Introducing Matt

Matt Cracknell has joined us as the Project Worker for the Feed Bristol project. He has been working on the project for a couple of weeks and has been very busy getting his ideas for the land together, making plans for involving groups and communities in the project as well as putting in that all important seed order.

Matt has an incredible enthusiasm for the project and he can't wait to get people out on the land growing with him.

Community Payback team helps make land safe

A team of young people on the community payback scheme are helping us clear up the site this week. They are going over every inch of the site collecting metal, glass, wood and other debris so that we can make it safe for groups and especially children to come to the project to help grow food.

They have been working so fast that we are hoping they will be able to help us to clear one of the old greenhouses of rubbish this week too so we can begin sowing seeds and growing plants there in the next week or so.

We are separating all of the material we find so that it can be recycled and as little of it goes to landfill as possible.

Site buildings on their way

Work is well underway to build the facilities we need so that groups and schools can get involved in the project. The foundations for the site toilets, training room and community space were laid last week and our contractor has been busy starting to put the beginnings of the buildngs in place.

This has to be done very carefully so that we do not disturb the badger sett that is close to where the buildings are going up. We also have to be very careful to make sure that heavy machinery does not make the soil too compact and our contractors are following set out routes on the site.

We hope to have the site toilets in place very quickly which means that people will be able to begin to visit the plot and we can get growing there.