Sims Hill Shared Harvest

Sims Hill Shared Harvest Member-owned Community Supported Agriculture project in North Bristol What is a CSA? This may include subsidized membership for members on low incomes.
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A CSA is a popular farming model where the members come together and invest in the running of the farm and receive a share of the Harvest, as opposed to being customers who pay for specific products. The budget for the farm and what members contribute is negotiated, seeking to establish a fair and transparent deal for all concerned. There are many CSAs now running in the USA and the UK which are b

ased on the model of the grower owning and managing the land and business. We are hoping to be one of the first CSAs where the project will be owned and run by its members on an equal basis with the growers. We are exploring the potential legal and organisational methods to allow this to happen. The site has been worked as pasture for the last 30 years, but before that was just one of the many thriving market gardens that supplied food for the city. Sims Hill Shared Harvest is determined to help bring this land back into active food production. The site:
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Who we are:
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This week, our new grower Jo Poulton started on the farm. Jo comes to us with ample experience in growing in many diffe...
31/10/2024

This week, our new grower Jo Poulton started on the farm. Jo comes to us with ample experience in growing in many different climates, including Scotland and Australia. She is a founder of the Basic Income for Farmers campaign which has been gaining a great deal of traction this summer. We are excited to have her here. She will be covering Maddy over the winter and will eventually replace Petra in February 2025 who is leaving us to go on an adventure!
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The corporate food system, led by supermarket chains and agribusiness, forces us to consume more low-quality ultra-proce...
18/10/2024

The corporate food system, led by supermarket chains and agribusiness, forces us to consume more low-quality ultra-processing food (UPF) and high-emission crops by reshaping our food culture and consumption habits.
Join the Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) movement to regain our food sovereignty and reestablish a community food system based on relationships.
What is CSA anyway? Please come along to our open meeting next Thursday, 24 October from 6-7.30pm at St Werburghs Community Farm to find out more and become a CSA member.
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The Bristol Local Food Fund Just announced the second round of funding for 19 community food projects tackling food inse...
18/09/2024

The Bristol Local Food Fund Just announced the second round of funding for 19 community food projects tackling food insecurity in Bristol. We are delighted to be one of them. We committed to providing land access and delivering horticultural sessions to people affected by the asylum process in order to share knowledge, reduce isolation, promote leadership and enhance environmental awareness.
See more here: https://www.bristollocalfoodfund.com/blog/funding-round-2
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It’s that time of the month already! We will be harvesting SQUASH ready to store over the winter. Who needs LBT classes ...
13/09/2024

It’s that time of the month already! We will be harvesting SQUASH ready to store over the winter. Who needs LBT classes when you have squash?

We’ll be at the big field - follow the Google Maps directions to Sims Hill Shared Harvest - we will put out a sign so you know where to go!
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We’re having a DIY pesto pasta party so get involved and come and have some pesto and pasta while the basil is rife. Ple...
28/08/2024

We’re having a DIY pesto pasta party so get involved and come and have some pesto and pasta while the basil is rife. Please confirm attendance so we don’t make too much pasta. And ask if we can accommodate your dietary requirements. We will be at our site at Grow Wilder, 6.30 PM on the 5th of September. See you there.
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Save the date! Come along, bring your pals, enjoy Sims Hill at its most rambunctious time of year. We will be cooking up...
05/08/2024

Save the date! Come along, bring your pals, enjoy Sims Hill at its most rambunctious time of year. We will be cooking up some food grown on the farm, there will be cider on tap, and some welly wanging too.

Volunteer session at 10.30 am, food from 1.30 pm
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Sims Hill is recruiting for a part-time grower!We are looking for a grower with an understanding of and commitment to CS...
28/07/2024

Sims Hill is recruiting for a part-time grower!

We are looking for a grower with an understanding of and commitment to CSA values, the prospective grower will be a member of a three-person grower team responsible for the planning, production and delivery of members’ vegetable shares and wholesale vegetable orders, as well as developing relationships with partners and new potential customers.
For details:

Status: Part-time fixed term contract (October 2024 – February 2026) Start date: 2nd October 2024 Hours: 5 Winter months (Oct-Feb) 2.5 days per week 7 Summer months (Mar-Oct) 3 days per week.…

Almost time again for our monthly volunteer day. Come along, help out, plenty to do. Share with your pals. Make sure you...
17/07/2024

Almost time again for our monthly volunteer day. Come along, help out, plenty to do. Share with your pals. Make sure you go to our site at Grow Wilder: 181 Frenchay Park Rd, Bristol BS16 1EL🐞

Take a look at these interesting findings from a recent member survey results published by the CSA Network UK. The numbe...
09/07/2024

Take a look at these interesting findings from a recent member survey results published by the CSA Network UK. The number of CSA farms has grown to over 230 in the UK. These CSAs produce fresh, agroecologically grown food for on average 66 households, that is the equivalent of feeding over 15,000 households. On average CSAs farm on just 3.19 hectares of land. The results paint a picture of the important impact of CSA in our community.
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❤️Food and love and love and food ❤️
20/06/2024

❤️Food and love and love and food ❤️

📸🍲 Today is World Refugee Day! 🌍❤️

Here at the Coexist Community Kitchen we believe in the power of food to bring people together. Our free cookery programmes help refugees and asylum seekers feel at home in Bristol. Enabling them to share their incredible stories, skills, knowledge and culture with us, and giving them a space to connect with new friends.

Our community is so much richer with them in it, and we will forever stand for everyone’s right to movement. To a home, to belonging and to dignity.

Love to all who come through our doors! You bring us so much joy - THANK YOU! 🥰

Come along to our soil connections group - weekly horticultural sessions at Sims Hill - travel expenses paid. Thursdays ...
19/06/2024

Come along to our soil connections group - weekly horticultural sessions at Sims Hill - travel expenses paid. Thursdays are always a good funny day at Sims, come along and try it out! Please share with anyone you know who might be interested.
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Join The Spark Space for the movie screening of “Six Inches of Soil” followed by a panel discussion. This event is part ...
19/06/2024

Join The Spark Space for the movie screening of “Six Inches of Soil” followed by a panel discussion. This event is part of Food Justice Fortnight with Feeding Bristol CIO. Tickets are still available, don't miss it.

Join The Spark Space for a movie screening of “Six Inches of Soil” followed by a panel discussion. This event is part of Food Justice Fortnight. The inspiring story of British farmers standing up against the industrial food system and transforming the way they produce food – to heal the soil, ...

Before our management team re-discuss the idea of adding another pick-up point, we reposted this message to ask for your...
12/06/2024

Before our management team re-discuss the idea of adding another pick-up point, we reposted this message to ask for your suggestions.
For many years, our vegetables have been delivered to seven pick-up points in Bristol (St Werburghs, Easton, Bishopston, Fishponds, Windmill Hill, Frenchay & St. George). Recently, we have thought of adding a new pick-up point to capture the residential and demographic changes. Please contact us if you have any suggestions or know of any neighbours who might be interested in joining us to taste locally grown fresh vegetables.

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Come and join us to get our squash in the ground! It is desperate to get in so bring your hands, bring your lunch and jo...
07/06/2024

Come and join us to get our squash in the ground! It is desperate to get in so bring your hands, bring your lunch and join us from 10.30 on Sunday at the big field. Follow signs to sims hill. This is not an accessible site and there aren’t toilets so come prepared!

05/06/2024
Every week, we will put a paper note in your vegetable bag to keep you updated about the situations in our farm, introdu...
30/05/2024

Every week, we will put a paper note in your vegetable bag to keep you updated about the situations in our farm, introducing recipes for the crops and community events. This time, the message is rather unusual.
Our growers are looking for a petrol mower and some old skateboards. The idea is to sit on the skateboards and roll down the aisles of tomatoes/aubergines/peppers/peas to speed up the harvest and avoid hurting their backs. Please leave us a message here if you have any of them.

Don’t forget to join us for a volunteer day this Sunday (May 19) at our site on Grow Wilder 10.30-1.30
17/05/2024

Don’t forget to join us for a volunteer day this Sunday (May 19) at our site on Grow Wilder 10.30-1.30

You may have discovered an unusual vegetable in our veggie bag last week--ORIENTAL MANOKO, some called them Chinese cabb...
15/05/2024

You may have discovered an unusual vegetable in our veggie bag last week--ORIENTAL MANOKO, some called them Chinese cabbage.
It is a very popular crop in Asia, which forms dense hearts when mature. In North China, this is a traditional vegetable for storing over the winter and always being used for chilli hotpot. The Koreans often used it for making delicious Kimchi. Manoko pairs well with miso soup and tofu in Japanese recipes. According to Chinese medicine, Manoko might improve your appetite.
We hope you enjoy trying different cultural recipes. This is also new to our growers and Sarah’s magic is to give them more love.

Ingredients
• 1 tbsp brown miso paste
• 100g tofu
• sliced Manoko
• chopped coriander
• dried seaweed

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Sims Hill, Feed Bristol, 181 Frenchay Park Road
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How to get to sims hill - enter via grow wilder

Fritto misto - with Sims Hill veg
Fritto misto - with Sims Hill veg

Our aubergines are prolific this year - what can you do with your summer produce? Here is an idea from Two Tree's ( Pitchfork Cafe )- we were cooking Sims Hill aubergines and courgettes in the garden. Fritto Misto - 1. Cut vegetables into sticks. 2. Coat in plain flour 3. Dip in soya milk 3. Coat in breadcrumbs 4. Fry until golden. What have you been cooking with your Sims Hill produce? We would love to hear- tag us in your photos. #bristolfood #communitysupportedagriculture #localfood #agroecology #community #nofoodwaste

Pollinators
Pollinators

The flower strips between our squash plantings are full of life. Phacelia is the flower of the season at the farm. Flower strips are fantastic for encouraging pollinators and beneficial insects. We are growing biodiversity and food hand in hand. #bristolfood #communitysupportedagriculture #pollinators #bees #agroecology

Our field is filling up and crops coming on well. The leeks and onions are growing well- with our new comb harrow - tractor based weeding through the beds is improving our weed management.

In the market garden We have been subsoiling at Sims Hill this week to address compaction issues. We have now sown a long term ley green manure on the plot - a mix of clovers and rye grass.

Two and a half crates of rocket cut this morning! As well as chard, radishes, spring onions and lettuces - a salad lover's paradise! Go get your shares now while it's all crunchy and fresh, its all in there, and more... Please rinse the produce before you tuck in and watch out for little slugs in amongst the salad leaves, they love it as much as we do.

Water April 2020
Water April 2020

Much of our irrigation is done using spriklers which are efficient at spreading water around, for instance inside the polytunnel, or across a large area. There's a manual side to this work too, especially when the water needs to be more carefully directed to particular areas and crops. Here our onions are getting some special attention.

The team received tonnes of compost this week to create the beds in the new polytunnel. Check it out!

Sims Hill Shared Harvest - Operation Tractor!
Sims Hill Shared Harvest - Operation Tractor!

Operation Tractor is go! Please support our crowdfunder campaign for tools and a second hand tractor to help us become more efficient, reach more families and contribute to the local food revolution! Please share far and wide - we can't do this without you :) http://bit.ly/operationtractor

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Sims Hill Shared Harvest is a pioneering social enterprise growing food for the people of Bristol just four miles from the city centre. We are a community supported agriculture (CSA) cooperative project. We aim to:


  • Provide quality fruit and vegetable, grown using natural farming methods;

  • Offer opportunities for education, work and recreation to the wider community;

  • Work to include and support people who are socially or economically marginalised;

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