This week is Community Garden Week which obviously is close to our hearts. Gardens supported and run by communities, whether for food, for pollinators or to improve an area are really vital for neighbourhoods to feel that they are empowered to find their solutions to the global issues of the day. Community gardening is often […]
Author Archive | Sara Venn
Success with Seeds-an online opportunity!!
Every season gardeners and growers tell us they have failed to grow crops and flowers from seed, so we have created this opportunity for people to come along and to learn from our founder and lead, Sara Venn, about failsafe methods of growing productive plants from seed. Whether you need increased confidence, help at certain […]
Join our Incredible Flower Club and get beautiful blooms all summer long.
Recently we have turned our thoughts more and more towards what sustainability means. Whilst we will always be reliant on funding to some degree, what we know is that as funding is harder and harder to get, we need to focus on creating sustainable funding streams based on what we know we can do well. […]
Food Justice, seed and food sovereignty in Bristol and beyond.
Our founder, Sara, recently gave this talk both to the Bristol Seed Swap and at the Kew Lectures. It covers food justice and movements in the US that inspired and continue to inspire Edible Bristol. TwitterFacebookemail
Community Engagement Opportunity with EdibleBristol
We are beginning a project that will include us reinvigorating the Bearpit Garden and have secured funds for a short-term project to look at inclusion in the garden and barriers to inclusion. The job description is below along with details of how to apply. We look forward to hearing from you! MK-draft_Communities-consultation-JOB-DESCRIPTIONDownload TwitterFacebookemail
Our How To Grow course is open!!
Our online course is now open for sign ups once again. The course will begin on April 6th. This course will be six weeks, with an expectation of 3-4 hours of work per week, which will include a webinar, an online Q&A session along with written materials and resources to give a basic, but thorough, […]
2020 Report and Plans Moving into 2021
A slightly dry title but as we move into 2021, we are looking back to the previous year and it’s challenges to ensure we can foresee any challenges to come. 2020 began, as years generally do, with positive plans, many of which had to be cancelled or postponed due to Covid. However, as the year […]
An ask for help
If you read our previous post you will know that we lost our poly tunnel to Storm Ellen and that we were preparing to launch a crowdfunder Today is the day we launch our campaign. We are asking for £5000, to replace the tunnel, to build it properly so it is secure on our windy […]
Disaster at the allotments
Recently we have had something of a disaster but we wanted to share it with you, not for pity, but to show that things go wrong and what’s important is how we pick ourselves up and move forwards. August and September have been challenging and not least down to, for growers and farmers, the weather. […]
National Allotment Week
It’s National Allotment Week and in Bristol we are fortunate to have a great wealth of allotment land and fairly short waiting lists unless you desperately want a particular site, but as an organisation supporting community growing, and especially empowering people through that we wanted to look at the effects of allotments on and in […]
