New edible cup introduced to tackle waste from take away coffee

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Below: The edible cups, and right, owners Rob and Anwen

By Cllrs Gary Hopkins

and Chris Davies, of the Knowle Community Party

HAVING taken over the old bowling green in Redcatch Park five years ago, the Redcatch Community Garden have done a remarkable job especially given the trouble with Covid.

A survey by the Friends of the Park estimated annual attendance at the garden at 200,000 and it is growing.

As well as being very enjoyable, the garden provides a range of educational services and helps so many people in need that it would take pages to tell the full story.

They have achieved all of this with local effort and crowdfunding to get them started. They have been successful with grant funding applications but depend a great deal on the income from their cafe in a van. Even this was equipped by them. Despite the cafe being busy and very popular, it only just pays for all the