They say farmers and gardeners don’t retire; they just go to seed…
Well that is true in the nicest possible way for 88-year-old Gwynfor Pugh, a resident of 18 months at Carmarthenshire Council’s Y Bwythyn care home.
Gwynfor has put his years of experience of dairy and arable farming experience in Carmarthen to great advantage and into practice helping to look after new vegetable plots on raised beds at the care home gardens.
He has helped sow the seeds and nurture the plants with other residents and it has been a wonderfully therapeutic tonic for them all.
Admitting he has little to do with flowers, Gwynfor has been cultivating beetroot, leeks and other salad crops in the raised beds that has gone to augment the kitchen supplies that caters for the home’s 32 residents.
Executive Board Member for Social Care and Health Cllr Jane Tremlett said the old image of residents sitting around TVs in homes all day long has been dispelled in Carmarthenshire.
Manager at Y Bwythyn, Heike Clarke, said: “Residents had an input into redesigning the patio area. They now have raised flower beds and vegetable plots they can help tend and garner themselves.
“It helps make Y Bwythyn very much a home from home for them.”
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