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 Fishponds 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/Bristol 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 Eastville Park 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