’s local food update courses · skill-sharing · events · news · volunteering january–february 2010

January is a great time for making plans, and with this in mind, we asked contributors to this newsletter to share their hopes and aspirations for 2010. Hopefully some of us will share the same dreams, making it more likely that these will blossom into fruitful plans during the course of the year. Please email any suggestions for content of the March–April newsletter to [email protected] by 13 February. Bristol: fruit garden of Andy Hamilton

I have been toying with one idea over the point (the council not the youths), if you home, somewhat shaken, and recalled last few months. I would love to see 2010 walk around Bristol in the autumn you will this story to my girlfriend she asked if I food-producing trees (and vines) planted see countless trees dripping in rotten fruit. told them at any point that I was eating around Bristol next year. Imagine Indeed, some councils have even stopped cherries. I realised that I had not and that, walking along the harbourside picking people picking fruit altogether – if you can despite living in the house next to this mulberries, biting into an apple picked recall back to 2006 in Worcester when the tree, these people did not know that the from outside your local corner shop council cornered off a tree with ‘caution fruit was edible. It is of little wonder that or even leaning out of an office block falling fruit’. so much fruit is left in trees across our window to pick grapes or kiwi fruits. It For a long time I could not understand why city if no one knows that public trees can would certainly be part of a very simple more people did not fill their fruit bowls. contain public fruit! solution toward our future food security. This question was answered back in May What this illustrates is that in order to It does seem short sighted to me that last year when I was picking cherries from convince the council to plant any fruit and municipal planting schemes don’t generally a public tree. nut trees in 2010, it is clear that some allow for fruit and nut trees. If you go to “Oi, aren’t they poisonous?” education into the edible fruits is needed Seville in Spain you will see orange trees “I wouldn’t be eating them if they were.” first. So my goal for 2010 will be slightly along the streets and many people do just “Why are you eating them.” altered and instead I’ll aim to teach 2010 walk past and help themselves. So, why “Because they are free and very nice.” people what fruit they can eat from trees. not apple trees here in the UK? “You weirdo, go ahead and eat out of trees.” Perhaps I can then get them all to help “Where do you think your apples and plant a tree each in 2011 and if I plant one I have heard unofficially from the council oranges come from?” myself it will make 2011 trees in 2011 a very that they don’t like to plant fruit trees achievable target. because they are left unpicked and fall off I had to cycle off rather than wait for an the tree rotten, or are used as missiles by answer as the atmosphere had got rather [email protected] disenfranchised youths. They do have a tense by this point. When I arrived back www.Selfsufficientish.com

Peak oil: bringing food production closer Peak oil exhibition, Create Centre No to Palm Oil Power Station in to home digest: Large amounts of fossil fuels are digest: The Bristol Peak Oil report makes used in growing, processing, packaging Crops are for eating, not for burning. it clear that without cheap oil we will and transporting food. Growing our own Sign the online petition at: struggle to feed ourselves. food locally helps reduce our dependency http://epetitions.bristol.gov.uk/ on oil and the impact of climate change. www.ecojam.org/interact/ petition.php?id=302 bristols-green-news/peak-oil- www.bristol.gov.uk/ccm/content/ bringing-food-production-closer-to- Environment-Planning/sustainability/

Bristol online Bristol home?searchterm=peak+oil peak-oil.en ‘Feed Bristol’ & the Blue Finger Following on from Richard Spalding’s recent articles for the newsletter there are now some updates on land use along the ‘Blue Finger.’ Many readers may well be aware that Bristol City Council (working alongside Council and the West of England Partnership) has announced plans to develop a Park and Ride facility in . This would form part of the proposed rapid transit route linking the North Fringe to and South Bristol. The park and ride and rapid transit routes require funding from the Department of Transport and the deadline for this process is March 2010. Now also begins a lengthy consultation process (begun on 1 December) with a series of exhibitions presenting the proposals and inviting the comments and objections from Bristol residents. Information provided by a lengthy to feed ourselves and strengthen our Key to the success of these enterprises feasibility study has highlighted 5 communities. The threat of loss can invoke and a flourishing local food culture will potential sites for the park and ride all a galvanised response. be support from Bristol City Council. of which fall on the Blue Finger and the We require a long-term commitment to A diverse group has formed to develop amazing soils found there. The preferred sustainable land use and access to land and launch Stoke Park Community Farm site appears to consist of about a third of across the city. This demands a close (working title) and has been offered Stapleton Allotments and the surrounding working relationship between residents, council owned grazing land on the west smallholdings, classified as Grade 1 grass roots enterprises, local landowners, side of the M32. The aims of the project agricultural land. If the proposals were the business community, and the local are to create a member-owned and -led successful it would mean allotment authority. If Bristol is to become a Green food growing initiative based on the and smallholding tenants being evicted Capital then we must keep our green ethics and principles of permaculture, and the loss of this amazing resource spaces and we must have an integrated where members contribute to the running forever. There are serious concerns approach to our future needs. The of the project in return for a share in over the impact this would have to the spotlight is on the Council and it is down the veg grown. It is likely that there will health and well being of residents in the to us all to ask the right questions and also be opportunities for members and Frenchay community not to mention the to demand a commitment to a local food the wider community to use the site as consequences to Bristol’s sustainable agenda. an educational and social resource. It future. is thanks to a few progressive council The Frenchay and community The onset of climate change and energy officers that this process has begun. are united in their opposition to the Park peak will demand a greater and more and Ride but it is unclear if this is enough The project will compliment work being intelligent use of our natural capital, to halt development. It’s essential that as initiated by the Avon Wildlife Trust who and the soils of the Blue Finger will be many Bristol residents as possible register plan to launch their ‘Feed Bristol’ project a keystone in establishing a localised their opposition. Details of the proposals along the Blue Finger. Participants will food network. Park and ride schemes are can be found at www.travelplus.org.uk/ have the opportunity to experience often referred to as ‘green infrastructure’ NorthFringetoHengrove. Objections and growing in exchange for produce and an but in a low energy future it will be soils, comments can be registered online at opportunity to work alongside expert trees, water and community where the http://visuals.sdgworld.net/surveys/ mentors. Veg from the site will also supply real resources lie. The decisions we make bristol/ The deadline for this feedback local residents now will have far reaching implications process is 8 January when public response and determine the nature of our energy Both projects place a high value on will be taken to councillors and could descent. community involvement and an equality influence the decision making process. of access to land. This Community There is also an online petition found The park and ride could present a Supported Agriculture is a popular and at http://epetitions.bristol.gov.uk/ precedent for development along the commercially sustainable model, widely petition.php?id=214 M32 corridor where we lose the ‘garden used in Northern Europe, the USA and of Bristol’ forever to city extensions etc. James Adamson is working with others to Japan and gaining increasing support in This could prove to have disastrous launch Stoke Park Community Farm. the UK thanks to The Soil Association and consequences for food security. However, To register interest with the project and to Plunkett Foundation’s efforts. it also presents an opportunity to reclaim be placed on the mailing list please email derelict, underused yet prime land [email protected].

2 bristol’s local food update · january–february 2010 Re-uniting food and place Conferences Organic Research Centre in the future Conference As the frost grips the land and the snow 7–8 January 2010 causes us to slow down for a while, I Harper Adams College, Shropshire want to tell a midwinter story of food and place. It begins 668 years ago when Around 40 speakers. Plenary sessions keen axes and keener eyes began to cut focus on Sustainable Food Security and and fashion the oak timbers that were to Climate Change whilst the workshop form the great trusses for the medieval sessions cover issues including livestock barn in Winterbourne, just a few miles nutrition, varieties and breeding, farm from the centre of Bristol. economics, nutrient management, animal welfare, GM issues, biodiversity This agricultural storehouse was built in management, market trends and 1342 and remains an iconic symbol of communicating the organic message. the 14th Century agrarian economy. We would do well to think carefully about the www.organicinform.org continuity of food growing in and around the barn over this long period. The barn sits on the strip of high quality agricultural Soil Association Annual land (known as the Blue Finger) which Conference runs from city centre Bristol out into open 3 & 4 February 2010 countryside. The Custard Factory, Birmingham It is a story of centuries of self provisioning Finger? James Kline’s image of the sun £100 members/£150 non-members and local food production and has market streaming through to light the roof and The challenges of climate change, gardening, rhubarb, horse manure, salad floor of the barn tells a story of confidence resource depletion, population growth, vegetables and top and soft fruit at its in medieval agriculture, whilst Emma diet-related ill-health and meeting UK CO2 heart. It is a story of the city region feeding Darnton’s photo of waiting wheelbarrows reduction targets of 80% by 2050 all mean itself in large measure. provides us with a “sense of the possible” that business as usual in food and farming for our collective food futures. The story continues in 2010 on Saturday is no longer an option. The conference 16 January and Saturday 20 February We have an opportunity in the post presents a series of debates about the between 10am–1pm when I would like to Copenhagen climate to finally realise respective roles of science, politics, invite you to visit the barn to join us in that this food and place work will not be farming and food sectors in the action, celebrating its heritage and possibly to delivered by politicians. Food security innovation and transition to sustainable think about joining us in the quest to could just emerge out of a fusion of all our models that is needed if we are to feed revitalise it as a Centre for Rural local efforts, but only if our case for land, ourselves now and in the future. Regeneration. soil and communities is trumpeted at www.soilassociation.org/ (Go to www.winterbournebarn.co.uk every opportunity. Whatwedo/Campaignsandpolicies/ for more details). The food stories here cover seven Annualconference/tabid/218/Default. I have a sense that we must now begin centuries of the most intimate connection aspx to develop our individual projects into with the earth below our feet. The land something with real coherence so that we awaits our attention and its needs a long are able to support each other in a push to term perspective if we are to secure our National Growing Schools “Feed Bristol” once again. food supplies for the next 668 years. Conference My food place is Winterbourne Medieval To the lengthening days! Good wishes “Growing the Future” Barn and its landscape. What is your food Richard Spalding Thursday 25 March 2010 and place story from or near the Blue [email protected] University of Oxford Botanic Garden £80 A range of workshops to include: Allotments and vegetable growing · Royal Horticultural Society · Primary and secondary education based tours of the University of Oxford Botanic Garden · School Farms Network · Hot Art ·National Association of Field Studies Officers · Organising LOtC visits, risk assessments and HASLOC 01422 885 566 [email protected]

3 bristol’s local food update · january–february 2010 What’s happened about Food news from the Council the sustainable food Bristol City Council has supported the development of local food initiatives in the city for many years, strategy for Bristol? to which the weekly St Nicholas Farmers’ Market, the popularity of allotments and support for Back in August a summary of the vulnerabilities lie. The second stage will community initiatives is a testament. strategy was published in the Bristol be to address the vulnerabilities in the The Council also incorporated strong local food update newsletter. Since then form of a ‘resilient food plan’ which will targets over local food procurement the small interim Bristol food network need input from a wide range of players in the school meals contract. Despite steering group (Amy Robinson, Bordeaux – from community groups through to the these efforts, there has been little Quay; Kristen Sponsler, Transition policy and decision makers. There was consistency over food procurement Bristol; Joy Carey, former Head of Local strong support for this proposal and if it is across the council, yet this remains Food at the Soil Association; and Paul successfully funded it should help inform the greatest opportunity to support Rainger, Forum for the Future) have Bristol’s policy and decision-makers, the development of a localised food been working on plans for delivering the and provide stronger understanding of, production and supply network in strategy. and increased strategic support for the the city. sustainable food strategy and the work of A stage 1 concept for a Bristol food all the members of the Bristol local food With the production of the Bristol network project prepared by Claire network. Peak Oil report there is a renewed Milne was approved by the Big Lottery opportunity and incentive to address Local Food Fund in June 2009. Following The challenge this. This report can be found on the much discussion of the interim steering A huge amount of local food activity is City Council website ( group, Forum for the Future, within its www.bristol. going on in and around Bristol which Sustainable Bristol programme has agreed gov.uk/ccm/content/Environment- is really inspiring but it needs a higher to take a lead on developing a 2nd stage Planning/sustainability/file- profile, and it needs to be really valued Big Lottery Local Food Fund bid with storage-items/peak-oil-report.en; and supported by other people around advisory input from Joy Carey. Forum for jsessionid=B5AEFC5631DB3AABF2 the City. If the lottery bid is successful, it ). the Future supported the development 9257C78847B689.tcwwwaplaws2 will help by providing coordination for the The report makes a strong case for the of the original strategy, particularly in Bristol food network with regular events, city to become more self-sufficient in the final stages, and have agreed to information and support for members. It terms of its food supplies. Councillor develop and submit the new lottery bid will help bring people together to work on Bev Knott, the Executive Member for on behalf of the Bristol food network. delivering the sustainable food strategy Care and Neighbourhoods has made The maximum total grant application is and also to make sure that this kind of a commitment to use this report to £300,000 over a 3-year period, for which work is properly linked in with activities of ensure the Council helps to build a further match funding is also required by the City Council, the PCT and Government sustainable food system for the city. the Big Lottery. In summary the aims are Office South West. It will help provide clear to strengthen the Bristol food network and Work is underway to develop a policy targets for us to work towards together e.g. to work together to deliver key aspects statement on sustainable food – a more land within the city being used for of the sustainable food strategy through food charter for the city council. food production and more people learning community involvement in increasing Alongside this a minimum standard for to grow fruit and veg. If we end up with a production, availability and consumption sustainable food is being developed. food plan for Bristol, then there should be of sustainable food in and around the This will be an amalgamation of the a load more support for the work of the city. More details on the new bid will be Soil Association Food for Life standard Bristol food network, as well as increased available in January 2010. At the moment and the Government’s draft Healthy higher level commitment to action like the idea is to call it ‘Bristol Garden City’ Food Mark. These initiatives will start adopting the Soil Association’s Food for and to have a really strong focus on to bring some coherence to how Life targets that supports sustainable food increasing food growing on land within different departments deal with food procurement. the city. issues in their work. It is also intended Joy Carey [email protected] that the Charter will link very closely Strengthening support at the City Level with community food developments Download the full strategy at: Following the publication of the Bristol now being brought forward under the www.transitionbristol.net/wp-content/ Peak Oil report, the Green Capital Bristol Partnership “Green Capital” uploads/2009/05/Bristol-Food-Strategy- Momentum Group requested project banner. These initiatives should Network-updated-24th-June2.pdf proposals that would move the city greatly help the development of a towards becoming a ‘greener capital’. One more sustainable food system in the of these proposals was for a resilient food city with a particular emphasis on plan for Bristol. This would be developed healthy, low carbon food. in two stages. The first will be an , Sustainable Cities Team analytical study on how Bristol currently Steve Marriot feeds itself and where its strengths and [email protected]

4 bristol’s local food update · january–february 2010 Courses & workshops Permaculture Design course Bristol Adult Learning Courses at the University of 13 week Permaculture Design Certificate Services courses Bristol Botanic Gardens course. Thursday evenings and weekend Hollybush Lane, , Bristol field trips. Organic Gardening For all course information: Starting 6.45pm–9.30pm, 14 Jan 2010 10am – 12pm Wednesdays, www.bristol.ac.uk/Depts/ Hamilton House, , Bristol BotanicGardens/about/education.htm Tutor: Sarah Pugh 10 sessions from 13 Jan £300, low wage £200, unwaged £100 Stoke Lodge, Road, Stoke Bishop, Bristol BS9 1BN Setting up an allotment – An exploration of the principles and Tutor: Jon Wheatley An introduction for beginners practice of Permaculture. Information, £80 / £40 course ref: WB7000ASL ideas and inspiration towards a Four weekly meetings Learn how to grow your own food in a sustainable future. Talks, workshops, 7–9pm Tuesday evenings 9–30th March small space without the use of artificial slide shows and practical sessions. Plus Tutor: Tim Foster · £40 chemicals. The best techniques are a choice of weekend field trips around covered for the organic cultivation of the Growing vegetables is hugely rewarding the South West and Wales including CAT, main vegetable groups and fruit. with more people taking on an allotment Community Supported Agriculture, small for the first time. In this short course Tim holdings, urban projects, woodland The course will include some practical Foster will explain the basics of setting communities, low impact buildings and demonstrations, eg seed growing, pricking up a growing space, including ground more. The course culminates in practical out, potting on, etc. clearing, bed construction, siting of group design project. perennials and fixtures, soils, fertility, crop planning and rotations. The course Email: bristol_permaculture.co.uk for a Pruning – All you need to know booking form. will give first time allotment owners 10am – 4pm Saturday 13 March enough information to get them started Stoke Lodge, Shirehampton Road, and achieve success within the first year. One year Practical Stoke Bishop, Bristol BS9 1BN Sustainability course Tutor: Jon Wheatley £30 / £15 · course ref: WB7101BSL 16 hours per week starts 22 April 2010 Hamilton House, Stokes Croft, Bristol A practical workshop which shows you £1,800 for the full year’s tuition how to prune fruit, shrubs and roses. Heard all you need to hear about global environmental problems and the need for Organic Gardening change? Looking for creative solutions to prepare for a post-oil, low carbon future? 6.30pm–8.30pm Wednesdays, The Practical Sustainability Course is an 20 sessions from 6 January in-depth hands-on study of all aspects of St Paul’s Learning and Family Centre, sustainability. 94 Grosvenor Road, St Paul’s, Bristol BS2 8XJ Covering Permaculture Design, Tutor: Tim Foster Organic Horticulture, Green Building, £192 / £20 · course ref: CTEK00622F Energy, Woodland Management, Soil, An introduction to bee keeping Ecological Interactions, Group Dynamics, The ultimate how-to-grow-your-own Communication, Conflict Resolution, food course, suitable for allotments A six week course on Sunday mornings Transition, Herbal Medicine, Animal and gardens. The main groups of fruit 10am–12.30pm 1 April–16 May Husbandry and much much more. and vegetables are covered, plus the Tutor: David Maslin · £70 best organic techniques for sustainable An introduction for those intending to This course offers holistic, challenging, production. hands-on learning to give you the skills keep bees which will cover the technical you need to make positive change in your In addition to the 20 weekly sessions, aspects of beekeeping including bee life and community. the course includes 12 practical Saturday behaviour, necessary equipment , setting sessions from 9–11, on an allotment, to up and managing a hive, swarm control, A collaboration of some of the most link in with the lessons. The dates will be bee health and diseases, products, experienced tutors in the South West arranged by the tutor in consultation with processing and marketing. Numbers including Sarah Pugh, Patrick Whitefield, the group. strictly limited. Dr Chris Johnstone, Tim Foster, Matt Dunwell, Max Drake, Jackson Moulding, www.bristol.gov.uk/ccm/cms-service/ Justin Smith, Jenni Horsfall, Ben Law and stream/asset/?asset_id=31106010& many more. For more information see: www.shiftbristol.org.uk

5 bristol’s local food update · january–february 2010 More courses LILI courses at Windmill Hill Urban/small-space gardening City Farm 10am–5pm 24 April · £60 The Low-Impact Living Initiative (LILI) is running series of 1-day environmental Growing plants in containers is often the courses at Windmill Hill City Farm. only practical option in certain situations – especially where space is limited, as is LILI is a non-profit organisation whose often the case in urban areas. Container mission is to help people reduce their gardening is adaptable and versatile. Ideal Spring Organic Gardening impact on the environment, improve their for balconies, landings, patios, courtyards Course quality of life, gain new skills, live in a or roof areas – this method of growing 10am–12.30pm Thursdays healthier and more satisfying way, have allows you to create a perfect growing 4 February–8 April fun and save money. For more details: environment for any particular plant, and Trinity Arts Centre, Old Market with the proper attention a container www.lowimpact.org/venues_south_ £80 (waged) or £40 (unwaged) west.html garden can be as productive as one planted directly in the ground. Take a flying leap into the growing season.

Cheese-making www.lowimpact.org/windmill_hill_ Get set up to eat from your garden all year. container_gardening.htm This 10-week course will focus on seasonal 10am–5pm 27 February · £60 tasks and skills. Are you a cheese enthusiast who would We will cover… like to know more? Perhaps you would WEA courses at Windmill Hill Growing fruit and veg · Planning your like to make cheese yourself. In either season · Working with limited space – case this one-day course will be a helpful stacking it up · Growing in containers · introduction. The course is taught by Judy Grow your own organic food – Building fertility – compost, wormeries, King who milks goats and makes goat, cow Vegetables and salads green manures · Making a garden for and sheep cheese on a small commercial medicinal and culinary herbs · Fruit bush scale at Wharf Farm Dairy. Thursdays 9.30am–12.30pm and tree pruning · Making a wildflower starting 14 January 2010 · £74.00 meadow · Avoiding pest and disease www.lowimpact.org/windmill_hill_ problems cheesemaking.htm A course to provide you with the know how to grow your own organic food effectively The sessions will be a mix of ideas and in your garden or allotment plot. Includes information indoors, followed by hands-on Keeping Chickens theories and practicals. work in the thriving community garden. We have a poly-tunnel, compost loo, 10am–5pm 10 April · £60 Contact: simone.dougall@ lots of fruit trees and a friendly bunch of windmillhillcityfarm.org.uk The course will cover the basics of keeping volunteers. chickens and help you to plan your brood. www.windmillhillcityfarm.org.uk/ After the class feel free to go, or you are There will also be hands-on experience course/enrolment.html of handling and inspecting chickens. This very welcome to stick around for lunch course is suitable for vegetarians wishing (bring your own) and then our regular to keep chickens for eggs, but there will volunteer day in the afternoon, which runs be a discussion on the use of chickens for Volunteer sessions from 1–5pm every Thursday. meat, and the ethical issues involved. & free courses To join or find out more, call Tom on 07988 460373, or email [email protected] www.lowimpact.org/windmill_hill_ Windmill Hill City Farm continues to strive chickens.htm for creative ways to embrace the future. www.eastsideroots.org.uk/ I run organic community food growing www.3ca.org.uk/projects/trinity- volunteer sessions in the week as well as gardens Cultivating edible mushrooms 1st & 3rd Sundays every month. Everyone 10am–5pm 17 April · £60 welcome. Please get in touch: becky. [email protected] By the end of the day we will have taken you through the steps needed to There are FREE courses for families at understand the processes involved in Windmill Hill City Farm throughout the cultivating mushrooms at home. This will winter focusing on teaching the adult to provide a platform from which to start teach the child through informal play and cultivating as soon as you have all the learning sessions. All of my courses focus necessary components and a little space – on food growing and the natural world. under the stairs or in a basement or loft. Please contact me if you are interested. Becky Thoburn (as above). There are www.lowimpact.org/windmill_hill_ many other FREE family courses including mushrooms.html cookery and computers!

6 bristol’s local food update · january–february 2010 Self-sufficientish in 2010 Russell Town Avenue Home brewing 7–9pm 4 February · Boiling Wells Lane, Bristol · £5 per person Community Allotment Learn how to make ales and country wines without having to use kits; using ingredients and to some extent equipment available to yourself. We will be learning in a relaxed informal atmosphere and you will only be taught exactly what you need to know without being too blinded by the science (unless you want to be). The £5 will cover the cost of hiring the venue and materials. If this course is successful further dates will be available.

Springtime Forage 10am–2pm 20 March , Bristol · £35 per person Who said this was the hungry gap? Discover the food available long before The Allotment is in the grounds of City Gardening for wildlife worshop the vegetable garden starts producing. Academy Bristol, Easton/Lawrence Hill. Learn to tap a birch tree, make detoxing Use the City Academy entrance nearest 1–4pm Saturday 6 February drinks, pick nettles without gloves and the Zebra Crossing at the Whitehall Russell Town Avenue Allotment learn about wild foods, folklore and the Road end of Russell Town Avenue. The The fantastic Mr Foster returns with medicinal values of herbs and weeds. Allotment is on your right through a another freebie workshop at RTACA green metal gate and a wooden gate. Springtime Forage Encouraging the ‘right’ kind of wildlife 10am–2pm 10 April onto your allotment or into your garden St Werburghs, Bristol · £35 pp Get Seedy! Get Saving! requires creating suitable habitats. Find Discover the food available long before Report from the Seed Saving out how to create spaces for wildlife so your garden/allotment is more diverse and the vegetable garden starts producing. Workshop more productive! Learn to make detoxing drinks, pick In September, RTACA hosted a seed saving nettles without gloves, get a bag full A pond will provide a watering hole for workshop, led by Tim Foster. of wild salad leaves and learn much a range of beneficial wildlife, while also more about wild foods, folklore and the Until recently, every gardener in the world boosting the local frog population, some medicinal values of herbs and weeds. saved their own seed. Every gardener of the best slug predators there are! was a plant breeder saving the seed of We’ll be constructing a small pond at the Evening Wild food stroll the plants that did the best for them and workshop… come and join in. 7–9pm 13 May · Bath · £15 pp which they liked most. This has worked Bring a large plastic pot if you have one as very well for the past 11,000 years but in Absorb the past as you stroll along with you will also have the chance to take away the past 40 years most adaptable local your guide Andy Hamilton discovering wild a young native tree. strains have been lost as most gardeners food that the Romans would have eaten. have forgotten how to save their own This course is a great taster if you feel that wild food is just one of those things that seed. We now mainly buy hybrids, where Volunteer sessions seeds are identical – with no adaptability you would like to know more about. for different soils or for changes in climate Anyone interested in coming and having Evening Wild food Stroll over time. The workshop showed how to a look at the award winning site and save money, save the planet and save meeting regular allotment goers is 7–9pm 20 May · Ashton Court, Bristol · seeds! welcome. £15 pp For further details call Nic Ferris We mainly meet on Saturday mornings Want to learn more about wild food? on 07859069486 or email (11am–1pm) so do pop in. Not sure where to start? This very gentle introduction will help you become more [email protected] If you are coming far it would be better acquainted with the food that grows to email first to double check someone around you. It promises to be a great will be there. There is shelter on site but evening out as we wander around the very Chuck chuck chucks! please wear good footwear and bring picturesque Ashton Court Estate. Interested in getting Chickens? Fancy waterproofs cheap, fresh eggs? Come and learn how To book. call 0117 9540788 during office For more information email to care for chickens at RTA community hours (not weekends) or email Andy [email protected] Allotment… We have 5 friendly chickens Hamilton [email protected] or visit http://sites.google.com/site/ happily laying. rtacommunityallotment/ www.Selfsufficientish.com

7 bristol’s local food update · january–february 2010 Events Food co-ops boom Seed swap Local food-buying cooperatives, or food co-ops, are becoming more popular as 11am–4pm Saturday 13 February people opt out of supermarket shopping Windmill Hill City farm in favour of more affordable alternatives to For more information, contact buying fresh produce. The main principle [email protected] behind community food co-ops is that by ordering food in bulk direct from www.myspace.com/bristolseedswap suppliers, groups of people can buy their fresh, locally grown food cheaper. These Love Food Festivals food cooperatives usually take the shape of buying clubs, market stalls or retail The aim of the festival is to get outlets and are predominately worker or Bristolians out into the countryside customer owned businesses. learning about how and where our There’s nothing new about the concept. food should come from, how to grow The 1970s saw a boom in food co-ops due Food co-ops are often faced with many and cook their own food and generally to the growing health foods movement challenges such as rent, equipment, try to spark an interest in the topic and concerns about poor quality insurance, and product wastage. through various mediums. processed foods. In recent years many This is where the toolkit comes in handy, providing guidance, tips, and 10.30am–4.00pm 14 February community-based food co-ops have also documents relating to developing a needs Valentines Day been set up to make it easier for people on assessment, equipment needed, funding, Paintworks, Bath Road, Bristol low incomes, or those living in areas with few shops, to access more affordable fruit sourcing produce, facilities, and permits. 27–28 March, Love Food South West, and vegetables. Sustain also now has regional advisers to The Passenger Shed, Bristol Temple help new and existing food co-ops. If you Meads Station are interested in accessing free advice and www.lovefoodfestival.com Sustain Food Co-ops Toolkit support on setting up a food co-op in the Until recently there weren’t many practical Bristol area please contact Alison Belshaw resources available for those considering [email protected] Avon Organic Group starting a food co-op or being a part of one. New Food Coop for BS3 Wassail Sustain: the alliance for better food and farming, has produced a Food Co-ops Interested in buying good food & 2–4pm Saturday 16 January 2010 Toolkit as part of the Making Local Food saving money? Order in bulk as Horfield Organic Community Orchard Work programme (a five-year lottery a group, collect orders from the shop. Then join the new food co-op, Singing, Morris dancing etc. funded project). This is available on line launched in BS3 in late October 2009. at: www.sustainweb.org/foodcoops www.avonorganicgroup.org.uk/ “The Space”, The Old Post Office, docs/Horfield%20Organic%20 ‘The aim is to make it easier for more local 109 Chessel Street, BS3 3DQ Community%20Orchard.pdf communities to set up their own food co-ops by providing guidance and useful Tel: 07790 759748 documents,’ said Maresa Bossano, the http://bristolgreenstore.co.uk/the- Meetings Food Co-ops project officer. space/food-group/ Horfield Friends Meeting House, 300 Gloucester Road, Horfield Avon Organic Group (AOG) Meetings take place on the first Tuesday of each month from September–December and February–May. Meetings are open to all (entrance charge). All welcome – do come along!

7.30pm Tuesday 2 February 2010 Seed Swap and Gardeners’ Question Time 7.30pm Tuesday 2 March 2010 Jon Lucas: Cultivating Legumes www.avonorganicgroup.org.uk/ events.htm

8 bristol’s local food update · january–february 2010 Sustainable Redland Funding phone number on the gate and we’ll let Metford Road Community BT Community Connections Orchard you in. Everyone welcome, bring some food or drink to share. Do you know a community or The members of MRCO are a diverse charitable organisation that is looking www.sustainableredland.org.uk/what- but committed band of people who for IT equipment and wants to get can-i-do/metford-road-community- share a love of nature, community, online? Almost any organisation, orchard/ and good wholesome food. The site is working in any field of community steep and still partly overgrown after benefit, located anywhere within the a lull in membership a few years back. View from the Farmers’ Market UK can apply for a laptop and a year’s But, thanks largely to the efforts of our free broadband connection. Online longest-serving member Joe, who made At Whiteladies Farmers’ Market an applications need to be received by the orchard known to Sustainable Redland important part of the planning is getting 7 January 2010. in 2007, membership is now strong and an extra layer of weatherproofing still growing. clothing ready so that Producers can Schools can apply at the Cluster Award make it to the Farmers Market despite level where up to five groups can apply We meet every third Sunday (possibly the worst the weather can do. together for work that encourages fortnightly August–October next year). networking. If successful, all member We have lots of plans at various stages of The farmers and growers are used to the groups will receive additional IT fruition (please excuse the pun). We would bad weather as they do their everyday equipment for use within their local like to have a bee hive on the orchard outside chores which could include the communities. Applications are not and hope to forge links with a specialist extra task of thawing frozen water supplies accepted from companies that exist group such as The Bristol Beekeepers or getting soaked while harvesting crops. to trade for profit, Social Enterprises Association with the idea of hosting a Interestingly at Chipping Sodbury we held or Community Interest Companies, or hive for them. We are starting work on an some Markets in the Town Hall but most organisations that promote political aromatic healing garden which will be of the Producers voted to be outdoors all parties. enclosed by espaliered fruit, and include year round. That does explain why you a seat and a large key-hole bed containing For more information: 0845 257 6792 might find them wrapped up in a strange www.btcommunityconnections.com various useful and therapeutic herbs. assortment of clothes – but they do keep We also plan to have a chutney garden for them warm. growing all the elements of good chutney They are particularly heartened by Win £1,100 in the 2010 in addition to the apples and plums we those shoppers that support the Market Miss Millie’s (Fried Chicken) already have! If we have a glut of any whatever the weather. After all the best Good Neighbour Awards fruit next year, we hope to work with local way to appreciate getting back into the Any Bristol-based voluntary scheme shops and Transition initiatives to sell it – warm and dry is if you have been out in which assists its local community is perhaps with a stall at Whiteladies Road the weather shopping. It almost takes you eligible to enter and the scheme may Farmers Market or Sustainable Westbury- back to being a hunter gatherer! on-Trym (SusWOT) Local Food Market. be for a new or existing project. We may even host a plum-picking party. Jim Wilkie, Market Manager at Whiteladies 1st prize: £750 · 2nd prize: £350 Farmers’ Market Last year some of the members worked www.sustainableredland.org.uk/home/ It’s easy to enter and a panel of very hard to level and improve the farmers-market independent judges decide the incredibly heavy soil in a poly-tunnel winners. A wide range of community frame. We are hoping to cover the frame groups, charities and other local before next winter so that we can grow Developments at the Story groups have won cash in the past 20 some slightly less hardy varieties too. Community Farm years – and so could yours! All in all, we are really excited by what 2010 Sustainable Redland have been working Closing date: 28 February 2010 has to offer and we are kick-starting the with the Story Farm to develop a year with a wassail to encourage our lovely Call 07801 649045 and ask for an entry Community Supported Agriculture project. trees to bear another bountiful harvest. form, or go to www.missmillies.co.uk We have some really exciting plans for the [email protected] Karen Shergold farm next year and have been working really hard this year trying to get things right. A guide to funding for CSAs Orchard Twelfth Night Party We need members to support this local www.soilassociation.org/ 2–4pm Sunday 17 January 2010 food initiative. Launch planned for June Takeaction/Getinvolvedlocally/ Metford Road Community Orchard 2010 but you can buy weekly veg boxes Communitysupportedagriculture/ right now! What an exciting opportunity Come and join us (weather permitting) Fundingopportunities/tabid/226/ for people to feel part of a farming for a wassail celebration, with hot cider Default.aspx community, to learn, work and play. Come and maybe some music at the orchard on get involved, get your weekly vegetable 17 January (which apparently was twelfth box delivered and then tell everyone else night in ancient times). Just come to the about it. allotments gate on Metford Road, at 2pm, Luke Hasell or if you come later then ring the mobile www.thecommunityfarm.co.uk

9 bristol’s local food update · january–february 2010 GROFUN news GardenShare Always dreamed of growing your own After 3 years and much hard work our As Garden Share was only founded in delicious food at home or getting Many Hands Project is now being the summer of 2009, the prospect of involved in a shared allotment? replicated elsewhere, most visibly, having a full year ahead during which Birmingham’s new GROFUN which is being we hope to see real growth in the GROFUN (Growing real organic food in headed up and organised by Gardeners scheme is very exciting. urban neighbourhoods) are pleased to World’s own Alys Fowler. announce that our site is now double the The idea behind GardenShare size, having recently been given another As for us, we’ve recently been given a is several-fold. Firstly, and most plot conveniently placed next to our polytunnel and a fruit cage to raise our importantly there is the recognition existing one. With a couple of apple and own vegetable seedlings in, and from that not everyone who has a garden is plum trees, plus the inevitable brambles February onwards, the seeds will be sown able to garden it while a good number and teasels, a fit team will be needed to and plants raised until big enough to of people without gardens would transport organic matter in January and provide our participants with plugs for dearly like the opportunity to grow from February onwards, when the plot final planting. An instant veg patch saves something, in particular vegetables. opens to volunteers every weekend. you a lot of hard work! Bringing these two groups together not only solves a problem for both By contributing 8 hours of your time We look forward to seeing you for another sides but also has the potential to towards the community project you year transforming Bristol’s gardens in strengthen the community the two can access free learning (including our 2010. Hope you all have a great festive sides come from, as people get to practical ‘skill-shops’), great outdoor season. know those in the neighbourhood. socials/exercise and a share of our tasty Get in touch if you have any ideas or Secondly, this initiative feeds into fresh vegetables/herbs/fruit. As always queries: [email protected] the transition movement, which for those who do participate you will or join our yahoo mailing list here: promotes more sustainable living and receive the benefit of our team giving your http://groups.yahoo.com/group/GROFUN/ greater local self-reliance not only in garden a makeover, in one of GROFUN’s recognition that our high-use carbon fantastically fun Action Days. www.grofun.org.uk life-styles can’t continue indefinitely as natural resources are finite, but also because communities are able to better ride out global economic lows if they are more self-reliant. Home grown vegetables are fresher and cheaper than those bought in supermarkets as they don’t have to be transported either before or after purchase. So going into 2010, we are looking forward to this movement growing across Bristol. At the moment we have more garden owners in the south of the city and more potential gardeners Bristol’s ‘virtual orchard’ in the north. To make the scheme Eastside Roots is on a mission… to practical demonstrations it couldn’t be really successful we need the matches encourage everyone in Bristol to grow easier. Why not treat someone to a life as geographically close as close as a fruit tree in their garden, allotment, long Christmas present! possible. So we hope that as the school or community space. They aim scheme gets better known and as the Eastside Roots are taking orders now for to improve access to fresh fruit, reduce benefits to both side become apparent deliveries in late January 2010. Trees are food miles, increase biodiversity and we’ll have a real movement of people £15 and all profits go to Eastside Roots turn Bristol into a ‘virtual orchard.’ coming together to make good use of Community Garden Centre and support Bristol’s gardens and enjoy the fruits Earlier this year saw the launch of this its ongoing work. The closing date for and vegetables of this joint enterprise. campaign with several hundred fruit orders is 18 January 2010 and trees will Bristol trees being distributed to local residents be available for collection from Eastside For more information: who have joined the scheme. Eastside Roots, Stapleton Rd Train Station, Easton http://gardensharebristol.blogspot. Roots continue this initiative in the hope on Friday 29 or Saturday 30 January com/ that hundreds more trees will be planted (11am–3pm) across the city and more people can Visit the website for easy and secure enjoy the benefits of growing their own. online ordering. Growing an apple, pear, plum or cherry www.eastsideroots.org.uk/ tree is easy, requires very little work and fruittreeorder09 yields delicious home-grown fruit year Or visit Eastside Roots personally to after year. Each tree requires surprisingly place your order. little space and with our trained staff (Tues, Fri, Sat 11am–4pm) to give advice on planting as well as

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800,000 school pupils in England to Resources ‘grow their own’ by 2011 City Harvest – Sustain’s new New ‘Simply Legal’ Guide and digest: Over 806,000 youngsters are urban agriculture website Telephone Helpline Launched set to learn vital lessons about food Sustain are developing a new section of A new guide to help community through ‘growing their own’ thanks to their website to provide evidence for the enterprises with all they need to know ‘The Food Growing Manual’, produced wide range of benefits associated with about legal forms and organisational types for schools by Garden Organic, working growing food in cities. There are already has been launched. with the Food for Life Partnership. a lot of inspirational projects on the site, ‘Simply Legal’ is part of a comprehensive www.gardenorganic.org.uk/news/ including edible roof gardens, a report on package of support and advice which is news_topic.php?id=541&dm_ urban food growing projects in the US and provided to new and emerging community i=4UO,29QU,JCI86,7G9K,1 links to London’s Capital Growth project. food enterprises across England by Co- More information will follow but, in the operativesUK through the Making Local Dr Rowan Williams: ‘Dig for victory meantime visit: over climate change and grow your Food Work programme. Alongside the own food’ www.sustainweb.org/ guide, a new telephone helpline has urbanagriculture/?dm_ also been launched. Any community digest: The Archbishop of Canterbury i=8UC,2IC1,13R0UQ,7Y24,1 food enterprises looking for legal and has called for ‘unsustainable’ governance advice and support are air-freighted food to be replaced therefore being encouraged to call the gradually by homegrown produce from ‘Growing schools’ resources ‘Simply Legal’ telephone number on 0161 thousands of new allotments. Growing Schools aims to give all children 246 2907, to speak to a qualified member www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/ the opportunity to connect with the living of staff about these issues. science/earth-environment/ environment, whether it is an inner city article6872027.ece?dm_ Email [email protected] window box or a vast country estate, a i=8UC,2IC1,13R0UQ,7Y1R,1 for a copy of the 2nd edition of the ‘Simply school veg plot or a natural woodland. Legal’ or download it at: Their website has been designed to Allotments, parks and urban farms support teachers in using the ‘outdoor www.cooperatives-uk.coop/live/ are rising above Britain’s gleaming classroom’ as a resource across the images/cme_resources/Public/ towers curriculum for pupils of all ages, and now MakingLocalFoodWork/SimplyLegal.pdf digest: Parks, allotments and markets incorporates a couple of new features: are set to spring up across Britain on the sites of building projects that have To promote a school event, or find out Office-based buying groups what’s going on in your area: been mothballed in the recession. Why not set up a buying group for your http://entertainment.timesonline. www.growingschools.org.uk/Events office? Instead of dragging yourself co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/ round the supermarket at the end of a Training for Growing Schools and the visual_arts/architecture_and_ long working day, arrange for your local RHS is being promoted and administered design/article6896197.ece?dm_ producers to bring their farm produce to together. So whether you want to grow i=8UC,2IC1,13R0UQ,7Y1Q,1 your office. The Soil Association can help fruit and veg, encourage wildlife, keep you find local farmers, recruit members, animals at school or find out how Food for Life Partnership plants 400 and set up an administration system to gardening can support the new primary fruit trees in England keep things nice and simple. Contact your curriculum there’s a training course to regional development co-ordinator for digest: Food for Life Partnership help at: schools in England will soon be more info. enjoying homegrown apples thanks www.growingschools.org.uk/Training www.soilassociation.org/ to an initiative to get schools planting Takeaction/Getinvolvedlocally/ their own fruit trees. Courses in the West Country include: Communitysupportedagriculture/ www.gardenorganic.org.uk/news/ Encouraging Creativity in your School Contacts/tabid/375/Default.aspx news_topic.php?id=552&dm_ Garden i=4UO,2MGV,JCI86,8B3Z,1 26 May 2010 Paddington Farm Trust Ltd, Maidencroft Making Local Food Work Hundreds of activists to demonstrate Farm, Maidencroft Lane, Wick , Conference 2009: Community to ‘change the food system, not the Glastonbury, Somerset BA6 8JN Enterprise and the Future of climate’ A day of ideas to inspire a creative Food digest: Hundreds of activists approach to gardening, bringing colour, 250 people came together on protested at the inclusion of farmland texture, and charm to your school garden, 30 September in Bristol at this sell out into carbon trading schemes, as and making horticulture fun. discussed by the UN Framework event to discuss the role of community Convention on Climate Change 01483 212 382 · [email protected] enterprise in the future of food. 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11 bristol’s local food update · november–december 2009 Publications Soil Carbon and organic Fair Miles: Recharting the food Defra Sustainable Action Plan farming: A review of the miles map Defra’s third Sustainable Development evidence of agriculture’s Kelly Rai Chi, James MacGregor and Action Plan, sets out what it will be potential to combat climate Richard King doing over the next 18 months. Priorities include how to sustainably increase change Western consumer concern over climate global agricultural production, making the New research from the Soil Association change can do more harm than good Olympics greener and ensuring maximum reveals that if all UK farmland was if it cuts demand for food produced in benefit to society now and in future, and converted to organic farming, at least 3.2 developing nations, warns a new book by developing Defra’s first Departmental million tonnes of carbon would be taken Oxfam and the International Institute for climate change plan to reduce emissions up by the soil each year – the equivalent Environment and Development (IIED). and adapt to climate impacts. of taking nearly 1 million cars off the road. The authors say locally produced food www.defra.gov.uk/sustainable/defra/ www.soilassociation.org/Whyorganic/ can actually cause greater emissions of action-plan.htm Climatefriendlyfoodandfarming/ greenhouse gases, and that consumers Soilcarbon/tabid/574/Default.aspx can harm the livelihoods of poor farmers in developing nations if they stop buying Community Food Enterprises: their produce. Local success in a global Food Futures: Strategies for www.iied.org/pubs/display. marketplace resilient food and farming php?o=15516IIED The local food movement is now spreading Our current food systems are precarious globally, yet is not well understood. To and vulnerable to external ‘shocks’. Comparative merits of many, local food is exclusively about A combination of one or more external proximity, with discriminating consumers factors, such as extreme weather consuming vegetables demanding higher-quality food grown, conditions, global conflict or trade produced locally and overseas: caught, processed, cooked, and sold disputes could easily disrupt the Fair and evidence-based by people they know and trust. But an continuity of food supplies unless we carbon labelling equally important part of local food is make fundamental changes to the way local ownership of food businesses. we farm, process, distribute and eat our Does carbon labelling give developing This report is about the full range of food over the next 20 years. This Soil countries a bad deal? At least 16 different locally owned businesses involved in Association report outlines a blueprint for methodologies for calculating the carbon food, whether they are small or big, a more sustainable approach to food and footprint of food products have been whether they are primary producers or farming. developed since 2007, but as yet there manufacturers or retailers, whether their is no international agreement on the www.soilassociation.org/Whyorganic/ focus is local or global markets. single best method. Schemes do not take Climatefriendlyfoodandfarming/ into account wider environmental and www.communityfoodenterprise.org/ Foodfutures/tabid/565/Default.aspx social issues and so are not necessarily download-the-book indicators of overall sustainability; if The food we waste consumers in developed economies respond by avoiding products from GRAIN downloads WRAP has produced an update on its developing countries this may lead to GRAIN is a small international non-profit 2008 report. This new one also takes into unintended consequences. organisation that works to support small account the food we pour or throw down farmers and social movements in their www.relu.ac.uk/news/policy%20 the sink. It finds that we waste 8.3bn struggles for community-controlled and and%20practice%20notes/Edwards- tonnes of food, the avoidable fraction biodiversity-based food systems. Topics Jones.pdf of the food and drink waste would cost for their research, include: people in the UK a total of £12 billion per year, an average of £480 per household Earth matters – Tackling the climate per year. The greenhouse gas emissions Setting the Table: Advice crisis from the ground up to Government on priority associated with avoidable food and drink The international food system and the waste is the equivalent of approximately elements of sustainable diets climate crisis 20 million tonnes of carbon dioxide per A new report by the Sustainable year. This, it says, is roughly 2.4% of Corporate investors lead the rush for Development Commission finds that greenhouse gas emissions associated control over overseas farmland eliminating waste, cutting fatty and with all consumption in the UK. sugary foods and reducing meat and dairy Download their articles and reports at: www.wrap.org.uk/retail/case_studies_ consumption would make the biggest www.grain.org/front research/report_the_food_we.html contribution towards improving health and reducing the environmental impacts of the food system.

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12 bristol’s local food update · january–february 2010 Regular things Eastside Roots volunteer days Metford Road Community Royate Hill Community Orchard Stapleton Road Train Station Orchard Day Regular monthly workdays 10.30am–4.30pm Wednesdays & Fridays Usually third Sunday of the month 1st & 3rd Saturdays of the month 11am–4pm (drop by anytime, but cleaning Trinity Community Arts Centre garden Next workday: 11am–5pm 22 November up starts around 3pm) 12 noon–5pm every Thursday If you are not a member but just fancy As well as the fruit trees, we also plant Improve your local community, meet new volunteering as a one-off then do please vegetables, and whoever shows up for friends, learn new skills and keep fit. get in touch – or come along to see what’s workdays when there is a harvest, gets to Phone Nick Ward on 07810 806 354 or involved. Meet at Metford Road Gates take food home. Drinks available, bring email [email protected] (green metal gate in between numbers 37 and 39) at about 11.30am, bring gardening snacks to share. Tools and gardening www.eastsideroots.org.uk gloves. There should be a notice on the gloves provided. There is also a compost gate telling you a mobile number to ring toilet at the orchard. Everybody welcome, GROFUN Action Weekends if we’re already there, and we’ll come regardless of experience. and let you in. If there’s no notice, and Vale Allotments, St Werburghs For more information: nobody there – you’re the first, be patient! Every week, from noon Saturdays & www.kebelecoop.org/?page_id=28 If you’ve never been before then you can Sundays ring Joe on 07840 059079 to tell us you’re Map at: www.bristol.gov.uk/ccm/ Ashley Vale Allotments are just behind The coming. content/Environment-Planning/Parks- Farm pub, Hopetoun Road, St Werburghs. and-open-spaces/allotments/allotment- www.sustainableredland.org.uk/what- Drag on your wellies and come and give an viewer.en?XSL=search&MapId=24&Sear can-i-do/metford-road-community- hour or two. Refreshments provided. chText=Royate%20Hill&SearchId=3 orchard/ Phone Nadia 0797 3847894 for more info.

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