Living Soil: How to Bring Your Soil Back to Life

As part of the UK-wide Great Big Green Week 2025, and in conjunction with our local friends at EcoDewi, Câr-y-Môr was delighted to host a talk on 10 June:

Living Soil: How to Bring Your Soil Back to Life

This fascinating event dug deep on the essential role of soil as a living ecosystem, led by Soil Doctor Alberto San Andrés.

Alberto - who designs and coordinates courses, workshops and talks that promote living, regenerative, and economically sustainable agriculture – demonstrated how healthy soil leads to healthy plants, animals, and humans.

“We’ll see how nature regenerates soil through living microorganisms and organic matter, and how modern agriculture must adapt by working with - not against - these processes,” said Alberto ahead of the event.

“The talk is a call to reconnect with the living cycles of soil, to heal degraded lands, and to produce healthier food—because we are soil, and soil is us.”

Pembrokeshire gardeners, growers, farmers and all with an interest in sustainability and regenerative farming joined us for this fascinating evening.

What’s more, the event was hosted by our friends at the St Davids Old Farmhouse Brewery – meaning attendees were able to sample a pint of their signature Câr-y-Môr seaweed beer, Cwrw Kelp, whilst listening to all things ground-breaking; as well as picking up a heavily discounted bottle of our Câr-y-Môr seaweed biostimulant or crushed crab shells to take home.
The talk was tied into the Great Big Green Week (GBGW), organised locally by EcoDewi, running from the 7th-15th of June with lots of events, markets, open gardens and activities.

Great Big Green Week encourages people to make eco-swaps – changing the things they buy and the ways they live to more planet-friendly alternatives.
By swapping to Câr-y-Môr’s gardening products instead of synthetic fertilisers, gardeners can play their own part in supporting healthy seas and to enrich their soils; the seaweed biostimulant being known to improve soil structure, plant growth and defence.
Câr-y-Môr Director, Dom Burbridge, said: “The use of seaweed on land isn’t a new concept.
“Generations before us fished locally and spread seaweed on fields to nourish the land, and Câr-y-Môr is continuing those traditions — with a few modern updates — to leave the Welsh seas and soils healthier than we found them.”