Links and Recommended Reading
ORGANISATIONS WE WORK WITH
* We run a weekly gardening club at Moulsecoomb Primary School help maintain their extensive and award winning school grounds and also help at events like the Harvest Festival.
* Pupils from Falmer High School visit the project twice a week through the Integrated Youth Support Team We also run a gardening club at the school every Thursday with the Swan Centre with Pat Beach environmental worker from the Intergrated Youth Support Team
* The Alternative Centre for Education have two sessions a week with Russell Pountney as well as some pupils sometimes coming down individually on work experience
* Pupils from Springboard work with Russell every Friday afternoon Springboard Education Junior
* 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.
* Patcham House School come up once a week for gardening and also come to an after school club with Russell. 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.
* Adults from the Belgrave Day Centre visit the project to do some gardening and eat all our biscuits!
* 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 have a gardener for a few hours a week at Falmer High, run pick and cook sessions with the World Food Project and Sticky Fingers Project and run basic organic gardening for beginners courses
WE ARE MEMBERS OF
* 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
OTHER USEFUL LOCAL LINKS
* 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 Cycling Gardener offers a range of organic garden services, with a box of tools on his bike trailer he is able to carry out most garden work from mowing and pruning to clearance and planting.
RECOMMENDED READING
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
OTHER USEFUL CONTACTS
* Corporate Watch Keeping an eye on dodgy corporations including excellent materials on supermarkets.
* Sustains 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."
Get in touch!
Contact details and opening times
of The Moulsecoomb
Forest Garden and Wildlife Project
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