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CG Blenheim Gardens Edible Estate

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Incorporating a variety of growing activities on a Brixton Estate

Location: Brixton Hill
Members: 19
Latest Activity: Jan 30

Welcome to our project page...!

Email: BGEdibleEstate@gmail.com
Photo Gallery: http://www.flickr.com/photos/35609059@N08/sets/
Project Set-Up Blog: http://www.projectdirt.com/profiles/blog/list?user=2gx07ivw13v63
How to get started with your own community growing project in Lambeth: growers pack.pdf

To find out more about how the project got started you can read Bonnie's blog on Project Dirt and you can see some 'before and after' pics on our Flikr sets. There's a video below made by Felix (YouAndISkills.com) of the young people at the Clapham Youth Centre during their Easter project below... and we've been on TV as well (BBC Hampton Court Flower show) and have been mentioned in both local and international press! Woo hoo!

This page is to give interested people a place to go to find out more and as a contact point for Friends and Residents to self-organise. We'll use this page to post up any news or developments and to let members of the project know when future workdays and events are happening. Also please feel free to use it to contact the project and ask any questions not answered in the blog about how we got started or sourced materials etc... We are based in Brixton so a lot of our contacts and experience are south London based, but some are London wide. We were instrumental in developing the Transition Town Brixton Community Growing Pack which is full of useful tips and resources - the draft pdf (30/10/09) can be found above.

Map of where some of our growing areas on the estate are - feel free to visit and have a look around on your own

Discussion Forum

What's Growing?

Started by Bonnie May. 31, 2009.

Blenheim Gardens total area for growing food is 424.65 sq. m. aproximately 2 Replies

Started by Oscar Giuseppe Martinez Fabris. Last reply by Oscar Giuseppe Martinez Fabris May. 12, 2009.

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Comment by Bonnie on January 30, 2010 at 10:31pm: We went with the one recommended by Capital Growth and got a good deal through a deal they had with them. They cover Public and employers liability which is useful and also covered us for working in people's private gardens (a la Garden Share) - you'd have to contact BGEdibleEstate@gmail.com or the Captial Growth team at Sustain to find out which company it was as i can't recall

Comment by Sue on January 29, 2010 at 6:17pm: Have you tried the Federation of City Farms and Community Gardens? They recommend a company called Towergate. On their website it says for a quotation or further information please contact Lynn Jennings or David Still 0113 391 9403 or 0113 391 9413 or email david.still@towergate.co.uk
All the best
Sue

Comment by Mike Wohl on January 26, 2010 at 11:34pm: Hi,
Do you have recommendations about Public Liability Insurance?....I paid £180 last season ( covering around 30 growers, chidren and up to three special events a year), but due to the forthcoming extra strands of work in the pipeline this may go up. My current company is Tennyson. Thanks

Comment by Bonnie on November 3, 2009 at 12:41pm: Come and plant a Guinness World Record
Saturday 5th December 11am – 12 noon
Blenheim Gardens Edible Estate: between the Children's Garden and The Meadow (windmill end of the estate)

Are you ready to grow something seriously groundbreaking? To help celebrate National Tree Week, Blenheim Gardens Edible Estate have teamed up with BBC Breathing Places to attempt to break a Guinness World Record for Tree O’Clock: a nationwide challenge to plant more than 600,000 trees within a single hour (11am-12 noon on 5th December).

That’s a heck of a lot of trees in just one hour which is why we need your help to muck in and to come and help us plant our 8 or so trees within the hour. To count towards the world record every tree must be planted between 11am and 12 noon. So grab your wellies and come and help us plant a brand new Guinness World Record.

For more details visit http://www.bbc.co.uk/treeoclock/

Hope to see you there!

Bonnie

Comment by Oscar Giuseppe Martinez Fabris on May 5, 2009 at 2:03pm: Hello Bonnie,

I work for Capital Growth / Sustain and would like to visit your project in order to have an accurate view of the area to be used for growing food as well as the type of crop to grow, the date of sowing, the date of emergency and when harvesting to weight the harvest.

Thank you,

Oscar

Comment by Bonnie on May 3, 2009 at 7:05pm

Felix made an awesome video of our Easter project at which young people from the Clapham Youth Centre helped to build the Children's Organic Garden on the estate and designed logos for the Blenheim Gardens Edible Estate project...