Garddio
Community, education, wellbeing, and creativity
The Queer Nature Walks with Garddio have been a wonderful exploration of queer ecology, science focused walks learning about the species that live around us that also give people opportunity to create and build community.
Garddio is a project under lone worlds creating wellbeing workshops for the LGBTQ+ community. After being a participant in the indoor workshops I joined in June 2025 to run a Queer Moss Walk with funding from WWF Cymru Community Fund. It was a huge success and I’ve since been part of running a total of four queer nature walks alongside Howel Hubbard and Mab Jones:
Queer Moss Walk (Moss ecology and biology, with communing with moss time) in But Park
Queer Woodland Walk (Tree ID and Forest Bathing) in Forest Farm Country Park
Queer Fungi Walk (Fungi Id, ecology and biology, word collecting for communal poem) in Dinas Woods
Queer Cemetery walk (Fungi and Folklore) in Cathays Cemetery
These walks regularly sell out within a few hours of tickets going live, and feedback has been exceptionally positive.
Contingent on funding we are planning to run more garddio queer nature walks . With an aim to have one a month throughout the year!
Collaborators: Garddio
Funded By: National Lottery Community Fund, WWF Cymru Community Fund
My role: Workshop planning and co-ordination, funding support, workshop facilitator
Outputs: Four science and art walks
When: Summer and Autumn 2025
“[this walk] Gave me a sense of community and made me feel like I was in a supportive group that recognised and embraced neurodiversities whilst also feeling safe as a trans woman, which given the issues with the EHRC guidance being explicitly transphobic has been a welcome relief. ”
— Fungi Walk Participant
“[I felt] Inspired, welcomed, invigorated to get more involved in nature”
Cemetery Walk Participant
“Can we please do this every month?”
— Cemetery Walk Participant