Get Growing Garden Trail Saturday 6 & Sunday 7 June 2015

Bristol's secret fruit & veg growers open their garden gates and community plots for the 5th annual Get Growing Garden Trail Part of the build-up to BIG Green Week 2015 7 3 Bramble Farm Community Orchard 11 Horfield Organic Community Get Growing Community Smallholding On the large allotment site off Thingwall Park, Orchard From Redcatch Road, enter Stockwood Crescent Fishponds, Plot 180. Entrance is via allotment gates. Walk down lane beside 22 Kings Drive BS7 8JP and we are midpoint around the crescent. Walk through 12–5pm Sunday 1–5pm Saturday Garden Trail the privet hedges on to Northern Slopes. Transport: 47, 48, 49 buses to Chipping Sodbury/ www.community-orchard.org.uk Park and turn right. Signs will lead the way! Saturday 6 & Sunday 7 June 2015 Emersons Green. Bath/ cycle path (exit Alcove Rd). A pioneering, member-managed orchard, inspiring fruit Sat Nav postcode BS4 1AW The orchard is in a lovely spot alongside the 70 acres growing as a way to grow community, wellbeing, and local 11am–5pm Saturday & Sunday of green space of and the Frome Valley. sustainable food. activities: Home Orchard Plot – see Plot your own Trail trip using the map inside. You’ll We are a community group growing vegetables and raising Established in 2005, it is managed organically and has plans for our new back garden orchard project. Orchard also need a smartphone, SatNav or A–Z to find your animals for produce to feed our families high quality, high some old and rare local varieties of fruit trees, soft fruit and Roots Bristol exhibition. Learn the stories of heritage apples. way around the city. Use the symbols to plan lunch welfare, locally produced, fresh food. activities: Meet the a willow dome. activities: Hear about developing and Find out how a community group transformed this marginal stops or a day out with the kids, or read a bit more farm animals. Pet’s Corner. Seed sowing in newspaper running a Community Orchard, its produce and cider land into a beautiful and fruitful urban oasis. Homemade to just pick-out projects which interest you. pots. Plant and produce sales. Children’s activities. BBQ making. Refreshments and local produce. cakes, refreshments, produce and plants for sale. and refreshments. Cake sale. Members on hand to give urban smallholding advice. 8 The Golden Hill Incredible Edible Bristol 1 Blaise Community Garden Community Garden Access is available at all times to all Incredible Edible 4 Easton Community Garden Blaise Castle Walled Garden, Henbury Rd BS10 7QS Entrance through the allotment gates Bristol plots, but volunteers will be on site at the times Gordon Road, Easton/Whitehall. Access lane is at the bottom of Monk Rd BS7 8NE listed. Incredible Edible Bristol invite you to come and Find us next to Blaise House Museum, to the left of between Nos. 58 & 60. Nearest postcode BS5 7DR harvest anything that’s ready for picking! the front of the building (number 1 bus or parking 12–4pm Saturday next to Blaise Café) 11am–4pm Saturday & Sunday 07506 905 394 · [email protected] http://ediblebristol.org.uk/ 11am–4pm Saturday & Sunday www.eastoncommunitygarden.org.uk www.thegoldenhillcommunitygarden.com 12a Facebook: Easton Community Garden Castle Park blaisecommunitygarden.org.uk Come and see our beautiful and productive garden and Our kitchen garden is a haven of peace where we grow the gorgeous Bishopston Bale House – our new straw bale Alongside cycle path between park and river, 1790’s walled garden in Blaise Estate. Presently veg, fruit and flowers collectively. We are open every eco house. Our garden is packed packed with innovation – Castle Park BS1 5TA under restoration by volunteers, growing flowers, Thursday and gardeners share the harvest at the end wall built out of recycled tetra paks; the Tower of Power 2–5pm Saturday fruit, vegetables and building amenities. Toilet next to of the day. The site was designed on Permaculture solar pump providing recylced water to over 200 allotment People will be able to talk about Incredible Edible and Blaise Café. activities: Making a miniature ‘magic’ principles and has thrived since 2001. There is a cob-built plots and an edible forest. Wheelchair accessible including what’s going on and where, as well as how to get involved. garden, colourful bunting, sowing seeds. BBQ midday, rain shelter, compost loo, ponds and places to rest and toilet, disabled parking available on request. activities: refreshments, plants for sale. b Edible Fishponds gaze. activities: Tours of the garden showing ‘no-dig’ Cakes and plants for sale. Tours, chats, and pond 12 cultivation, comfrey beds, composting, water harvesting dipping. Plus a chance to get your hands dirty with some Outside the Co-op on Straits Parade BS16 2LE Bristol East Allotment Association and outdoor stove. Refreshments, plants, seedlings and volunteering. 10am–1pm Saturday bristoleastallotments.co.uk comfrey juice to buy. Sadly we are not fully accessible to There’ll be a chance to talk to all the people involved in the people with very limited mobility. 2a Bell Hill Allotments 9 GREENS Community Market project from the draft, to have a walk around both beds Garden (HHEAG) which are quite large, and a conversation about what it’s Garfield Rd, St George BS5 7LX 5 Elm Tree Farm Molesworth Allotments, Molesworth Drive like growing by the side of the road. 1–4pm Saturday & Sunday Park Road, Stapleton BS16 1AA (between house nos 79 & 81), Withywood BS13 9BJ 12c Edible Horfield Common A small allotments site comprising 39 plots. The site is very 11am–4pm Sunday 10.30am–3pm Saturday wildlife-conscious, has an area set aside as a wildlife area, Beds at the far end of the bowling green behind the We are a 12.5 acre site where we train adults with learning www.hheag.org.uk/?Community_Food_Growing plus a large pond along with many small ponds on plots. Ardagh Community building BS6 7YL difficulties in horticulture and animal care. We produce a There are a variety of crops grown by plot holders including GREENS grow fresh fruit and vegetables with the help of 1–4pm Sunday wide variety of fruit, veg and plants which we sell to the volunteers at two community allotment sites. The produce fruit trees and unusual vegetable varieties. An opportunity to hear about the project, what’s being public. activities: Come and join us for our Open Day – is used in nutrition and cooking courses, and is also sold grown and chat will those involved. 2b Hope Allotments we are having a BBQ and cakes, you can meet the animals to local people, at low cost, through our Food For All Kingsway, St George BS5 8NS (pigs, lambs, chickens, ponies) and there will be plenty of Co-operative. activities: Meet the growers and take a 12d Millennium Square games for the children. Demonstrations throughout the day Enter via lane opposite Kingsway precinct. tour of the garden & orchard (including the compost loo). Alongside @Bristol BS1 5LL and plants/produce for sale. Buy some plants or produce. Snacks and cream teas on 10am–1pm Saturday 10am–1pm Saturday sale, plus healthy food tasters made by our volunteers Hope Allotment site is made up of three small sites in 6 Feed Bristol using our produce. Find out about our plans for a Come and talk about the project in Millennium Square, the one area. Plot holders grow a large selection of crops. city centre Urban Growing Trail and how to get involved. 181 Frenchay Park Rd (on the corner with Stoke Lane) Roundhouse on our second site at Bourchier Gardens. 2c St Aidans Allotments Stapleton BS16 1HB Nicholas Lane, St George BS5 8TY 12–5pm Saturday 10 Hengrove & Whitchurch 9am–1pm Saturday & Sunday www.feedbristol.org.uk Community Orchard A large site worked by 99 members. Fantastic views over Feed Bristol is Avon Wildlife Trust’s 5 acre community Meet outside the Cartwheel Pub, Oatlands Avenue, the city plus areas dedicated to wildlife. The site was part project, growing organic food in a wildlife friendly way BS14 ORS of the St George in Bloom gold pennant-winning entry to support education, health and well-being and social 3–5pm Saturday & Sunday (walk & talk starts at 3pm) to Britain in Bloom 2014. Our on-site shop sells many enterprise. We support groups with different needs and www.futureperfectbristol.org/commissions gardening goods at low prices. running training sessions throughout the year. Top up your A Future Perfect public art commission. Artist David Thorpe garden from our wildflower nursery. activities: Explore 2d The Farm Allotments in consultation with local residents has designed an how nature helps us grow; sample delights from our ‘herbal Orchard to provide abundant fruit for the community and a Cousins Lane, St George BS5 8JY, off Air Balloon Rd and delicious’ café; sensational seasonal BBQ and live place of beauty. Join the Producer and Friends of Hengrove 9.30am–1pm Saturday music. FREE fun activities for all the family. and Whitchurch Community Orchard to hear more A large site with plots of all sizes and a great variety of about our plans for planting the Orchard in November, produce, grown by many methods including no dig, kids’ lunch stop and Sharing the Harvest – a series of workshops to KEY snack stop More information at: organic and traditional. This site is undergoing a revamp activities & snacks learn traditional skills such as basketry, jam making and so there are some plots which are not attended. livestock plants or toilet or horticulture. activities: Apple cake and juice provided. www.bristolfoodnetwork.org produce compost loo EASTER OVER COMPTON BRADLEY STOKE

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Free to Friends, CHANDAG http://bedminsterpatchwork.tumblr.com HARTCLIFFE www.tresa.org.uk University staff & students, & children under 16 ESTATE A group in Totterdown growing WHITCHURCHedible food in public places. 0117 331 4906 · www.bristol.ac.uk/botanic-garden www.facebook.com/bedminsterpatchwork QUEEN The Patchwork Community Gardening Group is a group We have a small Community Orchard at the bottom of The Botanic Garden offersCHAR LTOa wideN range of vocational of local residents who are working to tidy up neglected Park Street with fruit trees and bushes and a small raised and leisure courses aimed at all levels of experience. patches of land around Bedminster and Southville, with vegetable bed, with also a ‘bug hotel’ to encourage wildlife. In addition to our highly popular vegetable growing and the aim of making our neighbourhood more attractive Additionally we grow herbs in raised beds in Oxford Street. gardening courses, we are an approved centre for the DUNDRY Access through out the weekend or join us on Sunday for to residents and wildlife. In 2011 the group started a Royal Horticultural Society courses and qualifications. CHEWTON community orchard and herb garden. activities: our street party by the Orchard. Information on activities activities: Sunday only – guided tours of the garden KEYNSHAM Make a bee hotel. Cakes and refreshments on sale, 20 Sims Hill Shared Harvest and work parties on the Tresa website. Suggestions and 11am and 2.30pm. Refreshments. Plants for sale. 0 500 1000m new volunteers welcome. N or bring your own picnic to eat in the orchard. Stoke Lane, Frenchay (meet at Feed Bristol, see 6) © Copyright Bristol Design Team. Bristol City Council 2010 Upper Horfield Community 12–4pm Saturday 28 Allotments 24 The Trinity Garden Garden Club 17 [email protected] including orchard section , Trinity Road BS2 0NW Behind Eden Church, Eden Grove, Horfield BS7 0PQ http://simshill.co.uk Next to Redland Green Farm, Redland BS6 7HF 11am–5pm Saturday & Sunday 11am–4pm Saturday We will have a stall at Feed Bristol 12–4pm on Saturday, 0117 935 1200 · www.3ca.org.uk 2–5pm Sunday so come find us there amidst all the fun and festivities. www.uhcgc.wordpress.com Allotment holders growing fruit and vegetables on activities: Sims Hill grower Martin Campodonic will lead A thriving, community space in a predominantly urban area The Club was formed when residents converted a disused individual plots and in deep beds in our communal a tour of the Sims Hill growing land on the Feed Bristol site near the city centre. Growing area, cob house, polytunnel basketball court into a community growing space with orchard. Clothing advice as for Metford Road (see 15). and also to our original growing site across the motorway and play area. We are open all year round. Our community polytunnels, raised beds, community beds, a wild area and activities: Refreshments and advice. and just off Stoke Lane, which contains our polytunnels days are the last Sunday of the month, when everybody fruit garden. Our aim is to produce vegetables and plants bursting with fresh salad crops and our newly naturally built is welcome to get stuck into some gardening and share a at prices local people and visitors can afford. activities: 18 St George Park Community packing shed. Come join us! meal, as much as possible sourced from the garden. Our Celebrate Horfield Festival. Herbs, vegetables and flowers Garden other projects include forest schools, foraging walks and for sale. Drinks and cakes. herbal workshops. Come and meet us to find out more! St George Park, Church Road, St George BS5 7AA 21 Stoke Lane Community Garden situated on the old bandstand, Garden 29 Windmill Hill City Farm 25 Tynings Field Community Group between the tennis courts and the lake. Stoke Lane, Westbury on Trym BS9 3RW Philip Street, Bedminster BS3 4EA Woodwell Road, Shirehampton BS11 9UG 10am–12noon Saturday (access available all the time, 2–5pm Sunday 9am–4pm Saturday & Sunday 10am–5pm Sunday but volunteers on site 10am–noon on Saturday) A shared green space that is maintained and enjoyed www.windmillhillcityfarm.org.uk [email protected] by the local community. It provides a habitat for wildlife, 0117 909 0440 Experience farming in the heart of the city. activities: Facebook: St George Community Garden especially birds and insects; improves the natural Tynings Field Woodwell Road an oasis behind the All day Saturday – garden-based activities for families. Community veg garden set up in 2012 with the help of environment for local residents and visitors to the area; and Portway BS11 off Horseshoe Bend footpath and SSI. Avon Organic Group and Friends of St George Park. is a productive sustainable growing space for community If you are looking to grow veg in Bristol, here is where! 30 Woodcroft Community Orchard as we seek volunteer members activities: Join in the Run entirely by volunteers, we grow fruit and vegetables projects and local school visits. activities: Gardening Behind Woodcroft Road (access lane opposite digging, planting, poultry, orchard, bees, honey, food in four raised beds, giving local people the opportunity to tips, cookery demonstrations, plant sales, face painting, 97 Birchwood Road), St Anne’s BS4 try gardening and enjoy eating the produce. The garden is allotment tours, music and refreshments. and refreshment. Disabled toilet available on request. 10am–3pm Saturday a wonderful addition to an already beautiful Victorian park. see map at: https://woodcroftcommunityorchard. activities: On our Get Growing Day we will have fun 22 Sustainable Westbury-on-Trym 26 Tyntesfield Walled activities for children, a plant and produce sale, free seeds. Kitchen Garden wordpress.com/contact/ 47 Abbey Road, Westbury-on-Trym BS9 3QN www.facebook.com/WoodcroftCommunityOrchard Toilet available at the entrance to the park. Tyntesfield, Wraxall, North Somerset BS48 1NX 12–5pm Saturday phone Andy: 07940 888764 10am–6pm Saturday & Sunday 19 St Werburghs City Farm http://suswot.wordpress.com email [email protected] Helping local residents produce 2,000 tomato, brassica, Free entry for one with this programme and for A community run project on land at Woodcroft Road Watercress Road, St Werburghs BS2 9YJ bean, squash, herbs, pumpkin and other plants for National Trust members. Allotments. We have planted over 50 fruit trees and a range 9am–5pm Saturday & Sunday distribution in WoT. The aim is to show those people who Admission charge: Adults £9.45, children £4.75 of soft fruits. Access via a resurfaced track from Birchwood www.swcityfarm.co.uk would not normally grow any of their own food that it is www.nationaltrust.org.uk/tyntesfield Road or a lovely walk through Nightingale Valley. We will A green oasis in the heart of Bristol that connects people possible. activities: Tomato, bean, squash and pumpkin Beautiful Victorian walled garden, with flower garden, have shelter and refreshments available. activities: Free to food, the environment and the local community. and other plants for sale (at cost price) for planting outside glasshouses and restored Orangery. See a wide range workshop on fruit tree care with orchard expert ‘the Apple activities: Explore the Farm, meet the animals and and in greenhouses, plus advice on how to grow them. of vegetables and fruit, including trained apple, peach, Doctor’ who has over 40 years of experience. We will be explore our growing spaces with our discovery trail. Various seeds suitable for late sowing also available. nectarine and fig trees. See 21st century sustainability on discussing our wildflower experiments and giving away Farm produce and plants for sale and delicious food Wormeries to look at and learn about – looking to make a Victorian estate. activities: Guided tours available of seeds to visitors. We’ll also be digging and building a featuring local produce available in the café. WoT a centre of wormery skills to spread across Bristol. the garden and glass houses. Variety of produce on sale. compost toilet, as well as offering activities for kids. The Get Growing Garden Trail has been put together by the Bristol Food Network with the support of the Bristol Food Policy Council.

Bristol Food Network CIC supports, informs and connects individuals, community projects, organisations and businesses who share a vision to transform Bristol into a sustainable food city. Sign-up for Bristol’s local If you'd like to Get Growing, why not food update e-newsletter at: join one of the regular workdays at a www.bristolfoodnetwork.org growing group near you?

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Workdays: 10am–12.30pm Saturdays Open days: 1–4pm 1st Sunday of the month Easton Community Garden ‘Bristol Good Food’ is a simple Workdays: Thursdays 11–4pm (5pm summer) message developed by the Food Policy Feed Bristol Council. We believe that ‘Good Food’ is vital to the quality of people’s lives in Communal growing days: Volunteers are welcome on Mondays, the city. As well as being tasty, healthy Tuesdays & Wednesdays 9.30am–4pm; Fridays 9.30–12pm. and affordable, the food we eat should Phone to see if we’re here on Saturday: 0117 917 7270 be good for nature, good for workers, Golden Hill Community Garden good for local businesses and good for animal welfare. Show your support by Workdays: 10am–4pm Wednesdays signing the Good Food Charter at: Metford Road Community Orchard www.bristolfoodpolicycouncil.org Workdays: 3rd Sunday of the month all year round; plus 1st Sunday between March & October

Patchwork Community Gardening Group Patchwork: 6.30pm last Thursday of the month, April–September

Trinity Community Gardens Gardening drop-in sessions: 11am–5pm last Sunday of the month The trail is part of the build-up to BIG Green Week 2014 (6–21 June) – Woodcroft Community Orchard Bristol’s international festival of good Workdays: 1st Saturday of the month living and better ideas. Find more listings at: www.bristolfoodnetwork.org www.biggreenweek.com

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