Sea Mills Community Garden

I have volunteered at the community garden, helping to facilitate an after school group where children can learn about nature, be outside, learn about growing food and take part in activities which aren't video games.There is a badger set within the garden and this has been left undisturbed. The people running the garden grow a varied selection of flowers and plants to encourage pollinators, they're planting nut trees and hawthorns to provide food and shelter for wildlife. The children have made bug hotels, a home for slow worms and natural bird feeders.From a community perspective, the garden provides nutrition for people who rely on food banks, volunteering opportunities, skills to learn and companionship. Some of the food is given to the Sea Mills Community Cafe for their ingredients and a local cake baking group who donate their cakes to the cafe.Overall, the benefits of the garden far outweigh the negative impact of removing brambles, especially as these have been replaced with a wider variety of food, shelter and pollinators.

Hort comunitari on poder fer de voluntari i gaudir de les celebracions i esdeveniments que s'hi fan. La gent que ho porta i els que hi van són adorables.

Wildlife decline in the UK, and all over the world is a major problem. The over-development of land plays a part in it.The Community Garden is a wonderful idea. But with designated allotments in the very near vicinity, it's unnecessary.The large-scale removal of the bramble and privacy of this unique and naturally-occuring wildlife site will damage the ecological value of it.Bramble plays a big role in wildlife support. Bramble provides wildlife (birds, bees and insects, badgers, foxes) with privacy, protection, and nesting sites - it was great at keeping humans out! Bramble's prolific flowers provide pollinating insects with food, and Bramble fruit provides food.The large number of urban wildlife species inhabitingand thriving in this area will diminish and displace with the destruction of the large area of bramble they relied upon.It's not too late to return the area to its bramble covered, human-free, natural state.