We have been awarded £8000 by Tesco but if we publicize the project successfully and Tesco customers in our region vote for us we can be in line for up to £12000. The next paragraphs are Tesco’s official explanation of how it all works.
Tesco has teamed up with Groundwork on its Bags of Help initiative in hundreds of regions across England and Wales. The scheme will see three community groups and projects in each of these regions awarded grants of £12,000, £10,000 and £8,000 – all raised from the 5p bag charge.
Bags of Help offers community groups and projects in each of Tesco’s 416 regions across the UK a share of revenue generated from the 5p charge levied on single-use carrier bags. The public will now vote in store from 31st October – 13th November on who should receive the £12,000, £10,000 and £8,000 awards. In total, there is over £12.5 million up for grabs.
On the 6th of August Chris Carroll held a Fruit Tree pruning workshop . The basics of fruit pruning was practically demonstrated with a focus on apple trees. Varieties of apple cordons were then pruned by everyone who attended the session. People commentated that they felt more confident to prune their own trees afterwards.
On Saturday 20th August Ludmila Draxlerová gave a fascinating talk on Herbs and their Uses with an insight into their medicinal properties.
Ludmila started experimenting with herbs – observing, and comparing results – from early childhood in her native Slovakia. We heard how she saved her school friend the pain of having warts burnt off by treating them with Greater Celandine. And how between one spring and winter she successfully treated her mother’s gall stones with Agrimony. And then as a mother herself, how she made her own St. John’s Wort tincture and oil to relieve her children’s itchy chicken pox.
Ludmila answered all the questions we threw at her – from what books to read, which herbs to use for our own ailments to the impact of pharmaceutical companies on generations of knowledge being lost.
She showed us a selection of her own tinctures and mixtures. And we finished with a stroll round the garden looking at, touching and smelling many of the wonderful herbs she’d talked about.
In conjunction with Blaise Castle Museum hosting Goram fair, the Garden will be open on the
30th of July with fun activities.
Goram Fair is a community event and funfair celebrating the legend of Bristol’s giant Goram which ran from 1954 to 1996.
At Blaise Community Garden 12pm – 4pm . There will be :
Small and large scarecrow making
Cakes and Refreshments
A chance to explore the garden , see the new pictorial meadow, Bee garden and progress on the pond.
Find out more about what is happening on the day and what to wear! https://www.bristolmuseums.org.uk/blaise-castle-house-museum/whats-on/goram-fair/. Their are all sorts of stalls, activities and vintage funfairs supplied by Albert Rogers Funfairs, who were part of the 1950s fair.
It was another great annual get growing event on the weekend of the 4th and 5th of June 2016. Thankyou to all the visitors who came to explore the gardens and all the volunteers that helped out to make it a great success. We had all sorts activities going on including scarecrow making with Alistair , mini beast hunting with Mick, mini magic gardens with Helen and sign paintings for the garden with Kate. There was alot of growing going on too ,with visitors planting leeks and vegetables and to name but a few volunteers -Kim was hard at work getting the tomatoes in and Sally planting strawberries. A huge plant Sale run by Ludmilla and Sally raised a great amount too which will be put back into the garden to buy seeds for next year. We hope next year can be just as successful.
Mick Teaching bug Identifying
Everyone was interested in looking at the bugs!
Kim busy tomatoe planting
Kim and Ludmilla doing great work getting all the tomatoes in.
Sally busy tending to the strawberries
Happy plant buyers!
Everybody getting involved with planting
Having great fun with the Scarecrow making
Scarecrow making!
Planting Sweetcorn
Barbeque time!
Ludmilla at the plant sale tables
Plants for sale
Sally and Ludmilla doing a great job on plant sales
Having a well deserved cuppa!
Some of the Volunteers of the Garden
The making of the Garden signs. Kate allowed on the jigsaw!
Garden signs decorated byy children visiting over the weekend
The Bristol Get Growing Trail is happening again for 2016 !
There will be a Plant Sale. There will also be refreshments, a Barbecue at Mid day and cake sale.
The garden will have lots of activities for all the family. Come and get involved in decorating colourful signs and totempoles to brighten up the garden. Make your mark with your own handprints and turn your thumb prints into fun beasties and animals to cover the signs. There will also be seeding a wildflower meadow strip and more!
The Bristol Get Growing Trail is part of 20 of Bristol’s Secret fruit & veg gardens that will open their gates to visitors.
Blaise Community garden will be open 11.00am – 4.00pm both days. From the 4th – 5th of June.
Hope to see you there !
(Here’s a sneak preview of one the totempoles…hopefully we will have a giant tree and bee signs to decorate this weekend too!)
Garden will be open on the
