Get Growing Garden open days June 2018 It's time to Get Growing ! Bristol's secret fruit & veg gardens open their gates to visitors & volunteers so you can Get Growing too 4 The Community Farm 7 Fishponds Community Orchard 12 Lawrence Weston Community Get Growing Denny Lane, Chew Magna BS40 8SZ Thingwall Park Allotments BS16 2AE. Accessed from Gardening Group (near Chew Valley lake) Thingwall Park via gates opposite either Knowsley Road Five Ways Bungalow, 2 Ridingleaze, Lawrence Weston Garden open days Community Farmer Days: 9 & 23 June, 10am–4pm or Hawkesbury Road. Follow signs to the Orchard. BS11 0QF (on the corner with Broadlands Drive) Book at: www.thecommunityfarm.co.uk/events Open day: Sunday 17 June, 12–5pm Open morning: Saturday 9 June, 10am–1pm This year, the emphasis is on Getting everyone Come and see one of our Community Farmer Days in Established Community orchard which expanded further This small garden brings members of the community Growing! so we have more volunteer sessions and action and meet the people behind the produce! The last year planted with a variety of fruit trees including some together to get to know each other, learn and share workdays on offer alongside the normal open days. Community Farm is owned by more than 500 members rare Gloucestershire varieties. Enjoy a cup of tea, cakes, knowledge, and grow fruit, vegetables and flowers. Plot your own Trail using the map inside. You’ll also of the local community. We grow and sell organic food ploughman’s, cider in this peaceful spot overlooking the The garden sits behind the Five Ways Bungalow, which is need a smartphone, SatNav or A–Z to find your via a box delivery service, and involve people in growing Frome Valley. Fruit trees, plants and local produce for sale. wheelchair accessible and has toilet facilities. We invite you way around the city. Use the symbols to plan lunch and learning about the food they eat through volunteering Find us on Facebook or email [email protected] to join us for a Garden Open Morning, with tea and cake, stops or an outing with the kids, or read a bit more and other activities. The way we farm supports nature; and activities for all ages. to pick-out projects which interest you. providing natural habitats and food sources for wildlife to The Golden Hill Weekly gardening sessions: Wednesdays 1.30–3.30pm help increase biodiversity. So while you’re eating well, so 8 Community Garden These free drop-in sessions have a focus on health and are the birds and animals around you. Hot drinks available wellbeing. Everyone welcome, and we can offer extra Entrance through the allotment gates at the bottom 1 Blaise Community Garden throughout the day. Supervised children welcome. support and accessible tools and equipment to those that of Monk Road BS7 8NE Next to Blaise Castle House Museum, Henbury Road Volunteer sessions: All day Monday–Friday need them. No experience necessary! Saturday 2 June, 11am–2pm BS10 7QS – the garden is just past the museum, through Start times 8am, 10am & 1pm. Stay for as long as you like. Amy: 0741 037 9704 · [email protected] the big black iron gates [email protected] Come and see our beautiful and productive garden and the gorgeous Bishopston Bale House – our straw bale Saturday 30 June & Sunday 1 July, 11am–3pm www.thecommunityfarm.co.uk/regular-weekday- 13 KWHA's Let's Grow volunteering/ eco house. Our garden is packed packed with innovation – 1790’s walled garden in Blaise Estate, presently under wall built out of recycled tetra paks; the Tower of Power Community Garden & Allotment restoration by volunteers, growing flowers, fruit, vegetables 01275 29 50 29 · [email protected] solar pump providing recycled water to over 200 allotment Springfield Allotments, Andover Road, Knowle BS4 1AJ and building amenities. ACTIVITIES: Come and find out www.thecommunityfarm.co.uk plots and an edible forest. Wheelchair accessible including On the corner of the roundabout and Andover Rd there is a about the history of the garden, have a tour, take part toilet, disabled parking available on request. green gate that accesses the allotment site, we are the fist in growing activities for all the family and help plant our 5 Easton Community Garden ACTIVITIES: Plants for sale, pond dipping, tea and cake. site on the right as you come in. wheelbarrow gardens. Tea and cakes will be available Gordon Road, Easton/Whitehall BS5 7DR. Access down Tuesdays 10am–1pm & Thursdays 10am–2pm and plants on sale. Café and toilets in Blaise Estate. 07506 905 394 · [email protected] lane between house nos 58 & 60 opposite Rose Green www.thegoldenhillcommunitygarden.com We are a community allotment project which is part of Workdays: Every Wednesday & Saturday, 10am–2pm Centre. ‘Easton Community Garden’ sign indicates where Knowle West Health Association. We produce fruit & veg https://blaisecommunitygarden.org.uk to turn off the Bristol to Bath Railway path. 9 Hartcliffe Health & and engage people in a variety of activities to help promote [email protected] Tour available on 21 June as part of WALK C Environment Action Group their physical and mental health & wellbeing. The majority Open day: Sunday 24 June, 11am–4pm of our produce is used in our Community Kitchen where Bramble Farm Bourchier Allotments. Adjacent to 119 Crosscombe 2 Normal opening hours: Every Thursday, 11am–4pm Drive, Hartcliffe BS13 0DA we run cookery classes, or can be purchased by members Community Smallholding of the community at a lower price than the nearest We are a beautiful volunteer-run collaborative kitchen Saturday 16 June, 11am–3pm Sat Nav postcode BS4 1AW From Redcatch Road, enter garden. Local people are welcomed on a drop-in basis supermarket. ACTIVITIES: wildlife pond, and bee friendly Summer Fayre at the Roundhouse Garden. Garden & Stockwood Crescent and we are midpoint around the every Thursday throughout the year and take home a share planting, explore the poly-tunnels and outdoor growing Roundhouse with stunning views of Bristol. (Disabled crescent. Walk through the privet hedges on to Northern of the produce. The project was started in 2001 and has plots, and enjoy the beautiful scenery overlooking the Access from Blagrove Crescent.) Activities for both Slopes. Park and turn right. Signs will lead the way! thrived as a demonstration permaculture site ever since. Northern Slopes and Bristol Suspension Bridge. adults and children. Saturday 23 & Sunday 24 June, 11am–5pm We have a shelter in case it rains and a compost loo. 0117 9639569 · [email protected] [email protected] https://kwha1.wordpress.com/ We are a community group growing vegetables and raising www.facebook.com/eastoncommunitygarden/ www.hheag.org.uk/?Community_Food_Growing animals for produce to feed our families high quality, high 14 welfare, locally produced, fresh food. ACTIVITIES: Meet 6 Feed Bristol Horfield Organic Community The Malago Greenway Berry Maze the farm animals. Pet’s Corner. Seed sowing in newspaper 10 181 Frenchay Park Rd (on the corner with Stoke Lane) Orchard Brixham Road Open Space – the small park between pots. Plant and produce sales. Children’s activities. BBQ Parson St/Lynton Rd and Marksbury Rd BS3 5LL Stapleton BS16 1HB Walk down lane beside 22 Kings Drive BS7 8JP and refreshments. Cake sale. Members on hand to give https://goo.gl/maps/2cnga4nDUsx urban smallholding advice. Saturday 2 June 10am–5pm Saturday 16 June, 1–5pm Feed Bristol wildflower nursery open day Saturday 30 June, 10am–12 noon Pioneering, member-managed orchard, inspiring fruit ACTIVITIES: Tours of Feed Bristol and Sims Hill The Berry Maze is an unique project, crowdfunded and growing as a way to grow community, wellbeing, and 3 City Academy Bristol Community built by volunteers. It is one of a kind in the world and Saturday 23 June 12noon–5pm local sustainable food. ACTIVITIES: Home Orchard Plot – Allotment (CABCA) features more than 16 types of berries – 240 plants – all Feed Bristol 30 Days Wild productive fruit for small spaces. Orchard Roots Bristol – City Academy Bristol (CAB), Russell Town Ave BS5 9JH edible, on a surface of 840sqm, along with a wonderful Midsummer wildlife gardening celebration exhibition and stories of local, heritage apples. See how a Use the car park entrance to CAB nearest Canon St/ mosaic, 2 benches and an impressive 8x4m painting on ACTIVITIES: Tours of Feed Bristol and Sims Hill. Live music, community group transformed marginal land into a Whitehall Rd. The allotment is through a green metal gate the central slab. ACTIVITIES: On 30 June we have a maze café, hot food fresh from the plots, kids activities. beautiful, fruitful urban oasis. Orchard Learning – hands-on, on the right before Easton Community Children’s Centre. maintenance work session, alongside a litter pick in the fruit growing courses. Homemade cakes, refreshments, Thursday 21 June Normal hours: Weekdays except Thursdays 10am–4pm park. We can organise tours of the maze with one of the produce and plants for sale. 10.45am–1.30pm: Tour of CABCA as part of WALK C and first Saturday of the month 10am–4pm volunteers and will have a professional gardener on site to 1.30–3pm: Open afternoon/work session at CABCA Feed Bristol is Avon Wildlife Trust’s unique, nature-rich www.community-orchard.org.uk reply to any technical questions. Children can draw a berry community hub and wildflower nursery. Come and explore ABCA was created in around 2006 by Barton Hill and 11 mascot for us and be rewarded with a lolly or fruit. Redfield residents with the support of BCC, Community this six acres of growing space, with wildlife ponds, Incredible Edible Bristol www.facebook.com/TheBerryMaze2017 at Heart and CAB.