Sims Hill Shared Harvest

Sims Hill Shared Harvest Member-owned Community Supported Agriculture project in North Bristol What is a CSA? This may include subsidized membership for members on low incomes.

A CSA is a popular farming model where the members come together and invest in the running of the farm and receive a share of the Harvest, as opposed to being customers who pay for specific products. The budget for the farm and what members contribute is negotiated, seeking to establish a fair and transparent deal for all concerned. There are many CSAs now running in the USA and the UK which are b

ased on the model of the grower owning and managing the land and business. We are hoping to be one of the first CSAs where the project will be owned and run by its members on an equal basis with the growers. We are exploring the potential legal and organisational methods to allow this to happen. The site has been worked as pasture for the last 30 years, but before that was just one of the many thriving market gardens that supplied food for the city. Sims Hill Shared Harvest is determined to help bring this land back into active food production. The site:
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=158640810846093&set=a.158640780846096.28270.158631624180345

Who we are:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Sims-Hill-Shared-Harvest/158631624180345?v=app_2373072738 #!/topic.php?uid=158631624180345&topic=290

PIGEON PARTY!!This Sunday 19 April you could be in for your chance to win:~ A long weekend in Crantock, Cornwall, in a h...
17/04/2026

PIGEON PARTY!!
This Sunday 19 April you could be in for your chance to win:
~ A long weekend in Crantock, Cornwall, in a holiday cottage which sleeps 8 and is a 10 minute walk from the beach
~ x2 tickets
~ .oldmarket haircut
~ £40 voucher
~ £20 voucher
~ x3 sessions
~£10 voucher
~ x2 sessions
~ £10 voucher
~ brewed2give case
~ cafe voucher
~ brewery tour

Come down and enjoy the BBQ, games, farm tour, music and performances, and more. Celebrate sims and all we love about our trusty friend, the pigeon.

We will also be holding a sign-up stall to our veg share, which is a great way to fill your belly and your heart with agroecological vegetables.

1-5pm 19th April
Sims Hill Shared Harvest

Thank you so much to all the local businesses who are supporting sims and community supported agriculture

See you there x
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Our first event of the year🌱 a spring affair with a 🐦 pigeon based theme in towDiscovering our relationships with pigeon...
11/04/2026

Our first event of the year
🌱 a spring affair with a 🐦 pigeon based theme in tow

Discovering our relationships with pigeons on the farm

If you’re intrigued, save the date, and come on down for the best pigeon party in Bristol.

Food, fun and feathers🪶🍴 🤩

1-5 pm 19th April (Sunday)
Sims Hill Shared Harvest

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✨ Sims Hill is looking for new board members! ✨Are you passionate about sustainability 🌍? Do you care about how we grow ...
14/02/2026

✨ Sims Hill is looking for new board members! ✨

Are you passionate about sustainability 🌍? Do you care about how we grow and consume our food 🌱? Do you want to be part of a community farming project in the heart of Bristol 🫶?

Then we want to hear from you!

We have two board spots opening up in March 2026. If you think you have the time and skills to support Sims Hill we would love to hear from you. We are particularly looking for people with experience of:

- 📈Financial management and accounting,
- 👩‍🌾People management and operations, and
- 🤝Membership and customer experience.

But mostly, we value energy, creativity and commitment to what Sim Hill stands for. If you want to learn and contribute, then we would love to hear from you. In return you’ll have a chance to:

- Play an active role in Bristol’s local food movement,
- Learn the ins and outs of co-operative business management,
- Help grow a community-led food project in the heart of Bristol.

To be on the board, you will need to commit to attending monthly meetings (on the 2nd Thursday of the month, 7-9pm) and other members' meetings throughout the year, take part in tasks and decision making between meetings and build meaningful connections while helping shape a local, sustainable food system.

You don’t need to have experience of growing to apply. If you think you have the energy and passion to help us take Sims Hill to the next level - we want to hear from you!

Get in touch today at [email protected] to express your interest or find out more.

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Are you passionate about sustainability 🌍? Do you care about how we grow and consume our food 🌱? Do you want to be part of a community farming project in the heart of Bristol 🫶?

📢Then we want to hear from you! 📢

Sims Hill is looking for two brilliant minds to join the board in March 2026. We’re particularly interested in people with experience of:

- 📈Financial management and accounting,
- 👩‍🌾People management and operations, and
- 🤝Membership and customer experience.

But mostly, we value energy, creativity and commitment to what Sim Hill stands for. If you want to learn and contribute, then we would love to hear from you.

In return for your time, you’ll have the chance to play an active role in Bristol’s local food movement while gaining experience of running a co-operative, community-led business.

What you can expect from being on the board:

- Taking part in monthly board meetings (every 2nd Thursday of the month, 7-9pm), and other members' meetings throughout the year.
- Take part in tasks and decision making between meetings.
- Build meaningful connections while helping shape a local, sustainable food system.

You don’t need to have experience of growing to apply. If you think you have the energy and passion to help us take Sims Hill to the next level - we want to hear from you!

Get in touch today at [email protected] to express your interest or find out more.

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A fresh start to the year! 🌱 Our growers kicked off 2026 at the Oxford Real Farming Conference, returning with a harvest...
31/01/2026

A fresh start to the year! 🌱 Our growers kicked off 2026 at the Oxford Real Farming Conference, returning with a harvest of inspiration to grow our mission.
This month, we’re sharing a bittersweet goodbye to Jo. She’s moving on to focus her energy on the vital Basic Income for Farmers campaign. We wish Jo all the best in pursuing her mission—sowing the seeds of stability for all farmers! 🌾
On a high note, we give a big, warm welcome to Petra! Petra was one of the pioneers when we started the three co-growers model. We celebrate her return—and her birthday—with a homemade salmon cake by Sarah!

Join our AGM!
We’d also hope to see a lot of you at this year’s AGM, which will take place on 5th March at Gasworks Studio, 27 Narroways Rd, Bristol BS2 9XB from 7-9pm.
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Volunteer Day: Flyer for SimsThroughout the summer, we run monthly volunteer sessions. You can now find them on Eventbri...
18/01/2026

Volunteer Day: Flyer for Sims

Throughout the summer, we run monthly volunteer sessions. You can now find them on Eventbrite. They are always a great moment to connect with each other and enjoy a group task, getting something done together which would be a mammoth mission if one person tackled it on their own.

At Sims we set a budget every year, and this year we have made ourselves a target of getting ten new full share members. The aim is to bring ourselves up to 110 full share equivalents. This will allow us to run the farm sustainably, ensuring we have enough to spend on things like fertilising our soil using a mixture of compost and green manures, and paying our delivery driver a fair wage.

If you are at a loss and fancy getting out and about for the day, we will be holding a volunteer flyering session! Exciting. It will be on Sunday 1st Feb at 10.30am. we will start outside better food and wander round for an hour or so, leafleting houses surrounding the local pick up points.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sims-hill-csa-farm-monthly-volunteer-sunday-with-a-twist-tickets-1980462576880?aff=ebdsoporgprofile

As the year opens, one cannot help looking further afield at the world and wondering where on earth to start. Sims is a reminder of the magic that happens when we act collectively, say no to big money and power, and create our own places for people and vegetables to flourish. Our thoughts are with those who continue to fight against these rights being repressed, and those surviving under fascist, oppressive, violent systems.
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Happy 2026!  Wish all of you a fantastic new year.   Thanks soooo much to all the people who have got us close to 85% of...
05/01/2026

Happy 2026! Wish all of you a fantastic new year.

Thanks soooo much to all the people who have got us close to 85% of our fundraising target. Three more weeks to go, please support us to reach the remaining 15% target. A contribution of any amount would be greatly appreciated. You can donate by clicking the link to my fundraiser below:
https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/....../get-sims-hill......

We received some generous donations to be offered as rewards for our crowdfunding:
1. 1 month of free veg share from Sims (in February 2026)
2. United Models life drawing session
3. Massive crown prince squash
4. Print by Kizzie
5. Sippy Fish Asian street food set

We need your support to purchase a new delivery van to distribute our vegetables and upgrade our tool storage, following severe damage to our vehicle during a break-in.

Thank you for supporting us!

@追蹤者 Bristol Good Food 2030 Shift Bristol Grow Wilder Bristol Food Producers St Werburghs City Farm

Thanks soooo much to all the people who have got us close to 80% of our fundraising target. We are very lucky to have so...
23/12/2025

Thanks soooo much to all the people who have got us close to 80% of our fundraising target. We are very lucky to have so much support. Also, some things that people have said during the campaign are keeping us going and believing in Sims!

We received some generous donations to be offered as rewards for our crowdfunding:
1. 1 month of free veg share from Sims (in January 2026)
2. United Models life drawing session
3. Massive crown prince squash
4. Print by Kizzie
5. Sippy Fish Asian street food set

We need your support to purchase a new delivery van to distribute our vegetables and upgrade our tool storage, following severe damage to our vehicle during a break in.

CROWDFUNDER TARGET: £6,000

Please support us to reach the remaining 20% target. A contribution of any amount would be greatly appreciated. You can donate by clicking the link to my fundraiser below:
https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/get-sims-hill-back-on-the-road?fbclid=IwY2xjawO3me5leHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETBCRk40R1hWOENQWkZVWTR6c3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHkGholeWf4Irt6YtRa8TdIUHGfLdGLj4peuaB6QGvVMeGg981H6qCnZ-eOw7_aem__cTHfec0aFFjsForQ9xUuw

Have a warm and joyful Christmas!
Thank you for supporting us!

@追蹤者 Bristol Good Food 2030 St Werburghs City Farm Bristol Food Producers Shift Bristol CSA Network UK - Community Supported Agriculture

We need your support to purchase a new delivery van to distribute our vegetables, following severe damage to our vehicle...
01/12/2025

We need your support to purchase a new delivery van to distribute our vegetables, following severe damage to our vehicle during a break in.

🎯 CROWDFUNDER TARGET: £6,000

Why we need your help:

To deliver our harvest, we rely on a delivery van - and a delivery driver - to reach 8 distribution points across Bristol on a weekly basis. On November 4th, our delivery van was severely damaged during a break in, and had to be written off as a result. The windows were smashed, the tyres slashed, locks broken, and the panel had holes torn into it. In the meantime, we are borrowing a van for temporary use until the end of January 2026.

Although we are insured, the company reported a total loss, and the payout is too small to cover a full replacement. Because the margins are so small in small-scale agriculture, we cannot afford to fill the gap needed to purchase a suitable van to continue weekly deliveries beyond January.

As we have experienced multiple break ins, we also need to improve the security of our site, to protect our tools, so we aim to buy a secure storage container with your support.

5 reasons we think you should support us in raising this fund:

🚐 We need a replacement van to prevent disruption of vegetable delivery.
🚐 We aim to reduce emissions by purchasing a green electric hybrid van.
🚐 We want to look for a van with a higher capacity to accommodate growing membership.
🚐 We use this opportunity to review our storage facilities to minimise risks of economic loss in the future.
🚐 We need an immediate security upgrade for our tool storage facilities.

How can you support Sims Hill?

🫰 Contribute to this crowdfunding campaign
👉 Help spread this crowdfunding call
☝️ Signing up as a CSA share member

Thank you for supporting us!

https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/get-sims-hill-back-on-the-road

@追蹤者 Bristol Good Food 2030 Shift Bristol CSA Network UK - Community Supported Agriculture Bristol Food Producers Bristol Food Connections Bristol Local Food Fund St Werburghs City Farm

COP30 just opened today in Belém, Brazil.  The centre piece is an “Agri Zone” near to the official COP proceedings.  The...
10/11/2025

COP30 just opened today in Belém, Brazil. The centre piece is an “Agri Zone” near to the official COP proceedings. The Agri Zone is established by Embrapa (the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation), dedicated entirely to agribusiness interests. Top industry lobby groups, Nestle, PepsiCo, Bayer, along with Bill Gates, whose foundation, as a major Agri Zone sponsor, will host sessions and get a space to dazzle COP delegates. The UK government, along with Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Japan, and the Netherlands representatives, will attend.
To learn more: Listen to Jyoti Fernandez of Land Worker Alliance and La Vía Campesina denouncing how false climate solutions burden Southern peoples, perpetuating the chains of colonialism and extractive plunder. The reparations are simply supporting agroecology and local food networks, rejecting all forms of private, conditional, or colonial climate funding.

See details:
https://viacampesina.org/en/2025/11/mst-agribusiness-gets-its-turn-to-co-opt-the-climate-cop-in-brazil/
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DQxN2VCD4wG/?igsh=ZmNueTE4dW5nYWp3
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Tomato Tasting Bristol Grab a ticket to join the Gaia Foundation's Seed Sovereignty Programme for a day celebrating toma...
07/09/2025

Tomato Tasting Bristol

Grab a ticket to join the Gaia Foundation's Seed Sovereignty Programme for a day celebrating tomato diversity at Sims Hill CSA. An event for Growers and Chefs with an interest in seed diversity, flavour and food systems. What will you get?
-Tasting tomatoes from outdoor blight resistance trials
-Taste a variety of locally grown tomatoes from the South West of England and the South of Wales
-Tomato themed feast prepared by Setonji’s Sunshine Kitchen
-A talk from Songsoo Kim of Super8 Restaurants about deepening relationships between chefs and farms

Date: Mon 15 Sep 2025 (10:30 AM - 3:30 PM)
Venue: Sims Hill CSA, BS16 1EL
Ticket: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/thegaiafoundation/1819413

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Tomato heroes we had an absolute blast celebrating all things tomato with you last Sunday!!From pick your own tomatoes, ...
11/08/2025

Tomato heroes we had an absolute blast celebrating all things tomato with you last Sunday!!
From pick your own tomatoes, exquisite fancy dress, tomato throwing competitions, lovely music from Ame & Tramp, farm tours, seed saving workshops, face paint, Lino print & and delicious food…
We couldn’t do any of this without youuuuu✨🍅✨🍅
With your support, enthusiasm and bundles of help, we managed to raise over £700 to keep everything running at Sims Hill ✨✨✨
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