The Garden
Bulwell Forest Garden is a thriving space featuring 25 raised vegetable beds, fruit orchards, wild flower meadows, a sensory garden and medicinal garden, a polytunnel, willow structures, native hedgerows, wildlife pond, community woodlands and compost loo. We use organic methods of food growing and pest control, including composting, companion planting and crop rotation.
There’s always lots of fun jobs for people of all ages and abilities, from table top activities such as seed sowing and painting signs to weeding, harvesting and turning the compost. Our volunteers are highly valued and essential to the garden’s continuation and development. We love gardening and getting a bit mucky, but we love meeting new people, getting the kettle on and having a good natter too!
Growing At Home
If you have your hands full and can’t make it down to the Garden, don’t fear! If you live locally, you can sign up to our free Lets Get Growing scheme by emailing grow@bulwellforestgarden.co.uk. We will provide the resources and advice to help you grow veg, flowering bulbs and bee friendly plants in your own garden or yard.
We have video tutorials on our YouTube channel to help you get started and guide you through the growing year.
Conservation and Biodiversity
To sustain healthy lives we need wildlife and it needs us.
If you’re very quiet, you might be lucky and spot some wildlife at BFG when you visit us. We have families of hedgehogs, frogs and foxes live onsite, and we have many bird boxes and feeding stations, bee hotels and beastie hotels, to support bio-diversity across the Garden.
Without pollinators we would lose many of our favourite foods: tomatoes, peas, apples and strawberries, so planting bee and butterfly friendly perennials and other wildflowers is a really important part of our Garden - and of course, they look amazing!
If you want to help your garden to become a haven for wildlife, you can introduce your own bee friendly plants, a pond (however small), and of course, avoid pesticides and chemicals.
Weekly Pop up Shop
Every Friday, we sell our seasonal fruit and veg, herbs and bee friendly perennials at a low cost, freshly picked to order. Keep an eye on our facebook page for ever changing produce, or just pop in and ask what is available.
We ask that you don’t pick produce without discussing it with one of our team, as some things are earmarked for Lunch Club or our volunteers.
Please note, that produce may not aways be available in colder months.
