Get Growing Garden Trail Saturday 9 & Sunday 10 June 2012 Bramble Farm Sims Hill Shared Harvest Metford Road Community Orchard Thornbury Harvest Co-op Visit over 30 community gardens, allotments & orchards around Bristol to fi nd out more about growing your own fruit & veg Part of Bristol's BIG Green Week 6 Community Farm 10 GREENS Community Market Garden Denny Lane, Chew Magna BS40 8SZ (Hartcliffe HHEAG) 11.30am–2.30pm Saturday Molesworth Allotments, Molesworth Drive Over 30 sites are open at various times The Community Farm is a social enterprise (between house nos 79 and 81), Get Growing Withywood BS13 9BJ over the weekend, showcasing a diverse established in April 2011. Owned by its 500 members, it holds education & volunteering days, runs training 10am–3pm Saturday range of growing projects. Each group and grows organic veg on 22 acres. Running a box GREENS grow fresh fruit and vegetables with the Garden Trail has a different way of organising the scheme with nearly 400 customers, the farm aims to help of volunteers at a community allotment site. reconnect people with where their food comes from The produce is used in nutrition and cooking courses, Saturday 9 & Sunday 10 June 2012 work, cultivating the land, and sharing through producing tasty organic veg. ACTIVITIES: See and is sold to course participants and other local the harvest – come and fi nd out what one of our volunteer days in action and meet some of people at low cost through our Food For All food the people involved! www.thecommunityfarm.co.uk co-op. ACTIVITIES: Tours of the market garden & Bristol’s secret vegetable growers open would fi t best for you. orchard (including the compost loo). Sale of plants their garden gates and community plots 7 Ecohome Create and produce. BBQ and cream teas will be on sale, Smeaton Road BS1 6XN and some free food tasters using fresh produce will for the 2nd Get Growing Garden Trail. 10am–4pm Saturday be available to try. 3 Come and see what lies behind the Buried Treasure as part of ELM Small is beautiful – visit the Ecohome garden at (Edible Landscapes Movement) 11 Here we grow garden walls and get inspired to get Create, a small organic plot cared for by volunteers. The Polytunnel, The Park Opportunity Centre, Discover fruit, vegetables, fl owers and plants in a Based at Five-ways Bungalow, growing too. Daventry Road, Knowle BS4 1DQ unique urban space overlooking the River Avon. 2 Ridingleaze, Lawrence Weston BS11 0QF 10am–3pm Saturday ACTIVITIES: Join herbalist Max Drake on a herbal walk part of Public Health Directorate, NHS Bristol Knowle West food growers producing veg in urban along the riverbank at 2pm – learn how to identify 10am–1pm Saturday spaces and local gardens, using digital media to the array of herbs and discover their therapeutic The garden is a project by the community, for the support collaboration and to share the story with properties. (£5, pay on day, to book: 0117 927 6527 community. ACTIVITIES: Come and help us build 1 Arup urban growing group the local community. Produce is sold back to the email [email protected]). our herb garden within our community garden at community and local cafés through a local veg box Five-ways Bungalow. We are in our fi rst year, and The park at the crossing of Portwall Lane and 8 Pippen Street outside Chatterton House BS1 6JZ scheme. ACTIVITIES: Seedlings and vegetables for Feed Bristol looking to develop the space. no experience needed, 2–4pm Saturday (The plot is by its nature open sale. Talk to volunteers about urban growing and Frenchay Park Road on the corner everyone welcome. 24 hours but it will be manned at this time) how to use digital media to drive food production with Stoke Lane, Stapleton BS16 1HB and procurement. 12 Horfield Organic Community Orchard The Portwall urban veg plot was started in April 2011 10am–4pm Saturday & Sunday We support groups and individuals to grow organically Walk down lane beside 22 Kings Drive BS7 8JP on an under-used area of council park by a keen 4 Clifton Chilli Club at Easter Garden bunch of local offi ce workers. We have three large in a nature-friendly way on small and fi eld scale plots, 10am–5pm Saturday beds and tend them during our lunchtime with the aim Easter Garden Community Project, whilst promoting wildlife conservation. Disabled A pioneering, member-managed orchard, inspiring of socialising, learning something about veg growing Wesley Place, Clifton BS8 2YE access. ACTIVITIES: Explore how nature helps us grow; fruit growing as a way to grow community, wellbeing, and hopefully inspiring others to get stuck in! 10am–5pm Saturday workshops on veg growing from balconies to bountiful and local sustainable food. ACTIVITIES: Tours of 100 A social club for people with a love of chilli peppers. fi elds; sample delights from our ‘grow-your-own’ different varieties of fruiting trees – many grown in 2 Bramble Farm Community Smallholding We grow a wide variety of chillies (and many other therapeutic café; and discover our ‘Hide and Seek’ ways to suit small spaces. Seasonal ‘wild-cooking’ From Redcatch Road, enter Stockwood Crescent varieties of fruit and vegetables) in several growing badger den. Visit www.feedbristol.org.uk for minibus show & taste. Homemade cakes, refreshments, and we are midpoint around the crescent. Walk locations in the area. ACTIVITIES: Chilli tasting, chilli details and much much more... produce and plants for sale. Ask members fruit and food growing questions. through the privet hedges on to Northern Slopes sauce and jam tasting, Raffl e. 9 Park and turn right. Signs will lead the way! Fishponds Community Orchard Sat Nav postcode BS4 1AW 5 College Garden On the large allotment site off Thingwall Park, 13 Lawrence Weston Community Farm 11am–5pm Saturday & Sunday The Artspace College, Marksbury Road BS3 5JJ Fishponds, Plot 180. Entrance via the gates where Saltmarsh Drive BS11 0NJ we’ll post information re plot site and access. We are a community group growing vegetables 12–4pm Saturday & 12–2pm Sunday 10am–4.30pm Saturday & Sunday and raising animals for produce to feed our families A temporary community garden at the old South 2–4pm Saturday & Sunday Volunteers look after gardens and raised beds, fl ower high quality, high welfare, locally produced, fresh Bristol Technical College. ACTIVITIES: On Saturday Transport: No 48 & 49 buses from centre. and vegetable growing. Throughout the year we run food. ACTIVITIES: Meet the farm animals. Chantelle’s we’ll be open 12–4pm – this is our gardening day so Bath/Bristol cycle path (exit Alcove Road) a variety of formal and informal courses, activities Pet’s Corner. Seed sowing in newspaper pots. Plant come and join in. There’ll be food and refreshments This small orchard is in a lovely spot on an allotment and events. Volunteers help with all aspects of the and produce sales. Children’s activities. BBQ and available. On Sunday we’ll be open from 12–2pm site, next to 70 acres of green space in Eastville running of the farm including looking after the animals, refreshments, cake sale and pizzas from our for tours around the garden. At 2pm we will lead a Park – so feel free to bring a picnic if the weather is gardening, woodland work, orchard, wildlife garden, home built pizza oven. Members on hand bicycle ride to our satellite project, The Growroom good. ACTIVITIES: We will talk about the history of the administration and others. to give urban smallholding advice. on Redcliffe Bridge and a Tomato Picnic. orchard, the varieties of apple trees and encourage www.lwfarm.org.uk · 0117 938 1128 people to help us do some weeding. Get Growing Garden Trail Get Growing Garden 14 Metford Road Community Orchard Metford Road Allotments, Metford Road, Redland BS6 7LA 2–5pm Saturday We grow fruit trees, soft fruit, herbs, chutney plants, and a few nuts on a south-facing slope with a grapevine at the top, stream at the bottom, and numerous small ponds. We use permaculture principles. The site is natural and wildlife-friendly. Please wear sensible shoes as the slope is steep and uneven, and can be very slippery. ACTIVITIES: Guided walkabouts, and tea and biscuits/cake (donations invited). Produce and plant sales. 15 Redland Green Allotment Association & Community Orchard Redland Green Farm, Redland BS6 7HF 2–5pm Saturday An allotment association growing fruit and vegetables on individual plots and in deep beds in our community orchard. Clothing advice as for Metford Road (above). ACTIVITIES: Refreshments and advice. 16 Sims Hill Shared Harvest Stoke Lane, Frenchay – Go along farm track on the right, immediately after bridge over the motorway 11am–3pm Saturday We are hoping to partner with our sister project Feed Bristol to offer a minibus service up to the plots which are both located in the fertile Frenchay area of former market gardens. ACTIVITIES: This year we will be having our summer community celebration event on the site so look for lots of good homemade food and drink, children’s activities, and farm tours featuring our homegrown veg plots, potentially brand new polytunnels, and several acres of woodland. 17 St Werburghs City Farm Watercress Road, St Werburghs BS2 9YJ Saturday – Farm open 8.30am–5pm, but member of staff on site 11am–1pm ACTIVITIES: From 11am–1pm a member of the horticultural unit will be on site to talk about the work we do at the farm and do a group seasonal activity at 12pm. There will be a half-hour tour of the local community garden nearby to show the work we do there at 1pm.