Tyddyn Y Coed Farm
Small-scale sylva farm in the Black Mountains and Bannau Brycheiniog
Yn Tyfi – Growing on the farm
We’re an experimental, fledgling farm and tree nursery with a slow-grown approach. Our first trees will be ready for the 2026 winter planting season, with farm produce to follow in 2027.
The Tree Nursery
Our nursery focuses on forest garden and agroforestry trees and shrubs, with a special interest in fodder trees that support livestock health and provide tree hay.
We want to grow what’s needed for the future, so we’re always open to ideas and requests. By building a community around the nursery, we aim to be ready for the needs of three to five years ahead—so please get in touch if you have suggestions.
The Farm
The farm is evolving organically as we learn what works best in each corner of the land.
Our first step has been understanding the soils, and over time, we’re creating a landscape built on resilience and diversity rather than uniformity.
Planned areas include:
- A forest garden
- Productive wood pasture
- Coppice
- Hay meadow
- Orchard
- Open pasture
We’ll be documenting our journey step by step on our (coming soon) blog.
Our Story
We moved to Tyddyn in late 2024, exchanging a two up, two down ‘normal’ house, for a teeny tiny home on a 3ha holding.
Between us, we’ve covered about 5 different careers, non of which were farming, but a lot of which involved understanding the land, and also how to make stuff work. We’ve a lot to learn, a lot of brilliant ‘proper’ (and not so proper) farmers we can learn from, and an ability to embrace chaos.
This is our attempt to find an alternative way of living, working and making change. Hopefully it’s worth sharing.
If nothing else, it should be entertaining…
Frequently Asked Questions
Is it a permaculture farm?
Our small-scale farm combines traditional and innovative techniques to demonstrate sustainability in farming. We combine principles of agro-ecology, permaculture and regenerative approaches with a health dose of tech and science to test the viability of small-scale farming.
We absolutely believe that it is possible to work, make food and enjoy a world with a nature rich, environment led mindset.
Is this just agroforestry?
Yes, but also no. Agroforestry as a term has come to mean any method of integrating trees into a farmed system, i.e. farming. Our focus is sustainable living, and in our current climate trees are fundamental to that aim. Our priorities in order of thinking are normally: landscape, water, soil, trees, then everything else…
Why have you launched a website when you haven’t produced anything yet?
Good question! Mostly because we want to learn from others as well as share our own story, and this is a useful landing page for that.
Can I visit the farm?
We’re high up in the Welsh mountains with terrible infrastructure, so we’re not really set up for visitors at the moment. This is something we’d love to work towards, but parking will always be limited so this will be on invitation / private request for the forseeable. We’ll try and share what we can online – so do send us requests for what you’d like to see.
Got questions?
Feel free to reach out.