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Author Archives: GHCG
Wreath making
November 4, 2024
Hi folks
The leaves change colour and the seasons change and now on to the next thing! Wreath making! We are taking booking now It’s a fun and informal session and you’ll be shown how to weave a hoop out of willow and then decorate it with glorious winter foliage. The booking site is HERE. The creative process usually takes about an hour though it’s fine to take your time as long as you are done by the time we close!
These days are always lovely and full of good cheer and lovely people all enjoying the process of making something beautiful and chatting and chirping along the way! It’s £30 per wreath and you’re welcome to make one together as a family or with pals and children are welcome. If you are low waged/in receipt of benefits then we have a lower cost option lower cost option and free places if money is a barrier.
HARVEST FAIR AND CROWD FUNDER FOR OUR NEW KITCHEN
September 20, 2024
Hi everyone
Right our first ever crowd funder has just gone live! We’ve had amazing help from some amazing volunteers and we’ve made the t-shirts! They’ve made a video! We are looking to find the last bit of money we need to build our new shelter and outdoor kitchen so please help if you can! Our current shelter is too crowded and we just don’t fit in and our current kitchen is in a corner in a polytunnel and it’s a nightmare to keep clean and it gets far too hot in the sun and too loud in the rain. On Monday one of our playworkers Sarah nearly passed out cooking apples with the kids at the after school club!
Check out our crowdfunder website HERE. And I’ll put it on our Facebook and Instagram so if you do those please share it with anyone you think might be interested!
There are loads of lovely rewards for folks who pledge some money including tote bags, postcards, bunches of flowers, trips to an exclusive private cinema AND best of all these fab t-shirts! Available in all kids, babies and adult sizes. We’ve been talking about building a proper kitchen for 5 or so years but we’ve been talking about getting t-shirts made for at least a decade and we couldn’t be more chuffed with how they turned out.
Also the Harvest Fair! IT’S ON SATURDAY! If you can’t make it please tell your pals or if you could ping the poster around your local street or parent Whatsapp group that’d be amazing!
If you can make it there’ll be some or Bristol’s finest samosa to munch on, drumming, morris dancing from the fab Kittiwake Morris at 2pm, and loads of free kids’ activities including vegetable sculptures, and pond dipping and a quieter indoor space with a play worker leading sensory play. We’ll have the big apple press out for making juice as well as the amazing little apple machine for everyone to get involved in. Please being any along spare apples to add to the pile especially if you know a heavily laden tree where ones they might be apples going to waste – cookers or eaters, bruised or blemish free are all welcome. It’ll be a lovely day and we’d love to see you!
We’ll also have a stand at the fair where you can come for a chat about the kitchen project and find out more about the crowdfunder so please come and say hello!
And I’ll leave you with two tales of unexpected triumph. Firstly here’s a pic of the only runner beans we manged to grow this year – which is of course rubbish – but hats off to this plucky little bean plant that despite being eaten repeatedly down to a nub kept on growing! What a champ! And it means we have achieved beans when we thought all was lost. And here’s picture of a pumpkin that’s happily romping away across the mouse safe propagation shelves in the polytunnel – we didn’t plant it there on purpose but a seed must have dropped been back in spring and now it’s the best looking squash we’ve got!
See you at the fair – and please check out the crowdfunder – donate if you can or spread the word if you know anyone that might 🙂 The website again is HERE
Lucy
Lucy Mitchell
Community Project Worker
07506 905 394
www.
@ghcommunitygarden
Harvest fair and a big new project
September 6, 2024
Hi everyone
And suddenly it’s autumn! Pumpkins are turning orange, the kids’ are back to school and the rain has been hammering down… here’s hoping it clears up in time for our little Harvest Fair! Please come along on Saturday 21st September and enjoy delicious food, drumming, morris dancing from the fab Kittiwake Morris, and loads of free kids’ activities including vegetable sculptures, and pond dipping and a quieter indoor space. We’ll be apple pressing so please being any along especially if you know a heavily laden tree where ones they might be apples going to waste…
We are currently short of a choir to sing so if you are in one that you could ask please do! And if you’d like to help on the day please let me know or if you could bake us a cake that’s be grand or please please ping our poster around you local Whatsapp group… or just come along on the day, enjoy the loveliness and bring along everyone you know!

We just don’t fit!
AND I’ve got an exciting new project to tell you about. We’ve been dreaming and scheming, plotting and planning, and (importantly) fundraising with the aim of building ourselves a new outdoor shelter and kitchen. Our current shelter can’t fit us in and our current kitchen is a little gas hob in the corner of the polytunnel. It’s a bit of a trek to the sink which means it’s a real challenge and constant work keeping things hygienic and it’s unbearably hot on sunny days and too loud on rainy days. Anyone who’s been along on a Wednesday volunteer day knows we’ve talking about this for at least 6 years or more. So we’re doing it! We’re going to build a new one with a sink! We’ve raised the funds we need for the actual structure from Awards for All from the National Lottery (whooop!) and now we need to get the money together for the groundworks, the canvas sides and fitting out the kitchen.
So hold on to your hats because on the 17th September we’ll be launching our first ever Crowdfunder to hep us raise the f
inal £6000 and we hope that you’ll support us if you can, or help us spread the word! For you’ve not seen these before it’s an online way of fundraising and for any amount you donate there’s a reward! And for folks that can chip in we’ve got some great treats in store from our gorgeous new funky t-shirts, beautiful prints, postcards, bunches of flower, exclusive nights out a Bristol’s smallest and coolest cinema AND MORE! Here’s a sneak pic at one of our the brand new super cool new t-shirts that will up for grabs!
We’ll have a stand at the fair where you can come for a chat and find out more and donate so please come and have a chat!
See you at the fair!
Lucy
SPRING FAIR!
April 11, 2024
Hi folks
Spring is definitely springing in the garden. I love this time of year and on a sunny Wednesday with a fab team of volunteers anything seems possible. We’ve had a great winter of fixing, sorting, building and tidying and springing into the 2024 growing season and the garden is looking great and our sheds are (currently) glorious beacons of organisation and order. And if the tadpoles are wriggling, the birds are singing and the polytunnels are filling up with seedlings then it must be nearly time for our…



We’ve been very busy sowing and propagating and pricking out and potting on so we’ve got loads of lovely heritage vegetable seedlings and a load drought proof, slug proof, very easy to grow flowering perennials that will be available to buy – all grown chemical free and in peat free compost right on your doorstep. So please come along and tell all your friends and leave with some of lovely plants.
We are starting back our lovely toddler group next week and WE HAVE SPACES! It’s a lovely relaxed session of digging, playing, harvesting, crafting, exploring nature, climbing, chatting, riding around in small cars, pond dipping and coming together for singing and a story. We’re a friendly bunch, there’s hot drink available and there’s always something exciting happening on a tiny level – a new caterpillar, a worm ball, a new tasty thing to try. We run term time Tuesdays or Fridays 10-11:30 and we’re starting 16th/19th April and we’re aimed at 18 months to pre-schoolers. We take bookings by the term and it’s £8 or lower price £6 session and £3/£2.50 for extra siblings, babies are free and there are some free places if money is a barrier to you joining. There’s more info on our website at HERE You can book the spot HERE or get in touch at ghcgarden@gmail.com to join the waiting list for September.

This winter has been the wettest we’ve ever had in the garden with more flooding then ever. We had to put off sowing seeds outdoors as things were just too cold and soggy, and we delayed planting out seedlings because of cold, harsh winds but today it finally feels like weather that plants would like to grow in but who know what comes next??
Right now our beds are mulched, our secateurs are sharpened, we’ve got newly built shelves, tidy sheds, some lovely new signage and loads of seedlings and we’ve ready for whatever the 2024 growing season throws at us! If you’d like to join us please come along any Wednesday. We’re here 10-4 and new folks are welcome along at 12 or 2:30 for a tour or just come when you can. No need to come every week or stay all day, no experience necessary and we’ve always got a range of jobs to suit different energy levels. Come! We’re a friendly bunch and we’d love to have you along 🙂
AND finally we’re on Instagram! A friendly young person has even taught me how me make reels. We’re @ghcommunitygarden so if you like this sort of thing please come give us a follow and validate my efforts! 🙂
See you in the garden!
Happy soggy new year!
January 15, 2024
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Christmas Wreath making!
October 12, 2023

Harvest fair and garden news
September 8, 2023
*** We’ve currently have two last minutes spaces in our Tuesday Toddler Group! – email Lucy at ghcgarden@gmail.com to book***
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COME TO THE LOVELY SPRING FAIR!!!
April 27, 2023
Hi folks
Our Spring Fair it just around the corner! Saturday 13th May 1-4. Please come and please bring all your pals
We’ve got a great day planned!
We’ll be selling loads of lovely veg and flower seedlings as well as some slug proof perennials to bring colour to your garden or pots year after year!
There’ll be beautiful singing from the wonderful Break Out Voices Choir and the Heartwood Chorus AND live music from the ever fabulous What the Folk!?!
They’ll be storytelling and seedplanting, facepainting, may crown making pond dipping and … Bat the Rat!!
They’re to cake and pizza fresh from the clay oven to eat.
It’s going to great! Spread the word! We’re on facebook at The Golden Hill Community Garden if you could share our post that’s be great…
BUT WE NEED HELP!!! Can you bake us a cake or spare us an hour or so on the day??? Get in touch if you can help us make this our best event yet and help us raise some much needed funds for the garden!??
See you in the garden!
Lucy
07506 905 394
ghcgarden@gmail.com
Spring news!
March 8, 2023



