Beekeeping Workshop

We're getting busy with the bees on Saturday 6th July!
This free event provides everything you ever wanted to know about beekeeping through a hands-on workshop.  Find out the essentials of bee care using tried and tested organic best practice.

We would appreciate you letting us know you're attending by emailing feedbristol@avonwildlifetrust.org.uk so we can confirm numbers. 

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Roundhouse

Up she rises! Shift Bristol are cracking on with building the roundhouse. The chestnut has come from a local nature reserve that needed thinning. the next stage is putting up the straw bale walls which will be clay/cob plastered with a lime wash finish. They sit on a ring of recycled tires which have compacted recycled road scalpings in them. The roof will be a made of turf with wild meadow seed sown in.  England has lost 97% of wildflower meadows since world war 2.

The roundhouse will be part of our bigger wild flower butterfly meadow. Avon Wildlife Trust is committed to conserving and enhancing these meadows as hundreds of species of insect rely on specific set of wild flowers.

This Saturday (22nd June) we are once again open 11am-4pm for people to explore the site, find out about who we are and get involved in the digging!  Scott will be running a workshop/workday on a Forest Garden, so if you'd like to find out more come and get your hands dirty this Saturday!

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New wildlife pond

Thanks to the help of the prince's trust who completed a two week community project we completed our wildlife pond and got the rescue tadpoles in just in time.

Round house begins!

We have finally started building our round house. This will be a fantastic new asset to the site demonstrating sustainable building techniques and creating great habitats for local wildlife. the walls will be made from chestnut poles, with straw bale and cob wood walls, on top we will have a wild flower meadow as the roof. Come and check it out at the Get Growing trail on the 8th and 9th of June.

George Ferguson visit to Feed Bristol

Had an absolutely stonking day of success showing George Ferguson and his team around feed Bristol today. George is the independent candidate that got voted in by the people of Bristol. He is a huge supporter of local food initiatives so it was great to finally get him to the project to show him what amazing things have been happening here.

We had a really busy day with a group in from Chandos House drugs rehab, a youth group from Princes Trust finishing their wildlife pond challenge, people in from milestone who support learning difficulties, the local community came along from all ages from prams to walking sticks, the Blue Finger Alliance were in to offer George a pot of valuable grade 1 agricultural soil that we grow our veg on.
It was a blazing day showing off the project to it full glory. See the post before this for the next event on 8^th June – the get growing trail. And come see for yourself what we are so happy about showing everyone today.