Victoria Park’s secret garden

By Eliza Reid

BRISTOL Greens is a fantastic little social enterprise based in Victoria Park. They have a walled garden just outside Bristol where they grow salad, herbs, vegetables and cut flowers. All this produce is grown for their basket scheme which delivers baskets of local organic produce around BS3 and BS4.

The baskets include a bunch of flowers and often foraged produce, and all their packaging is homecompostable.They also sell their produce, and produce from other local farms, at their weekly Friday morning veg stall at the top of Nutgrove Avenue, Victoria Park.

Bristol Greens is a not-for-profit enterprise set up almost two years ago by founder Eliza Reid. She wanted to combine her passion for growing food with addressing food insecurity, so profits from the basket scheme support their food bank. So as well as their basket scheme they also deliver weekly free food boxes to homes of families in crisis who have mobility issues which prevent them from accessing food banks.

They also have a free food table at their Nutgrove Avenue veg stall, consisting of surplus and out-grade food donated by Bristol businesses. Anyone can help themselves to the free food table and those who can afford to make a donation which goes towards buying essential items for the free food boxes.

You can order a basket of local organic produce by emailing info@bristolgreens.co.uk, baskets start at £14.