Dig Bristol Get Growing Campaign
Posted on 03 February 2011
The Dig Bristol ‘Get Growing’ Map promotes alternatives to traditional garden or allotment growing, as part of the city-regions’ campaign to get more people involved in urban veg production.Do you want to get mucky in a Community Garden? Or learn to look after chickens at a City Farm? Ever wanted to pluck your own apple from a Shared Orchard? The Bristol ’Get Growing’ Map has put all this information in one easy to use online map, making it simple for people to find peaceful city sanctuaries and social garden spaces on their cities’ doorstep.
The Dig Bristol urban growing campaign is run by Bristol Food Network, an umbrella group, made up of individuals, community projects, organisations and businesses who share a vision to transform the Bristol city-region into a sustainable food city.
The map reveals the huge range of community gardening projects growing across Bristol with different icons for city farms, community orchards, community projects and gardens and community supported agriculture projects. Each clickable icon has information on each project, what they are doing and how to get in touch. If the user likes what they read then each project has a highlighted section telling them how to get involved and take their own bite of Bristol’s home grown food.
Accompanying the map is the ‘Bite into Bristol’ Guide to help people volunteer their time with a community garden, city farm or orchard.
The Guide helps direct people to the right community growing project for them with questions like: Do you want to support local food, buy it, eat it without getting muddy? Do you want help and advice for you in your own garden? Do you want to get involved with a community group? Do you want to set up your own group?
Together the Dig Bristol Map and Guide aims to help more people take a bite of the cities’ home grown food culture and make the most of what Bristol’s diverse city region has to offer.
There are skills to learn, friends to find and a home grown urban harvest to share!
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I’m from Ashley Down Allotments and we have discovered a batch of old gardening tools – rakes, forks etc that need a good home. Would anybody have a use for them? They are quite rusty but a good sanding/sharpening would fix that. We’d love to donate them to someone who could find a use for them.
Thanks
Hi Catriona
I’m a teacher at Ashton Park School in South Bristol and we are hoping to start a school garden from September with the students growing fruit and vegetables to use in the school. We are just in the planning stage but would be very grateful to receive any garden tools, if you still have them available. Let me know and I can come and collect.
Thanks