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.

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.thegoldenhillcommunitygarden.com
@ghcommunitygarden

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

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 currently have two last minutes spaces in our Tuesday Toddler Group!  –  email Lucy at ghcgarden@gmail.com to book***

Hi everyone And suddenly it’s September!  Pumpkins are turning orange, the kids’ are back to school and even with today’s sunshine autumn is knocking on the door… so it must be nearly time for our little Harvest Fair!  Come and enjoy delicious food, drumming, folk music, and loads of free kids’ activities including a quieter indoor space!

We are currently short of a choir to sing so if you are in one that you could ask please do! And if you’ve come to our our lovely events before and wondered “How is this so lovely?!?” Well it’s because of our amazing team of fabulous volunteers… and you – yes YOU!- could be one of them!  You’ll get a free cup of tea and piece of delicious cake and a lovely warm feeling from helping make this lovely day even more lovely!  This year we are currently very short of people so if you can spare some time on the day please be a hero and get in touch!  or bake us a cake or share our poster on your facebook page or just come along and enjoy the loveliness and bring along everyone you know! But before the Harvest Festival and the first kids back for the afterschool club I’ll just take a mo to smile fondly and reminisce about Golden Adventure days and our families days for children with SEND which were just lovely.  The highlights for me had to be munching freshly made plum jam and on freshly made pancakes and hearing from parents how special the days are for them and their kids.  We also ran a day for the Family Centre for Deaf Children and so had loads of new families discovering the garden, making and munching pizza, harvesting plums, making and doing, running, playing and relaxing. Great stuff. Also we were on the telly! On BBC Gardeners’ World!  Just for a little bit as part of the story of donated veg making it’s way on to kids plates across the city. We were on episode 19 and the link to watch it on iplayer is HERE and the Bristol bit is just a few minutes in.  They came and filmed right after the huge heat wave back in late June so the garden was looking pretty crispy but with clever camera work we look absolutely gorgeous. Keep your eyes peeled for our glorious which definitely deserves celebrity status!  Now after the rains of summer the garden is looking very green and lovely and each week we are ankle deep in harvest!  It’s a great time to get involved and we’re here every Weds 10-4.  New folks are welcome along for a tour and chat at 12 or 2:30 or just come when you can 🙂 See you in the garden! Lucy Lucy Mitchell Community Project Worker 07506 905 394 www.thegoldenhillcommunitygarden.com

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!