Events 2015

Wassail 7th Feb (12-3)

Free family fun event. Come and celebrate the new season with fun, colour and dance.

The Feed Bristol Mummer will be putting on a play to bless the trees and the new year.
Morris dancers, bands and hot refreshments from the cafe.

Come and explore the site and find out about our new volunteer and Grow Leader opportunities.

Can you spare a minute for the 'Feed Bristol Feedback Survey'?

Please fill in our 'Feed Bristol Feedback Survey'!

Avon Wildlife Trust's  Feed Bristol project would not have been such a huge success without all your support. We are asking all those who have participated what they have gained from the project and how they would like to see it evolve. This participation will be invaluable in developing future plans that will see Feed Bristol grow and evolve into a flourishing self-sustaining project that can continue to support Bristol and its many communities in wildlife conservation and sustainable food growing.

Please click on the link below:

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/X7TSPXJ

Many Thanks for your time...

Our lovely Stag created by Mike Hartley

Some beautiful photos of our stag created by the very talented Mike Hartley. Come along to our work weekend on the 5th April and have a look.
Mike will be with us running an activity on May 10th when we hold our Land and Food Forum event and he will also be running a willow sculpture course on 24th May. Mike is available for commissions, so if you'd like one of these quirky willow beasts in your green space, please get in touch.

Call for Volunteers

Things are starting to get busy here on the Feed Bristol site and we'll be looking for some new Spring time volunteers!

We would ideally like some new Friday (9.30am-4pm) and Saturday (12pm-4pm) Volunteers and Grow Leaders.

If you think you have some skills to share or some time to spare then come on down to the site on either of those days and let us know. We'll get you settled and explain all you need to know. It's a lovely environment and the weather is on the up, so it's a great reason to get outside and involve yourself in some rewarding community work.

We hope to meet some of you soon,
thanks!

Map and location details!

Since we are preparing for the new season and planning plenty of great events this year, we thought we would share this little map with you! Hopefully it gives you a decent idea of where the site is located and it gives details of the buses that stop right outside the Feed Bristol site.

Postcode - BS16 1HB

Edible Futures Nursery Course

Just a reminder that Edible Futures will be holding an excellent Nursery Course on the Feed Bristol site. It's a great, in depth course teaching you how to grow your own edible plants for exchange or sale. Spaces are limited so please see the event details for prices and booking.

Click here to see full details of this event on facebook.

Wildflowers

Here at Feed Bristol we like to focus on maintaining wildlife as well as growing great food and staying active outdoors. We know how important a healthy ecosystem is when it comes to maintaining our country’s healthy organic landscape, which is why we always look for wildlife friendly methods of growing. With recent reports on the declining numbers of bees and other pollinators, we have decided to focus a lot of this year’s work on pollinator plants and wildflowers.

Wildflowers are a great way to add vibrancy and colour to your garden whilst attracting pollinators and ultimately supporting a healthy ecosystem. Indigenous wildflowers not only benefit the environment and support our ecosystems; they also have some health benefits for us. A lot of wildflowers are edible and can be added to salads, teas, jams and various other recipes to give them a unique flavor. Wildflowers are often fairly nutritious as they are usually rich in nectar and pollen, which contain various vitamins and minerals such as iron and calcium. The flowers, buds and leaves of various garden and wildflowers are also rich in vitamins and minerals, making them a fun, quirky and fairly inexpensive way to give your body a health boost. 

Keep an eye on our Facebook page and Feed Bristol blog page for some unique ideas and recipes for wildflowers, as well as tips on how to grow and maintain a self-sustaining living landscape.

Eastside Roots Plant Sale

For all of you who live near by, Eastside Roots will be holding a plant sale on the 14th February, 12am - 4pm. It will be held at Eastside Roots, by Stapleton Road station. All plants on sale have been propagated in Bristol by the Edible Futures plant nursery. There will be a wide range of plants on offer from trees to shrubs and potted plants.


Plants on offer include:

• Apple Trees
• Currants
• Gooseberries
• Jostaberries
• Grapes
• Edible herbs
• Elaeagnus
• Umbelleta
• Elaeagnus x Ebbingei

Bare-root shrubs  £5 Bare-root trees £10

For more information please contact Humphrey on 0770281055 / humphreylloyd@hotmail.co.uk

Wild flowers and pollinators

Here at Feed Bristol we like to focus on maintaining wildlife as well as growing great food and staying active outdoors. We know how important a healthy ecosystem is when it comes to maintaining our country’s healthy organic landscape, which is why we always look for wildlife friendly methods of growing. With recent reports on the declining numbers of bees and other pollinators, we have decided to focus a lot of this year’s work on pollinator plants and wild flowers.

Wild flowers are a great way to add vibrancy and colour to your garden whilst attracting pollinators such as bees and beautiful butterflies and ultimately supporting a healthy ecosystem. British wild flowers not only benefit the environment and ecosystems; they also have some health benefits for us.  A lot of wild flowers are edible and can be added to salads, teas, jams and various other recipes to give them a unique flavour. Wild flowers are often fairly nutritious as they are usually rich in nectar and pollen, which contain various vitamins and minerals such as iron and calcium. The actual flowers, buds and leaves of various garden and wild flowers are also rich in vitamins and minerals, making them a fun, quirky and fairly inexpensive way to give your body a health boost.

Keep an eye on our Facebook page and feed Bristol blog page for some unique ideas and recipes for wild flowers as well as tips on how to grow and maintain a self sustaining living landscape.

Feed Bristol Job Recruitment

We are recruiting! Feed Bristol are looking for two fixed term, part time posts - Education Officer and Community Grower. If you or anyone you know might be interested, you can have a look at the job description and information on our website at:
www.avonwildlifetrust.org.uk/people/careers.htm

Edible Futures - Nursery Course

On the 15th & 16th of March, Edible futures will be holding a Nursery Course on site, please see the image above for more information. 

Prices vary, depending on income bracket and spaces are limited. 

Please contact Humphrey Lloyd to reserve a space or to clear up and queries you may have. 

Humphreylloyd@hotmail.co.uk

07702810555

www.ediblefutures.org

Curriculum-linked courses

Here is an information sheet on some of the curriculum-linked courses we have on offer. They're loads of fun, a great way to get some hands on learning and our courses have proven to be successful in the past.

If you would like some more information, feel free to send us an e-mail and we will get back to you as soon as possible. 

Volunteers

As you know, here at Feed Bristol a lot of our work depends on our excellent volunteers and we are always eager to grow our volunteer base and get others involved. If you would like to volunteer, we would be more than happy to hear from you, especially if you have some pre-existing skills! We are particularly interested in hearing from those of you with some outdoor skills or knowledge who would be up for helping out at our events or leading some classes or skills workshops.

You can contact us via our Facebook or email feedbristol@avonwildlifetrust.org.uk

New Year

We have been very busy here at Feed Bristol, organising in the new year and preparing for spring time!
We have recently updated our events calendar to keep you informed of all the great activities that will be going on in the new year and we hope you can come along and join in. We will also be updating our Facebook page regularly and will post all of our events up there too, feel free to share them and to invite your Facebook friends along, the more the merrier!

Land and Food Forum success!!

A massive thanks to everyone that took part in this hugely inspirational day. We had key speakers from policy campaigners and strategy thinkers to growers and diverse community projects. Over 350 turned out for a very sunny day. Through a series of facilitated workshops people were able to network and bring fresh ideas to solving the issue of creating a sustainable food system.

For Avon Wildlife Trust this is very important as the Urban Pollinators project is showing remarkable trends that show allotments to host a higher abundance of pollinator insects than a large range of other landscapes. This includes habitats in rural areas.  Avon Wildlife Trust is trying to find solution to link up the living landscape and this forum helped empower a range of active community projects.

Additionally on the day we pressed a huge quantity of apples from the site, enjoyed food fresh from the site cooked by the Market Kitchen and had kids getting involved in Pumpkin Mania.

Thanks again to all involved. Keep an eye out for next seasons events on the blog calender.

Land and Food Forum Event Oct 5th

Feed Bristol is hosting a Land Matters Forum. Come along and join the conversation. Lots of inspiring key speakers from different areas of food production, land rights, local food policy and food sovereignty. This is a day of inspiration targeted at those that are intend on developing a society that can support its own food needs.

Free event between 11-4

Hot food from the plot for lunch

Key speakers from:
Campaign for Rural England
Land Workers Alliance
Bristol Food Policy Council
Reclaim the Field
Food Land and Sustaination
Other project presenting ideas: Simms Hill, Feed Bristol, Edible Future

Kids activities as part of pumpkin mania
Plus apple pressing

If you want to be part of the day please send us an email. All cake donation gratefully received.

Wildlife & Harvest Festival

Welcome one and all to what is set to be an amazing Feed Bristol event!

We're bringing in the harvest to feast on the fruits of our labours; this is the time of year when we really do 'Feed Bristol'. We've got bags of stuff going on with fun nature activities for kids, wildlife workshops for adults and hands-on harvesting! 

There will be a veritable feast of vegetables of all shapes and sizes to enjoy as well as live music, beautiful craft stalls and as always a wonderful selection teas and cake.

We do hope you'll join us for one of the biggest events in the Feed Bristol calendar.
Please click the poster below for more info:

Storing and Preserving Workshop

We're gearing up to another wonderful open day at Feed Bristol, this time we're offering the chance to try your hand at pickling and preserving.

We have two chefs on hand so whether you've been doing this for years and want to compare methods or have never been quite sure where to start, come along to see a cooking demonstration, ask questions and taste some of the final result! 

Taking place on Saturday 3rd of August, 11am-4pm at Feed Bristol.
Click the poster below for more info:

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. 

Click the poster below for more info:

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.