Come along and help us look after the gardens in and around Stokes Croft. We’ll be concentrating on the garden on Spring Hill during this work party, half way up Spring Hill from King Square.
Come along and lend a hand, have a chat and have a cuppa with us!!
This work party will focus on the Garden at Spring Hill, Jackie’s Garden, some of which is being looked after by some residents but which needs some Incredible Edible TLC.
The garden is half way up the hill to Kingstown from Kings Square on your left and is a beautiful and quiet retreat from the bustle of Stokes Croft. why not pop along and see what we are up to!
Meet us in the Central Reservation of Stokes Croft and give us a helping hand to do some maintenance and planting of 2 of the gardens in and around Stokes Croft.
Everyone is welcome!!
Meet us in The Bearpit and help us to plant alliums around the Bearpit and Stokes Croft gardens…
We think all areas look better filled with beautiful colour and so we are looking at a range of colourful plants to put in the area that will mirror the colourful garden in the Bearpit. Why not come along and help us?
We love our gardens on Stokes Croft and they have led to some extraordinary things!!
In this session we’ll weed and sow the central reservation in Stokes Croft as well as do some maintenance on our Marlborough Hill Street Garden!! Why not pop along and join in the fun?
Today we went on a little walk around the gardens in Stokes Croft, including the gardens at Marlborough Hill Street and Spring Hill.
Both gardens looked amazing. The trees are thriving on Marlborough Hill Street as are the artichokes and all the wonderful herbs that have been planted there and we really look forward to maintaining and adding to that garden this year. It’s a fun garden on a completely lost piece of ground and it’s exciting to see it start to have a life of it’s own, expand and start to provide Fruit and herbs for the community in which is sits.
Then we doodled up the hill to Spring Hill, another garden that has changed a lot since we first started to work on it, and which is now looked after by the community who have done a grand job of changing the space into one that is both productive and beautiful. This is another space that when we started to do some work there, took a lot of cleaning and tidying. There were cans, needles and nappies galore as well as some very sick looking plants! Strawberries and raspberries are now thriving where one there were just weeds and the beds which were also full of weeds and sick shrubs are being used for soft fruit and vegetables such as onions, garlic and broad beans.
It’s an absolute joy to be in and can only get better.If you would like to get involved in either of these gardens, or any of the other 27 gardens across the city, please do get in touch with us at info@ediblebristolorguk.wpcomstaging.com and we will let you know when work parties are planned for!! After all, if you eat, you’re in!!
Today we went on a little walk around the gardens in Stokes Croft, including the gardens at Marlborough Hill Street and Spring Hill.
Both gardens looked amazing. The trees are thriving on Marlborough Hill Street as are the artichokes and all the wonderful herbs that have been planted there and we really look forward to maintaining and adding to that garden this year. It’s a fun garden on a completely lost piece of ground and it’s exciting to see it start to have a life of it’s own, expand and start to provide Fruit and herbs for the community in which is sits.
Then we doodled up the hill to Spring Hill, another garden that has changed a lot since we first started to work on it, and which is now looked after by the community who have done a grand job of changing the space into one that is both productive and beautiful. This is another space that when we started to do some work there, took a lot of cleaning and tidying. There were cans, needles and nappies galore as well as some very sick looking plants! Strawberries and raspberries are now thriving where one there were just weeds and the beds which were also full of weeds and sick shrubs are being used for soft fruit and vegetables such as onions, garlic and broad beans. It’s an absolute joy to be in and can only get better.If you would like to get involved in either of these gardens, or any of the other 27 gardens across the city, please do get in touch with us at info@ediblebristolorguk.wpcomstaging.com and we will let you know when work parties are planned for!! After all, if you eat, you’re in!!
Meet by the bus stop opposite the Full Moon to help us to maintain the beds on and around Stokes Croft!! We will be clearing old plants away and encouraging reseeding by spreading the seeds they have produced along the way!
Do come along and say hello or join in for a while. To quote someone at the bus stop only the other day “what a difference seeing flowers makes when First buses are always bleedin’ late”.
Big thank you Sophie Prideaux at the Bristol Post for this feature, published 22nd April. The picture shows Sara and Anna at the new Dove Street Garden in Stokes Croft and the article mentions our Spacehive campaign.
Link to Bristol Post feature published April 22, 2014
Before.
Today we put spades into the ground in Kingsdown, in an area of large high rise flats that have huge tracts of land around them, much of which is ripe for growing food on.
After. Planted with fruit bushes, beans peas, sunflower, marigold and nastutiums!!
George Ferguson surveying the garden!
We collaborated on this with The People’s Republic of Stokes Croft, and picked a piece of ground that was unloved, had been covered in weeds and rubbish but was right next to the entrance to one of the blocks. We spoke with members of the community who, on the whole were really positive and welcomed what we were trying to do. The important message is this is not a group of people growing food for themselves, or trying to take ownership of anything. It is a group of people empowering communities to get growing by showing them what can be done, and the food is for everyone.
It was great that George Ferguson came along and was so supportive, but actually the really wonderful part of the day was that residents are excited about what is going on and have offered help and enthusiasm and a promise to keep things watered.