3 years ago our founder, Sara Venn, was invited to a meeting with owners of Bearpit Social and then members of the Bearpit Improvement Group, to discuss the possibility of Incredible Edible Bristol designing and supporting the planting aspect of the work that was ongoing in the Bearpit. At that time there was still lots […]
Incredible Edible and Me It’s been almost a year since I met Sara Venn and the amazing folks at Incredible Edible Bristol and it’s one of the best things to have happened to me over the past few years. At the time of meeting I’d had a pretty rough couple of months. I’d lost my […]
Three years ago today Sara Venn tweeted……. Serious question #Bristol. Why have we no Incredible Edible Bristol and would anyone be interested if I tried to set something going? Ps RT And the rest, as they say, is history!! So what have we achieved in 3 years? Well we have supported 37 gardens to flourish, […]
Our volunteer and collaborator Fred Barker has written a piece on the empowerment getting involved with Incredible Edible Bristol can inspire. What to do in these troubled political times? How to make a difference? Well don’t just leave it to the politicians! Of course they have a role, but so do we all. More than […]
Incredible Edible Bristol has always been a political movement, one that wants to fight for food sovereignty, for food security and for resilient people and communities both in our beautiful city of Bristol and in the wider Incredible Edible community. We want to see prosperity redefined and health and happiness seen as at least as […]
The Millennium Square Urban Allotments are a really exciting project to be involved in and one that we here at Incredible Edible Bristol are extremely proud of. The project is one that is collaborative in that we are working with At Bristol, who own the land and who created the idea and Almondsbury Garden Centre […]
As part of our Urban Growing Trail project we are holding an exhibition in the Control Room on Redcliffe Bridge from 6th -13th October. The exhibitions aims are to highlight Bristol’s amazing growing community as well as celebrating the harvest that is coming from community gardens, local producers and farms that are in and around […]
We are often asked about harvesting the crops in the beds and steadily over the course of this year we have seen more and more that people are beginning to use the beds, and often posting photos to our social media pages to show us what they have made with the produce. In fact this […]
As you all know we are working very hard on our Urban Growing Trail for 2015, in collaboration with Grow Bristol and Bee the Change. The trail is starting to be very visible with the addition last weekend of a beautiful fruit garden outside St Mary Redcliffe Church and there is exciting news to come […]
At the beginning of the year Gus Hoyt, Ashley Green Councillor and foodie, introduced us to Heather Cullimore of the Severnside Community Rail Partnership, who, amongst other things, work on the railway that runs from Temple Meads to Severn Beach. We quickly decided we wanted to bring food to the Severn Beach line in the […]
The Bearpit Continues……We Hope
Avonmouth GardenAlong………
We’re a Beacon Group!!
Dove Street Planting Day
Food & Film Night – FED UP
Castle Park Bed Preparation
Hen & Chicken Mural Painting
