Current members

Barnaby Badger Brown is a musician, songwriter, teacher and music producer. Born in Pembrokeshire, South Wales, he lived for many years in London where he taught in schools and played in several bands. Since moving to Mid Wales, he has been teaching music to adults, and running group sessions for learning traditional folk music. He was the member of a Ceilidh band called the Badgers Set, which often played in support of social justice and environmental campaigns such as The Landworkers Alliance and Extinction Rebellion events. He is also a founding member of the Machynlleth folk session, which brings together musicians from all parts of the community. He enjoys supporting people in the community with their musical endeavors.

A local food activist working on improving the resilience of food in our region. Ewan moved to Machynlleth in 2023 from Edinburgh and joined Tir Cyffredin in 2024. Since then they have been researching sustainable food systems, while working locally in events, forestry, labouring, landscape gardening and now as a food skills teacher and food activist. As an experienced forager and lay-herbalist Ewan aspires to bring people into closer connection with the Nature around and within us as a means of realising personal and collective resilience. They have a commitment to not just food, but Just Systems, pouring a lifelong practice of healing, accountability and responsibility into their work, community and personal life. 

Grug is a writer, facilitator and editor. The Welsh language, and maintaining it as a living language in rural areas is a cause close to her heart. She is from Gwynedd originally before moving to mid-Wales, where she works as a Community Officer for the Urdd in Maldwyn, providing opportunities for thousands of children and young people in Bro Ddyfi and beyond, through eisteddfodau, trips, summer holiday activities, foreign trips, and residential courses. Through her work she offers a positive experience of the Welsh language to pupils in the county's Welsh-medium and English-medium schools, ensuring that everyone has fun in Welsh, regardless of their background.

She volunteers as a secretary to the Powys Bro Ddyfi eisteddfod working committee, sings with the Bro Ddyfi Choir and Lodesi Dyfi, and is part of the Talwrn y Gwylliaid Cochion team, thus contributing to the cultural life of the Welsh language in the area. Through her voluntary work with the publishing house Cyhoeddiadau’r Stamp she fosters and publishes the work of new writers throughout Wales. Stamp is recognized as a catalyst for change within the wider publishing sector. She is also part of the team that publishes the poetry magazine Ffosfforws, and she runs 'Cerddi Canol Pnawn' open mic events across Gwynedd.

JoJo has lived at Tir Cyffredin since March 2021. In 2018 she left her roots near Manchester and embarked on a 12 month adventure which lead her to now being in Machynlleth. Jojo volunteered on Workaway projects, learning more about sustainability, helping set up eco campsites, working more outdoors on tree planting projects and helping out on an organic cider farm in Mid Wales. JoJo's career has mainly been dedicated to working with people with Autism and currently works within the Social Care sector as a support worker. Jo is passionate about British Sign Language and joins in with the BSL coffee mornings in Mach.  In her spare time you can find her  practicing guitar and photography and admiring the local scenery .  Jojo set up the local samba drumming group that play "Rhythms of Resistance"  in Jan 2020 and enjoys drumming with friends who also want to support demos for change and justice.

Kate moved to Tir Cyffredin in 2023. She's grateful to members and investors past and present for the extraordinary work that brought the Tir Cyffredin cooperative into being, and to the community for coming together to help realise such a radical vision. Kate is a linguist who has worked for many years in the field of indigenous rights. In her spare time she likes to swim in the Dulas, learn Welsh, make music, and soak up the view from the top of the Wylfa.

Simon is a published poet and writer, who joined Tir Cyffredin in 2023. He’s currently completing a poetry pamphlet about working life as a chef and beginning a creative non-fiction book about the healing potential of regenerative land projects. He is a Qigong tutor, with experience of facilitating and holding sacred space. Simon is also a founder member, working with local health and wellbeing cooperative Eginiad Cymru. Loves cooking communal meals - even more so now he no longer works as a chef!