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
Wreath making! We run this every year and we love it. We love running it and folks love coming to it. So snap up your place before we sell out! 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. It’s takes about an hour though it’s fine to take your time as long as you are done by 4. We are taking bookings in half hour waves, so we’ll be starting the process again every half hour.
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. We’ve put our price up this year as we need to raise funds for the garden but I think we still are by far the cheapest wreath workshop in town! If you are low waged/in receipt of benefits then we have a lower cost option lower cost option. I think we’ll also be doing wreath kits again for folks who can’t make it to us but please get in touch closer to the time to check.
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See you in the garden!
Lucy
Lucy Mitchell (she/her)
Community Project Worker
07506 905 394
ghcgarden@gmail.com
Come one come all to our Harvest Fair! There will be apple pressing so bring apples if you have them and a 2l container to take juice away! We have the fabulous Geoff demonstarting wood turning and selling his gorgeous wares.
We’ll have veg monster creation and pond dipping and giant games and the digging bed and a quiet sensory space and clay crafts for kids and MORE!!
As well as music from What the Folk?! Jez on guitar and singing from Heartwood Chorus.
And pizza fresh from the oven and tea and cake and all this while supporting our community garden!
Last winter we built replacement beds over in the old decking area (thanks Patrick!) and decided that a good use for them would be to grow food for Family Food Action at the Ardagh. FFA is an innovative North Bristol charity working to mitigate and raise awareness of family food poverty. They collect donated food through a network of neighbourhood collectors (covering more than 50 streets). FFA volunteers then sort and deliver donations to 4 community organisations who work directly with families and children in areas of high deprivation. If you’re local and don’t know about them then definitely look them up and see if your street is involved! We now collect surplus vegetables from the plotholders on our allotment site and we have had a really great response with piles of spuds, beans, green leaves and of course many many courgettes and marrows. It’s not something that we’ve done before as their collection day is not on our volunteer day but with the current cost of living crisis it’s definitely feels like a time when if we can do more to help support folks who need it then we definitely should.
THE SPRING FAIR!!! IT’S HERE!!! You’re no doubt already planning to come but if you need a bit of convincing let me what we have going on and the many many reasons that you should come and bring everyone you know. And if you’re busy…. send along your friends and family and why not give next door a knock to make sure they’re coming as well?!
You can expect live music from not one but TWO choirs AND and morris dancing from the excellent Pigsty Morris AND music from the epic What the Folks?! As well as spellbinding tales told by our storyteller. We’ve got helps of plants to sell at great prices including veg, flowers, herbs and house plants and our fabulous volunteers on hand to give some advice about how to grow them!
We’ve got heaps going on for kids (and the young at heart!) including pond dipping, origami, face painting, crown making and a massive junk drumming work shop – ALL FREE!! And also grown ups who fancy a bit of creativity you’ve not been forgotten – you can weave willow to make yourself a May crown or get involved with the ever fabulous Sheena Vallely’s art workshop to transform our shed!
Our site is wheelchair accessible, including the toilet and we’ll have a play worker in our lovely cool straw bale building making sure that there is a quiet space and sensory haven for anyone that would like it.
The entry price is tiered adults £4/£2, children £2/£1 or so dig deep if you can or just come along and pay what you can! And we don’t have a card machines so please bring cash and if you brought your own cup as well that’d be grand.
See you at the fair
Lucy
Lucy Mitchell
Community Project Worker
07506 905 394 ghcgarden@gmail.com
It’s our first spring fair and big fundraiser in 3 years so I hope you can make it! It’s 1pm-4pm Saturday 14th May and you can expect live music, choirs and morris dancing, loads of free activities for children AND grown ups, a lovely big plant sale, delicious pizza fresh from the oven and cakes and a great time. There’ll be an indoor quiet sensory play space and our site and toilet are wheelchair accessible. So please come along and tell your friends!
The entry price is tiered adults £4/£2, children £2/£1 or just come along and pay what you can! And we don’t have a card machines so please bring cash and if you brought your own cup as well that’d be grand.
And if you have any spare plants to donate – FAB! or if you can bake us a cake that’d be brilliant! Or if you have any time to help on the day you’d be very very welcome. Just let me know 🙂
AND our new pond is an absolute beaut! You can cone and admire it at the fair. We are all in love with it – also so are all the local birds! On Tuesday I counted 7 in there at once from a fledgling blackbird to a long tail tit, all enjoying a flappy bath and a drink. Sometime the crows pop down for a good dunk – in and out and up in a tree to shake off and have a good preen. The tadpoles are long gone but hey ho – turns out the wildlife had a different plan.
See you in the garden!
Lucy
Lucy Mitchell
Community Project Worker
t: 07506 905 394 e: ghcgarden@gmail.com
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. We have secateurs and gloves but please bring your own if you have some. Also we’ll have heaps and heaps of lovely winter foliage but PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE if you have a garden with nice berry bits, or evergreen branches, or pretty twiddly ivy, or see any on your way that is available then please bring a bag along so it’ll just make the day more lovely for everyone
Dogs on leads are welcome and so are children, and if under 16s want to make their own wreath then it’s just £7.50 but they need to be booked on. It should take about an hour and every wreath is unique and gorgeous. The session is a week earlier than normal (because of my bro getting married) but by the end of the workshop you’ll be confident in adding extra bits of greenery if you needed them to keep your wreath looking lovely for weeks.
Last year we made up wreath kits for folks who couldn’t make it to a session – i.e all the willow, foliage, ribbon and bits and bobs you need to make a wreath at home. I’ll do this again for £10 if we’ve got enough willow and there’s enough interest so let me know if that would work better for you.
Lucy
Lucy Mitchell
Community Project Worker
07506 905 394
ghcgarden@gmail.com
We’ve got a Facebook page if you’d like more regular updates and pics
I’ve got some exciting garden news – we are going ahead with our first event in aaaaggees! We’ll be having our ….
Bonfire and Fundraiser on Saturday 6th November 6-7:30pm!
And it’d would be great if you could come along! We’ll be selling scrumptious cake and delicious samosas as well as mulled apple juice and cider. And we will of course be in the perfect place to watch Bishop Rd School’s amazing firework display. (Don’t worry, the lovely people over there know that we run this little event alongside theirs and they don’t mind – in fact one of the organisers said they like knowing that we’re here over the hedge loving it!)
This is so we can make sure we limit the number and give people plenty of space and also to answer concerns of parents who’ve been turned away in previous years when we’ve filled up very quickly. The tickets cost £1, 3, or £5. We really need to raise some money as we haven’t been able to have any events for so long! so please dig deep and buy the more expensive ticket if you can! but we don’t want to turn anyone away due to lack of funds so ther are still £1 tickets available.
We’ll be selling hot drinks, mulled cider, samosas and cakes please bring cash as we can’t take cards.
If we haven’t sold out we will be selling tickets on the gate but check here on or facebook to make sure before you come along.
See you by the bonfire, under the night sky:)
Lucy
Lucy Mitchell
Community Project Worker
07506 905 394
ghcgarden@gmail.com
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