Lush Greens Bristol

Lush Greens Bristol Lush Greens is a small, flourishing vegetable farm in South Bristol

Pop along to one of the farms open days - Everyone welcome but sign up in advance.
28/05/2025

Pop along to one of the farms open days - Everyone welcome but sign up in advance.

We’re delighted to be part of this year’s Community Events - @‌festofnature is the UK’s largest celebration of the nat...
26/05/2025

We’re delighted to be part of this year’s Community Events - @‌festofnature is the UK’s largest celebration of the natural world.

We’ll be at Lush Greens Bristol on Tuesday, June 10th, from 17:30-19:00 for a farm tour of Lush Greens community market garden.

Join us in learning about how we farm in harmony with the natural world this summer.

Visit the link in @‌festofnature's bio to find out more about it, book your tickets, and to see the full lineup!

https://www.bnhc.org.uk/festival-of-nature/event/farming-with-nature-with-lush-greens/

Lush Greens community farm is hosting two open days for people to visit the farm and have a say over how the farm develo...
22/05/2025

Lush Greens community farm is hosting two open days for people to visit the farm and have a say over how the farm develops in the coming years.

Tuesday 27th May 17:30-19:30

Saturday 31st May 11:00-13:00

We would love for you to join us.

See flyer for more details. Links to the event can be found in our bio.

If you can't attend but would like to contribute, fill the form in to share your views. A link can also be found for this in our bio.

Thanks 🌱

Faith, Henry and Freddie ran the half marathon and they've raised £980 for Lush Greens and our work growing veg to tackl...
18/05/2025

Faith, Henry and Freddie ran the half marathon and they've raised £980 for Lush Greens and our work growing veg to tackle food insecurity in Bristol!

Thank you SO much to those of you who donated, there's still time to donate (can we get it up to £1000?) 💚

Link also available in the bio.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-for-lush-greens-community-farm

We wanted to say a big thank you to our funders from last year who helped us achieve so much in tackling food insecurity...
07/05/2025

We wanted to say a big thank you to our funders from last year who helped us achieve so much in tackling food insecurity and getting people out on the land to improve health outcomes, social connection, community cohesion and so much more. Thank you:

Avon Wildlife Trust who funded the running of an 12 week Introduction to Horticulture Programme in collaboration with InHope Bristol, supporting graduates of their Life Course for people in recovery.

‌Feeding Bristol, who funded the growing and supply of a large weekly harvest of nutritious, fresh, seasonal, and culturally appropriate vegetables to four organisations delivering emergency food provision in South Bristol from August to December. For this project, we collaborated with:

- Counterslip Cares, BS3, and BS4 Food Banks run by InHope and the Trussell Trust
- Inns Court FOOD (Food on Our Doorsteps) Club (run by Family Action, Fareshare Southwest and Bristol Early Years)

‌Quartet Social Actions Small Grants who funded the employment of a volunteer coordinator to strengthen connections with local organisations and community groups, to promote our social action activity, and to deliver a weekly volunteer workday for 34 weeks.

‌Avon Wild Life Trust who funded us to develop our Green Social Prescribing provision: devloping ideas, creating case studies, and working with service users.

‌Places for People who funded us to engage with residents in one of their supported living homes in our area, and host volunteer sessions for them to collectively grow, harvest, pack and deliver vegetables to emergency food provision services in South Bristol.

‌Quartet Express Grant who funded us to develop our volunteering programme and to deliver additional weekly volunteer sessions between September and December 2024 during which volunteers would assist staff in growing and harvesting veg for community projects tackling food insecurity in South Bristol.

We are still seeking funding to support our work this year in the areas of volunteering facilitation, food provision for emergency food outlets, and delivering green social prescribing improve the health of people and nature in South Bristol. Get in touch if you can help 💚

Spring update.This spring couldn't have been any different from last year. We had a few weeks of absolutely blistering s...
16/04/2025

Spring update.

This spring couldn't have been any different from last year. We had a few weeks of absolutely blistering sunshine and a good bit of rain last night. Plants are holding up much better than this time last year 🤞

We've hosted for some weekend volunteering in the orchard. Welcomed staff from .303 for a day on the farm. Get in touch if you would like to explore a team away day on our community market garden 💚

We've have been taking part in research on the benefits of agroecology in urban environments. As part of this, we've been completing a carbon farm calculator and taking soil samples. Have a look at the dark, organic, and carbon rich soil from our garden compared to the brown, degraded soil of the field next to us 🤗

We redistributed surplus ingredients from to our local food club at Inns Court 😋

The propogation tunnel is alive with healthy seedlings. We've been planting our first crops of the year, including beds of broad beans, mangetout and sugar snap peas, cabbages, lettuce, beetroot, spring onions, and more. Thanks to all those who helped make this happen 💪

Olly has built us a propogater with a heated mat so we can germinate our tomatoes and aubergines. He has also been busy building pea supports using haras fencing, which looks like it could be a winner 💚

We've, of course, been making lots of new beds and topping up old ones ready for the growing season. Thanks to all our regular proficient users of wheelbarrows, we couldn't do it without you 🤩

We had a visit from and
to showcase the numerous benefits of urban and peri-urban farms like ours: growing fresh and healthy vegetables; tackling food isnecurity; improving the health of people and nature; increasing communtiy cohesion and resilience; providing access to green spaces and so much more 🌱

Anyway, enough from us for now. Get in touch if you'd like to come volunteer with us, buy veg from us, or donate to support our charitable work.

Hopefully, you'll hear from us again soon. The market garden is changing by the day so we'll do our best to update again soon 👌

A few highlights from the last couple of weeks:(Photo 1) We have started taking a weekly supply of seed husks and crop r...
17/03/2025

A few highlights from the last couple of weeks:

(Photo 1) We have started taking a weekly supply of seed husks and crop residue from . We use this organic material to add to our compost heap in order to make more of our own home-grown, biological compost to feed our market garden. This is a waste product in their production, so we have teamed up to ensure it doesn't go to waste and instead becomes compost to feed soil life and our vegetable crops. Simply Grow is a hydroponic set-up in Bristol growing microgreens.

(Photo 2) We have been teaming up with and their Bristol Goods pop-up food clubs, where they provide access to inexpensive, good quality foods. We went along to two of their food clubs in Hartcliffe and Hengrove to speak to their members about what we do, the veg we will hopefully be providing to their food clubs this year, how they can volunteer with us, and to invite them along to a site visit being organised through the Caring in Bristol crew.

(Photo 3 and 4) We have been busy making the most of the end of winter relocating trees that have been popping up around the market garden over the last couple of years. Our plan is to make a hedge along the south-westerly edge of the growing space to help protect from the strong prevailing winds we get on site. Over time, we would love to lay the hedge using traditional techniques such as those used by .

(Photos 5 and 6) check out our new volunteer flyers for 2025. We are running sessions on 'Mindful Gardening' and 'Community Farming' this year. Fill in our expression of interest form, found in our bio, if you would like to volunteer with us this year.

We have also been busy tending to the Orchard that we have taken on this year, facilitating a growing number of volunteers on the land each week, sowing seeds and getting the market garden ready for a year of cropping. 🥕

How different the start of the year has been to last, much more light, sunshine, and very little rain. We'll so far at least 😅

Last week, we had the pleasure of working with a team of volunteers from OrbisProtect and to help get us ready for the ...
12/03/2025

Last week, we had the pleasure of working with a team of volunteers from OrbisProtect and to help get us ready for the growing season. A main focus of the day was composting beds ready for planting potatoes and clearing back brambles on our access track and growing space, which meant that some fruit trees were freed up that had been inaccessible due to the brambles.

A generous donation of tools from OrbisProtect, along with volunteers for the day, meant that we got a lot done.

Our introduction to Orbis came through a developing relationship with
who recently gave us a grant to engage with residents in one of their supported living homes in our area, and host volunteer sessions for them to collectively grow, harvest, pack and deliver vegetables to emergency food provision services in South Bristol. As part of a day on the land, we provide each volunteer with a warm and healthy lunch using ingredients grown on site. We are looking forward to welcoming more of their residents to our site this year.

We are very grateful for these two partnerships which are helping us to engage with members of our local community, and grow seasonal and healthy vegetables to tackle food insecurity and improve the health of people and nature in Bristol. 🌱

We’d like to take a moment to thank those who donated to our work last year in 2024, helping us to achieve so much in ta...
05/03/2025

We’d like to take a moment to thank those who donated to our work last year in 2024, helping us to achieve so much in tackling food insecurity, and getting people out on to the land to improve health, social connection, community cohesion and so much more. Thanks to:

Our individual givers on our donation platform. If you would like to donate, please head to the below link, which can be found in our bio: https://ko-fi.com/lushgreensbristol
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CentralGroup who at their Charity Fundraising Christmas Raffle gave a generous donation towards the work we do to empower communities through fresh local, seasonal, and affordable food.

The donation on behalf of The Compton Inn (Compton Dando) Charity Quiz for supporting our work last year.

Green Energy Futures for their donation towards an events shelter to improve the experience of volunteers and groups who spend time at Lush Greens supporting us to grow vegetables for those facing food insecurity.

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Please get in touch if you would like to support our work at Lush Greens this year. As a small not-for-profit, donations are a vital part of funding that allow us to have a positive impact tackling food security and improving the health of people and nature in Bristol 💚

Check out our bio for links to our donation page and website 🌱

The sun is shining, and we roll on into March. Spring pokes its head from its winter slumber. Life slowly begins to retu...
02/03/2025

The sun is shining, and we roll on into March. Spring pokes its head from its winter slumber. Life slowly begins to return.

What a great first month back on the land we've had. Some highlights from February include:

- Our first Lush Greens Wassail on the new orchard we are taking 8 (see previous post).

- The orchard has a small polytunnel on it, which needs quite a bit of TLC, as it has become over run with brambles and the like. Thanks to all those who have helped clear and started to prepare the space for tasty new crops this year, it will be our first time growing tomatoes and aubergines.

- Lots of compost turning, of course.

- We had our annual compost delivery, which we use for seed sowing.

- We ordered seeds, and this week started sowing: broad beans, lettuce varieties, spring onions, and main crop onions. The propogation tunnel is already filling up quickly.

- We've had over 70 volunteers help this month (around 270 hours), 20 people come to visit the site, and we've provided 51 warm and healthy lunches free to volunteers.

- We've connected with and had volunteer support from and Occupational Therapy students from .

- We've shown residents and staff from around the site and set up volunteer opportunities for their residents to get involved.

- We've welcomed local health practitioners to the site looking to offer Green Social Prescribing opportunities, and we've had Bristol based businesses coming to the site looking to provide volunteer days for their teams.

It isn’t all hunky dory. Running a small social enterprise is hard work. Doing good by the land, our community, and ourselves is not easy when existing within an unhealthy system that does not value the work we do. There are many challenges, but primarily, it is proving difficult to finance the project despite working extremely hard and providing significant positive social and environmental benefits. We'll save the details for another time. Whilst there is great joy, meaning, and importance in what we do, the reality is that it hasn't so far provided a livelihood that we can survive on.
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We’d like to take a moment to thank all those who bought veg from us over the growing season last year and in doing so c...
10/02/2025

We’d like to take a moment to thank all those who bought veg from us over the growing season last year and in doing so contributed to our work in tackling food insecurity, getting people out on the land to improve health outcomes, social connection, community cohesion and so much more. Thanks to:

Our Community Supported Agriculture members who bought a share of the veg harvest between June and November. Many of these people are also part of our volunteer team. Lush Greens wouldn’t be here without you

who regularly bought veg from us for use at their markets and in their community meals. Not only this but they have always been extremely generous in their willingness to support and champion our work. They offer opportunities for engagement by bringing local people together to learn, socialise, share skills and experiences, and improve their health and wellbeing on a converted bowling green in Redcatch Park.

who regularly bought veg from us for use in their recipe kits supporting young people suffering from food insecurity in the city. They deliver recipe kits and cooking workshops to reduce isolation, build confidence and make those in need feel cared for and extraordinary. We are looking forward to the ways in which we partner again this year.

who bought veg from us to use in their kitchen with the community group One Love Hub. They work to reduce hunger, improve health, and bring people together through food and cooking. We are looking forward to building on this relationship further this year.

Both Redcatch, Mazi and Sqaure Food Foundation understand the power of food to change lives and recognise the importance of where that food comes from in doing this. We are grateful to partner with them and others to improve Bristol’s local food system and champion food justice.

Please get in touch if you think we could partner this year. We grow and supply Bristol grown, fresh and healthy vegetables that improves the health of people and place.

Our website and more information on how to support us and buy veg is available in our bio link.

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