Some upcoming events from other Bristol organisations you might be interested in:
Thingloop, a Bristol start-up promoting sharing and collaborative consumption
How to set up a food-buying group, 7th July (registration form)
Herb walks, May-October
Invasive weed pulling, 17th July
Community-supported agriculture project at Frenchay
Entries Tagged as 'green spaces'
Community notices
May 27th, 2010 · No Comments · General
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Urban Greening: May update
May 12th, 2010 · 4 Comments · General
Please see here for an update on what we’ve been up to so far.
The next outdoor session will be Sat 29th May 10am to 3pm in Picton Square. Come and tell us what you like and don’t like about urban greening so far, and what you want to see in the future!
The next planning meeting [...]
Montpelier Park: Progress Report, March 2010
March 26th, 2010 · 4 Comments · Parks
It’s been a busy month!
Planning permission has been applied for the whole Park, and is currently being considered. The plan submitted is here. It is due to be decided upon by the end of April. The work has been put out to tender, and prices are due to come back in the [...]
Growing group: meeting 25th March
March 26th, 2010 · No Comments · Food, General, Green Spaces, Minutes, Parks
We didn’t take full minutes, but a flavour of the evening is below. Shiona, Sally, Lucy, Steve, Karen, Ingrid, Esther, Simon, Danny, Chris, Claudia, David and Mima attended.
The Mapping Day on Sunday went very well, with about 30 people in attendance and everyone enjoying the walk and cakes. Many people felt uncomfortable identifying gardens as [...]
Tags:bristol·Food·green spaces·montpelier·park·Picton Square
Montpelier Growing Group Resources
March 21st, 2010 · 3 Comments · Food, General, Green Spaces, Parks
The Growing Group is currently identifying spaces in Montpelier to plant trees, fruits, vegetables and wildlife friendly plants. We welcome all residents to get involved.
As well as our most valuable resource – people power (!) – we are also in need of materials to transform these spaces. If you have anything to offer, [...]
Tags:bean·feast·Food·green spaces·growing·montpelier·park·Picton Square·resources·street·sustainable
Montpelier Mapping Day: 21 March
February 27th, 2010 · No Comments · Food, General, Green Spaces, Parks
The Food and Green Spaces Group (snappier name to follow!) met on Thursday 25th Feb for another very positive discussion. We focussed on the logistics for our upcoming Mapping Day, Sunday 21 March, meeting outside Gallifords/Bells Diner at 11 to start. All are welcome, particularly families, and we will have a variety of free goodies [...]
Summary of Open Meeting – Fairfield resource centre Feb 10th
February 20th, 2010 · No Comments · General
We had another well attended and interesting meeting. Over 55 people attended, donating £17.26 towards expenses. Thanks to all who participated, helped clear up, have written up summaries, baked cakes and buscuits, agreed to take on treasurer and bookkeeping roles for Transition Montpelier and all other actions, and Kassin and his team for the use [...]
Chronic underfunding of Montpelier’s parks
February 18th, 2010 · 3 Comments · General
Montpelier Park Group and Albany Green Residents Group have joined forces to pressurise the Council into taking responsibility for the dreadful state of Montpelier’s only green spaces.
The Parks Department have been dragging their heels and giving both groups the run around. We have written this letter to Jon Rogers to get him to try to [...]
Food: discussion summary from open meeting 10/02/10
February 18th, 2010 · No Comments · Food, General, Parks, Projects
At the Open Meeting on 10th Feb we had a really enthusiastic and idea filled discussion about sustainable food in Montpelier! As Energy was the hot hot topic of the night we had a small group, but we’re sure there are plenty of other people who would be interested, both from the Energy discussion and [...]
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Green Spaces: group summary from TM 10/02
February 12th, 2010 · 2 Comments · General
Thank you to everyone for such a diverse, positive and interesting discussion!
We began by introducing ourselves and sharing what ideas excite us about the idea of a Green Spaces group, which was remarkable in that everyone had different reasons to be excited about it, and that those reasons spanned the immediate to the long term, [...]
