Sims Hill CSA will hold its Community Celebration of Spring on March 24, as a joint do with the Barton Hill Community Walled Garden crew, at the Walled Garden. Venue: the Walled Garden, 60 Barton Hill Rd, BS5 0AW Date: Saturday 24 March 2012 Time: 11am -3pm Activities will include an apple tree grafting workshop … Continue reading Next community celebration 24 March!

There will be a hedge planting workday on the plot this Saturday 3 March from 10 to 1. Please bring spades. Hedge: crab apple, hazel, dog rose, hawthorn. We have 800 whips to plant with 20 permaculture students. We hope to see you there!

The Mermaid Conference and Events Centre Puddle Dock Blackfriars EC4V 3DB London United Kingdom Tuesday, 20 March 2012 from 09:30 to 16:45 *FINAL PROGRAMME ANNOUNCED! Download here!* Tim Lang, Professor of Food Policy at City University has added his name to a roll call of top names at a landmark event that will debate the … Continue reading Making Local Food our Future Conference in London 20 March (free!)

Even if we buy certified organic or fair trade marked products it is still very hard to avoid long and large retail chains which contribute to the pressure to industrialise and exploit human and non-human alike somewhere along the line. The idea of fair trade products in a supermarket is somewhat of a contradiction in … Continue reading A different way to spend – CSA style

at the Walled Garden, 60 Barton Hill Rd, BS5 0AW Saturday 4th February 2012 11am -3pm Tours of the walled garden Bring and share food in the courtyard Competition : "most unusual use of your veg share?" Sims Hill in pictures – the story so far – what's next? Seed stories – from the seed … Continue reading Sims Hill Spring Party 4 February at the Walled Garden!

Another tasty soup recipe (this time from member Kate Whittle): I bought some caraway seeds yesterday for a herbal tea mixture I'm experimenting with (mint, fennel seeds, chamomile & caraway seeds - good after dinner drink) so when I saw Hugh Fearlessly's recipe for cabbage and caraway seed soup in Saturday's grauniad I thought I'd … Continue reading Cabbage and caraway soup!

From Sims Hill member Carla Denyer, who says: Confronted with huge numbers of carrots and cooking apples from Sims Hill recently, I made an autumn stew last night which was a massive hit. Serves 5 on its own, or 8 with side dishes of mashed potato (skins on) and steamed kale. Ingredients: 2 onions 6 … Continue reading Sims Hill apple and autumn veg stew

Here are a few pictures from our apple pressing at the Community Day on 8 October. Enjoy!

Many of you will remember the blue skies and shimmering heat of planting our potatoes; Well, on saturday we will be lifting them, there, potatoes. It wil be "The more the merrier" digging up this buried treasure, so if you can, come along! We will be there from 10am till 1pm, maybe longer. Please wear … Continue reading Lifting Potatoes on Saturday