Bike workshops – new sessions
We have delivered over 15 bicycle workshops so far in 2010, all of them helpful and enjoyable, and all resulting in bikes being serviced & fixed whilst their owners learn new skills – thanks to everyone who’s booked in and taken part so far!
You can now book bike workshop sessions for May – see the bike workshop page for dates & booking details
VOLUNTEERS: Please contact us if you’d like to join in as a tutor, offering your skills to others. You can shadow a current volunteer initially, and then let us know when you’re ready to go solo!
Bedminster – Hours & Payments
109-111 Chessel Street, Bristol BS3 3HB
PLEASE NOTE: we do not have credit card facilities, so we’re cash payments only currently
There are cash points on North Street, just a short walk away
PHONE : Please call 07790 759748 and leave a message if we can’t answer
SHOP HOURS:
Saturdays 10-4pm; other days by appointment (please call)
Please call or email queries or to request access to the shop if you cannot call in on a Saturday – the messages will be collected regularly and replied to, and we will arrange access to suit wherever possible.
Bristol Seed Swap 2010
Heritage Seed Library Seeds (HSL)
We have seeds donated from the HSL including climbing french bean Kew Blue, tomato Queen of Hearts and Pea Latvian. Heritage Seed Library aims to conserve and make available vegetable varieties that are not widely available. The HSL maintains a collection, mainly of European varieties. Over the decades many varieties have been dropped from popular seed catalogues. Our collection contains many of these but also some landraces and a large number of family heirloom varieties that have never been in a catalogue. We are not a gene bank and all our collection, once we have enough seed will become available to our members.
http://www.gardenorganic.org.uk/hsl/
Two Wild Food Walks with Andy Hamilton.
The co-author of The Selfsufficientish Bible. He writes a budget gardening column for Kitchen Garden a wild food column for flavour magazine and a outdoor column for the Bristol Magazine. He also works as a freelance features writer and has had articles published for the Guardian, the Ecologist, Home Farmer and Ethical Living. He has also appeared on BBC Breakfast, BBC inside out, BBC Politics Show, BBC Points West, BBC Inside out, ITV’s west tonight, RTE’s Baz’s Culture Clash and ARTE’s Global Magazine; radio appearances include R4’s the Today program, R4’s Farming Today, various times on Radio Bristol and other local stations.
Windmill Hill City Farm Garden Team
The Farm Garden Team and running a stall selling fruit bushes they have propogated plants that they have grown, there very effective comfrey juice fertilizer and some other things.
http://www.windmillhillcityfarm.org.uk/farm-and-gardens/community-gardens.html
Eastside Roots Plant Stall
Eeatside Roots are bringing a selection of fruit trees fruit bushes herbs and seedlings and seed potatoes for sale to help support there community garden centre. Eastside Roots is creating a community gardening hub for Easton & the wider Bristol community, by renovating derelict land next to Stapleton Road train station & transforming it into a safe, social, positive, thriving green space & community resource. The green space at Trinity Centre is also being transformed into a flourishing garden with edible & flowering plants.
http://www.eastsideroots.org.uk/
Garden Share Bristol
This is a local initiative linking up people who have an unused corner of their garden with local committed growers. The benefits for the garden owners include a share of the produce, the pleasure of seeing a lovely developing vegetable plot, and the sense of community in being part of a sharing initiative. Find out more on the day at there stall.
http://gardensharebristol.blogspot.com/
Transition BS3
The local Transition group that have 2 community smallholdings find out more about what the group is doing and how to get involved.
http://www.transitionbs3.co.uk/
Safe Land For Bees
Bristol’s Peak Oil Report
Peak Oil Report
A local resident and member of Transition BS3, (an online editor covering peak oil issues), has recently co-authored a report entitled “‘Building a positive future for Brisol after Peak Oil’”, commissioned by The Green Capital Momentum Group and Bristol City Council. You can read the report here
Peak Oil Exhibition
There is a supporting exhibition on at the CREATE Centre (we’re featured!), until July 2010. Details here
Veer film showing – 2nd Feb @ CREATE
Jan /Feb opening
Our Chessel Street shop will only be open on Saturdays throughout January and February, while we carry out improvements and developments inside the shop ready for our expanded ranges for spring 2010. If you need access at other times it can be arranged by phoning 07790 759748
Two volunteers, Roger and Macky, will be manning the shop during these weeks while I work on the next phase with our partners, including Stoves Online and L.I.L.I. Thank you very much to you guys for making this possible.
Any general or product queries can continue to be sent via email, (info@bristolgreenstore.co.uk) and I will get back to you with as much information as possible.
A big thank you to all of our customers for your understanding during this next phase, and I look forward to showing you the extended offering in the spring, with new products and new partners joining in the fun and helping us get to grips with our practical, affordable eco refits!
Bike Workshops for 2010
New sessions starting Jan Starting 21st
‘Do it Together’ Bike Maintenance Workshops @ The Space, with Alex
[Please contact us if you would like to hold an event, or suggest an event, in The Space, Bedminster]
Lovely Drinks – yes please!
The latest local addition to our Food Group catalogue are the range of locally-made juices from Lovely Drinks, over in Barrow Gurney.
Victoria has just dropped off a generous number of tasting samples ready for our next meet-up, including a hot apple & ginger (well, it will be hot once we’ve warmed it up in the slow cooker) – thanks very much, Lovely Drinks, we look forward to tasting them!
Ode to LILI
Many people feel so appreciative of the information and inspiration they get from LILI (the Low Impact Living Initiative, one of our partners in the store) that they write in and say thanks. This week one of their website fans felt so thankful, she decided to write a poem for them! We thought we’d reproduce it here to show our agreement with the sentiments!
Thank you for your website
thank you for all the inspiration
thank you for the pictures and photographs
thank you for the information
Thank you for all the beauty
thank you for everything you show
thank you for starting my vegetable garden
thank you for letting me take it slow
I just love to visit your website and getting inspired on how to do things and I wanted to let you know.
Sanne Klerks
(Maastricht, Netherlands)
Visit the LILI website to discover their information and inspiration for yourself.
You can also book on LILI one-day courses here in Bristol, and support Windmill Hill City Farm
