Lush Greens Bristol

21/04/2026

Today was our first session with year 5 students from .

Together, we had a tour of the farm, discovered some vegetables in the garden, prepared some growing beds, and did some planting.

We are looking forward to the remaining sessions this term as we learn to grow food together and look after the land at Lush Greens with our local school.

Thanks for a great morning 🌱

31/03/2026

We are well and truly up and running at Lush Greens for 2026.

After a good winter break and then our head in admin and planning for the second half of January, we have been back on the land hosting volunteers and gearing up for the season.

We've cleaned polytunnels, preped beds, sown seeds, pruned fruit trees and tended to the orchard (thanks Janine for leading the workshop), received compost deliveries, visited other farms (thanks .marketgarden for sharing your wisdom with us), harvested over wintered veg, made dead hedges, been visited by many a feline friend (hopefully they'll start catching some rodents), attended events with local partners ( .bristol ), woodchipped paths, made compost, and so much more.

It's not all been easy going, we've had several challenges with rodents getting into places they shouldn't be and eating seeds from our propogation tunnel, injuries that have slowed our progress, and a to do list that never seems to shrink. But as always, we will do what we can and know that it is more than enough.

We are forever grateful for the continued and growing support we get from our volunteer community. Do get in touch (link in the bio) if you want to get involved.

We'll be back with some more updates soon.

Go well. Get outside. Sow some seeds. Share some food 🌱

16/02/2026

We couldn't not share the stunning photos took last year, on what seemed to be the one day it rained all year!

Along with and , they put together a gorgeous piece of photo journalism called Bristol’s Regenerative Culture.

We are always grateful for the work of Mark, Ursula and others for championing all the good stuff happening in tucked away corners of Bristol.

You can see the article that accompanies the photos here: https://www.bristol247.com/climate/in-photos-climate/lush-greens-feeding-people-emotionally-physically/

06/02/2026

Happy belated 2026, all. Better late than never, here are some photos and a few highlights of last year. We'll be sharing a few more in the coming weeks.

A few things we got up to:

Photo 1 - Lush Greens looking stunning under morning balloons.

Photo 2 - Making a lot of homegrown compost to feed the soil, sustain the health of her microbes, and our plants.

Photo 3 - Soil samples and tests showing how the soil has been improved relative to the area around the market garden: storing more carbon, holding more water, sustaining more life. Look at that dark chocolate soil compared to the sticky lifeless pale brown clay soil.

Photos 4-5: Sowing thousands and thousands of seeds with the care, attention, and love of many beautiful hands.

Photos 6-7: Making new growing beds and topping up existing ones. We moved a lot of compost and woodchip in wheelbarrows.

Photos 8-9: Growing flowers to attract our pollinator and predator insect friends.

Photos 10-14: Olly made us a beautiful homemade heated propagator for starting our tomatoes and aubergines off in a warm, safe place. And amongst other things, a brilliantly thought-out fencing system for our spring peas to climb and be protected from birds.

Photo 15 - Numerous gifts and support from our amazing volunteer community in the form of murals and so much more.

Photos 16-19: Volunteers of all ages, turning up day in and day out, to help collectively grow food for our community and share in the joy of working with our bodies in a thriving green space.

Photo 20: And the Patch, for always being there for us, welcoming us, and sharing in her abundance.

There's plenty more to say, so keep an eye out for a few more incoming reflections and highlights of last year :)

19/12/2025

Come and spend time outside on a community farm in Whitchurch. Get in touch for more details or drop us an email at [email protected]

“It is important for me to raise my kids to know where food comes from.”

Lush Greens in Whitchurch has transformed 1.75 acres into a thriving market garden, growing 3,200kg of veg in 2024 for food banks

Volunteers find purpose, connection, and nature in this thriving market garden.

Read full story here 👉https://arcg.is/1WrLq91

15/09/2025

Join us for a celebration of all the Lush Greens Community has achieved this year. There'll be good food and drink, and a chance to hear what Lush Greens is all about, what we've achieved this year, and our hopes, dreams and plans for the future.

There will be apple pressing, great prizes in a raffle, music, games, farm tours and more.

This event is free and open to anyone, regardless of whether you've connected with Lush Greens before.

Rough timings are

11:00 - 12:00 Grab a slice of cake and a hot drink

12:00 - 13:00 Farm tour and hear what Lush Greens has achieved this year, and our thoughts for where next year might take us.

13:00 - 14:00 Delicious shared harvest meal cooked with veg from the Patch.

14:00 - 17:00 Wander round the market garden, chat and meet volunteers, staff and local people, involved in the project, plus music, singing, games and perhaps even some gardening for those inclined.

15:00 Raffle draw and prizes

17:00 Event ends

For those who've not heard of us before, Lush Greens is a non-profit community market garden in Hengrove, South Bristol. Our staff and volunteers collaborate to grow an abundance of beautiful, delicious vegetables and fruit based on organic principles for Food Banks, Food Clubs, other community projects and members of our Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) scheme. We host volunteer days from Tuesday to Friday, and on the 3rd Saturday of every month.

Raffle and donations

There will also be an excellent set of raffle prizes. Raffle tickets can be bought in advance or on the day. Any money raised from raffle tickets will go back into Lush Greens to contribute to our work supplying veg to foodbanks in South Bristol.

You can also contribute a one-off or regular donation on our giving platform: https://ko-fi.com/lushgreensbristol

15/09/2025

This Sunday, 21st September, 10 am to 4 pm, we will be running an open day as part of the Bristol Get Growing Trail. Come and check out what we do in our local community.

Bristol’s flourishing network of community gardens, orchards, and urban farms will open their gates for this year’s Get Growing Trail, taking place 20–21 September 2025. Now a much-anticipated fixture in the city’s green calendar, this year’s harvest-themed Trail invites visitors to explore 34 diverse growing spaces, meet the people behind them, and discover how growing food is nurturing both people and place. There will be family-friendly activities on offer and food and drink available at many of the sites.

This year's Trail is especially vibrant, with 11 new groups joining the line-up – from Westbury Library Garden in the north to Lush Greens Bristol in the south, and the innovative Bristol Rainforest project in the city centre, which is showcasing a hydroponic ‘Wall of Veg’ designed to make growing food possible even without a garden. Community growing groups are represented from all over the city, from Brentry to Bedminster, St. Pauls to Southville, and Westbury to Whitchurch.

27/08/2025

We recently hosted an event organised by the BS14 Global Majority People of Colour group at Lush Greens.

In the words of Marilyn, one of the members of the group they wanted to say:

A massive THANK YOU to those who came along to support the event.

It was a huge success. It was the first event that BS14 Global Community POC has organised. There will be more events to come.

A thousand thanks to the volunteers who worked very hard to make the event happen and be so successful. 👍🏽👍🏽👏🏽👏🏽🌹❤️

To the ukulele ensemble, Grassy Knowle, who were amazing 😍

Jo Salter, Chairman of Whitchurch & Hengrove Com Group, granted the funding for the event, came along, and showed her support. She is also the Chairman for Friends of Whitchurch Library, allowing us to borrow tables and flask for the event. It was a huge help 👍🏽👍🏽👏🏽👏🏽

Brenda, ASDA Community Champion, with donations of melons, pineapples, and strawberries. We enjoyed it. 👍🏽👍🏽👏🏽👏🏽❤️

Maddison, professional photographer, for free. Photos will be posted after the editing.

2 Councillors came to show their support. Amazing.

Lush Green, of course, for allowing us to use their space 👍🏽👍🏽👏🏽🌹

🎉🎈THANK YOU 👍🏽👏🏽🌹❤️

Marilyn
Inclusive Community Facilitator
Bristol City Council

04/08/2025

Set backs and challenges

Whilst many things have been flourishing on the farm this year, delicious veg, superb volunteers, rich wildlife, nutritious shared meals, and so much more, we have also been up against it in some areas.

Sadly, we have had a series of break-ins and vandalism, which have meant we've suffered damage to our polytunnels, crops, and seedlings. Thanks to our wonderful volunteers, we have resown crops and repotted seedlings that had been tipped over and thrown on the floor, replanted crops pulled out the ground and other restorative acts. We've had damage done to polytunnel doors and the plastic covering them, as well as other aimless damage to plants and the site in general.

This has come at a cost, repairing infrastructure, the need to buy more seed, the time taken to resow and replant, and the time we've lost being unable to plant crops when we would have liked to.

Alongside this, we have yet to be successful in landing any grant funding to cover the cost of growing and delivering the veg we provide to emergency food outlets in South Bristol such as Foodbanks and Food Clubs. Despite this, we have been providing an abundance of veg every week since May, as we believe access to healthy food should be a right for all.

Furthermore, the prolonged dry weather we have had until recently has meant lots of our crops have suffered, as we can't get enough water on them to keep plants, especially the younger ones, alive.

Despite working tirelessly and doing our best to respond, all this adds up to a considerable cost to the project.

That's why we are asking those that are able to, to consider giving a donation, anything however small or big, one-off or regular, makes a massive difference in supporting us to overcome some of these knockbacks.

We remain hopeful for the future but would be massively grateful for any short-term financial support for the project as we ride out some tricky waves.

As always, we are very grateful for all of the different ways you support us, Lush Greens wouldn't exist without you.

A link to our donation platform can be found in our bio - https://ko-fi.com/lushgreensbristol

Many thanks,

Jimmy and Olly

02/07/2025

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