Peat free growing will support the city in it’s fight against an ecological emergency and the wider picture by stopping the extraction of peat. TwitterFacebookemail
Response to the Declaration Of An Ecological Emergency in Bristol
Over the 6 years that Incredible Edible Bristol has been working, across the 50 sites we have supported there has always been conversation around growing food with nature and providing food for pollinators, birds and other creatures who are an important part of the city’s ecosystem. TwitterFacebookemail
Edible Fishponds Moves Forwards
As we move forwards, creating spaces for food with communities, we are very aware of creating food for all the communities in the city, and not just humans. Growing in an ecologically friendly way has never been so important, and especially in the parts of the city where there is huge competition for space. The […]
2019-An Incredible Year in Bristol
As we head into 2020 we thought it might be good to look back at our achievements in 2019 and look at plans coming in 2020. In many ways 2019 was a difficult year so before we go onto achievements we’d like to say a huge thank you to everyone across the city who helped […]
Ecology at the Secret Garden
My name is Ross and I’m an Incredible Edible Bristol volunteer and an Ecologist and I’ve been giving ecological support in the “Secret Garden” at Avonmouth. The aim being to make the space as wildlife friendly and as “buzzing” as possible with the ethos being that by looking out for our flying, crawling, buzzing friends […]
Going for Gold!!
In 2015 Bristol gained silver status as a Sustainable Food City, and decided recently to become one of the first 2 cities to try to achieve gold standard status. The work is focused on local procurement and food waste, but circling around those subjects are of course many others, and upscaling urban agriculture, supporting more […]
#Bristol’sUrbanHarvest
But what of those harvests? Who are they for? The answer to that is that they are there for everyone and everyone is welcome to help themselves to what they need, leaving plenty for everyone else by just taking what they will use. Twitter Facebook email
#Bristol’s Urban Harvest
We are excited to announce that there are the beginnings of some harvestable crops in our city centre project, supported by the City Centre Business Improvement District. In the beds at the Hippodrome, at Colston Hall and at the Bristol Royal Infirmary is red veined sorrel which can be chopped into salads as a leaf […]
Our City Centre Project……
We were thrilled last week that our exciting project, supported by the Bristol City Centre Business Improvement District, was launched as a part of the #GreenerBristol campaign. We have been planning and working on the raised beds for several months, working with a local carpenter and maker to design the beds especially for the city […]
The Secret Garden
Since 2015 we have worked with Severnside Community Rail Partnership to bring food growing to the Severn Beach Line, beginning with the Station Buffet project that included adding two containers that are also bike stands, to each station along the line. Following on from that work we have begun a new project with Severnside CRP […]
