We have raised £2million providing 14 jobs and 3 regenerative ocean farms and started building a Sied Y Môr. Our aim is to develop the seaweed Biostimulant Market to hopefully help reduce the Biosythentic fertiliser use and help regenerate our farm land - trying to farm land and sea as one ecosystem. We appreciate we are innovative and fragile and need all the help and support we can get from the farming sector and Gov and NGOs if we are going to help start this new sector and hopefully help future generations of coastal communities especially fishermen and gatherers and all this with generations of knowledge regarding our incredible seas. We hope CBS’s will be an alternative way of doing business bringing benefit to all society and our wonderful planet."

We are excited to announce our partnership with the Wales Festival of Seaweed to be held in St Davids, Pembrokeshire between 16th and 19th May. The 4 day event will bring together seaweed experts, businesses, community groups and artists to explore the huge economic, social and sustainable potential of seaweed for coastal communitities and beyond. To book tickets please visit the link below. 👇

Exciting news - We're #hiring a new Farm Assistant Manager in St Davids, Pembrokeshire. Apply today or share this post with your network.

To the incredible women of Câr-y-Môr: thank you for your dedication, your courage, and your inspiring leadership. The waves we make today will ripple through generations, thanks to you. Let's all take a moment to honour and thank the women in our lives and our communities. Together, we can create a more sustainable, inclusive, and regenerative future. #internationalwomensday

Do you think #CymruCan act today for a better tomorrow? We do. Watch the new video by The Office of theFuture Generations Commissioner for Wales, calling for the Well-being of Future Generations Act to go further. https://lnkd.in/eaXCZ4Xy

From July to December we have the seasonal privilege of being able to offer the sweetest Welsh cockles of all from the Grade A beds of the Dee Estuary. This is only possible due to the skills of Welsh Cockle gatherers like Gorse. Dealing with someone like Gorse is rare. Hugely skilled and knowledgeable in his profession, he is able to handle the grueling physicality of the work in all weathers. Gathering this healthy and sustainable food, he is ensuring we don't lose this iconic Welsh coastal tradition.  With around 90% of Welsh seafood now being exported, inevitably we have lost all our Welsh Fish markets and transport networks. Resultantly our Welsh fishermen and gatherers, and their seafood, are less and less known about in their communities.   However we are seeing a genuine, growing interest for people to celebrate this coveted Welsh Seafood here at home. This small but growing interest is helping to reconnect the fishermen and gatherers with their local communities. Chefs like Tomos Parry, Kim Songsoo and their team who run Mountain, BRAT, KILN and Smoking Goat in London are a pleasure to work with. Their passion for sourcing the best quality, sustainable Welsh seafood aligns exactly with what CYM is trying to achieve. This common ground is why the relationship works so well.  Alongside partners like these, we aim to increase understanding of the unbelievable range of quality shellfish our Welsh seas can provide. So much of it has been forgotten about, here in Wales, but it’s here in abundance right on our doorstep. We must support and embrace its seasonality and the amazing potential benefits. Otherwise we risk losing it and the extraordinary knowledge and traditions of the fisherman and gatherers in our coastal communities.  We have the privilege of offering Class A Fresh Welsh cockles, thanks to the growing CYM community. We’re so grateful to work with a growing number of fishermen, farmers, gatherers all with such a wealth of experience. These individuals are key to the community we are building, CYM just wouldn’t exist without them. Together we wish to provide the best quality Welsh Seafood from small scale, sustainable, brilliant individuals. All for the good of our coastal community.  Thanks/Diolch to you all from this far West corner of Wales, that we’re lucky enough to call home.