Links and Recommended Reading
- Organisations we work with
- We are members of
- Other useful local links
- Recommended reading
- Other useful contacts
ORGANISATIONS WE WORK WITH
* We run a weekly gardening club and an after school club at Moulsecoomb Primary School help maintain their extensive and award winning school grounds and also help at events like the Harvest Festival and the Heritage and Environment Festival.
* Pupils from BACA come on work experience with Pat Beach environmental project worker. A group of students come to the garden every Thursday to work with Pat and Russel. We also run a gardening session at BACA with students from The Swan Centre
* Pupils from the The Alternative Centre for Education work with Russell Pountney on carpentry and woodland tasks, while some have their own plots growing veg
* Pupils from Springboard work with Russell every Friday afternoon and look after their veg plot with Warren
* We currently have one pupil from Bowden House School and The Cedar Centre working with us.
* Patcham House School come up once a week for gardening
* Active Student is based at Brighton University and match up students with volunteering opportunities. We also have regular students working at us through the Community Participation & Development Module scheme
* Project V is based at Sussex University and is always busy finding us student volunteers.
* We often have residents of Outlook House doing work experience at the garden
* We are part of Harvest which successfully bid for half a million quid of National Lottery money over 4 years to increase food growing in the City. This has paid for us to increase vegetable production at BACA supplying the café at the Bridge community centre and run an after school environment club at Moulsecoomb Primary, run pick and cook sessions and run basic organic gardening for beginners courses. They also supply cook Simon Parker who cooks lunch with various pupils every Friday to serve up to everyone at the garden
* The East Sussex Archaeology and Museums Partnership advised us on building and helped us source our Norfolk reed for our roundhouse
* Two residents from Holyrood come up on a Friday and lend a hand
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Huw Morgan works with the garden project and some of our pupils in conservation work around the Moulsecoomb estate
* Garden Organic Europe’s largest organic organisation. They also run the Heritage Seed Library protecting outlawed vegetable seed.
* Brighton and Hove Organic Gardening Group
* Brighton and Hove Allotment Federation
* We buy most of our vegetable seeds and plants from Chase Organics
* Special Branch is a tree nursery based at Stanmer Organics which grows native trees from local seeds and has supplied us and Moulsecoomb Primary.
* Whitehawk Community Food Project Similar to ourselves but on the other side of town
* Seedy Sunday Find out about Brighton’s annual community seed swap
* Friends of Wild Park Organise work parties and help look after Moulsecoomb Wild Park
* Brighton Community Composting Centre turns green waste into compost, and is always very generous with donating wood-chips to the project to stop our paths becoming slippery
* Brighton Cycling Gardener offers a range of organic garden services, with a box of tools on his bike trailer he is able to carry out all garden work from mowing and pruning to clearance and planting.
Brighton Downs – a Freedom to Roam Guide and Whitehawk Hill – Where the Turf Meets the Surf both by Dave Bangs
The Allotment Handbook by Sophie Andrews. An excellent, practical book on how to campaign and save your allotment site
Flora Britannica by Richard Mabey – accounts of the role of our wild plants in our social life, arts, custom and landscapes
Roger Phillips is a photographer who made wildflower, trees, grasses, mushroom and wild foods a lot easier to identify
The Organic Salad Garden by Joy Larkcom
How To Make A Wildlife Garden by Chris Baines
'Spade, Skirret and Parsnip - the curious history of vegetables' book by Bill Laws
* Corporate Watch Keeping an eye on dodgy corporations including excellent materials on supermarkets.
* Sustain The alliance for better food and farming
* Queens Park Books are a community writing and book publishing company based in Brighton, where they have been producing and promoting local life histories for over 25 years. They believe that "everyone has a history and anyone can be a writer."
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of The Moulsecoomb
Forest Garden and Wildlife Project