Dame Emily Park

28/09/2026

🌱 GROW, GATHER, GIVE BACK 🌱

Dame Emily Park Project – Community Art Workshop

Join us on 05/10 at 5pm for a fun and creative afternoon in Dame Emily Park! 🌻🎨

We’ll be celebrating the restoration of the DEPP tree trunk and officially unveiling it to the community. 🌳

Then it’s your turn to get involved! We’ll be bringing the garden wall to life with community murals, creating a colourful garden scene together with large flowers, bees, butterflies, ladybirds 🐞 and more.

Children, families, volunteers and everyone in the community are welcome. You don’t need to be an artist — just bring your creativity (wear old clothes wich don’t mind getting on some paint) and help us make something beautiful together. 💚

Come along, pick up a paintbrush and leave your mark on Dame Emily Park!

🌱 Grow – help our garden and community flourish
🤝 Gather – bring people together
💚 Give Back – help create something lasting for everyone to enjoy

📅 Monday 5th October
⏰ 5-6:30 pm
📍 Dame Emily Park

We’d love to see you there! 🎨🌸🐝🦋🐞

Grow. Gather. Give Back.
Dame Emily Park Project

27/09/2026

🌿🌸 Plant Sales Corner is blooming! 🌸🌿
Looking for something new to brighten up your garden, home or windowsill? Come and have a look at the Plant Sales Corner at Dame Emily Park Community Garden — it’s packed with lovely plants ready for a new home! 🪴💚
🌺 Nasturtiums
🌼 Tiger lilies
🍓 Raspberries
🌵 Christmas cactus
🌿 Lemon balm
…and more!
Pop by, choose your favourites and donate whatever you can — cash or via our QR code. Every little bit helps support our community garden and the work we do. 🌱
🌻 Come for the plants, stay for the community!
We’d love to see you. 💚

26/09/2026

There will be two screenings of the national emergency briefing at acta and elephant house. https://www.nebriefing.org/

23/09/2026

🎃🍂 PUMPKINFEST IS COMING! 🍂🎃

Join us at Dame Emily Park on Monday 19th October from 5pm onwards for our final Monday garden session of 2026!

It’s time to celebrate another brilliant year of DEPP with an evening of fun, games, music, merriment and community. 🥳

🔥 Bonfire
🍡 Marshmallows
🎶 Music
🎲 Games
🎃 Pumpkins
✨ And plenty of autumn fun!

We’d absolutely love to see everyone there!

📍 Dame Emily Park
📅 Monday 19th October
⏰ From 5pm onwards
🎟️ FREE

Come along and help us give 2026’s Monday garden sessions the send-off they deserve! 🎃🔥💚

We hope you can make it!

14/09/2026

Thanks all for joining today’s Gardening Session!
Lots done as usual, all super workers and helping in their own wonderful way 🌱❤️

Some of what we achieved including pruning trees, harvesting nettles, rocket tomatoes, crab apples for BS3 Jammin' and potatoes, painting the wood stump, turning the good old warm stinky compost, seed bombing the park with sunflower seeds, snail hunting and spreading more woodchips around the planters.
We also continued the wooden box/table, lots of helpers on cutting wood and deconstructing pallets! 💪

Cake as usual mega delicious!
Thanks all, enjoy a very restful and deserved evening!

14/09/2026

A huge THANK YOU to Tiziana and Rosie from Re-Fabricate for running a brilliant ‘Build with Anything’ workshop at the park yesterday 🛠️🪵 as part of Bristol Good Food 2030 growing trail

Despite the drizzly weather, we all rolled up our sleeves and worked hard together to design and create two much-needed new storage pieces for our garden. 🙌

There are still a few final touches to add, so stay tuned for the big reveal… 👀✨

A big thank you to everyone who came along and got stuck in- it was fantastic to see everyone working together and making things happen!

And thank you also to Uschi for the delicious cake- very much appreciated! 🍰❤️

See you at the garden today at 5pm! 🌿

13/09/2026

🌿 Got a skill, passion or piece of knowledge to share with your community? We’d love to hear from you! 🌿

Dame Emily Park Project (DEPP) is looking for enthusiastic, skilled and knowledgeable people to run workshops for us and the local community.

Previous workshops have included
🍄 mushroom foraging
🦇 making bat boxes
🌿 learning about herbs
🧶 weaving
🎄 making Christmas decorations
and much much more!

We know there are plenty more brilliant ideas and talented people out there!

Whether you're a maker, grower, artist, craftsperson, nature lover, teacher or simply passionate about sharing what you know, we’d love to hear from you.

💷 We typically offer £200 per workshop (negotiable).

We’re currently looking for workshops to run throughout the autumn and winter, but it’s never too early to start planning, so if you’ve got an idea for 2027, please get in touch!

📧 Interested? Email [email protected] telling us:

✨ What you’d like to do
✨ Why you want to do it
✨ Who will benefit from the workshop
✨ What difference your project will make
✨ What links you already have in the community that will help you deliver it
✨ If the project is being delivered in partnership, who your partners are and a little about your background of working together

We know there are some incredibly skilled and knowledgeable people in our area, so if that sounds like you, or you know someone who would be perfect, please spread the word!

Let’s learn, make, share and connect.

12/09/2026

🍎 What a fantastic apple pressing day! 🍏
Today was a wonderful opportunity for people of all ages, young and old, to come together and discover the traditional art of apple pressing.
Turning freshly picked apples into delicious, natural apple juice. It was brilliant to see so many people getting involved and having fun.
A big thank you to Patchwork Community Gardening Group for organising this and everyone who came along and made the day so special. We hope you enjoyed it as much as we did! 🌳🍎

12/09/2026

come over today, Saturday and join in 🍎👍🙏😃

Apple Day tomorrow from 11am-2.30pm and the sun is going to shine!

11/09/2026