Do you have pots of energy?
Join the Stonebridge Salad Pot Challenge.
Sunday 27th March between 10am and 3pm
Help us see how many pots of salad we can sow in a day
Take some home, grow your own!
Special Climate Week Quiz at 2.30pm - have a go and win something.
This event is part of Climate week, 21st to 27th March. www.climateweek.com
RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch
Come and Join the RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch on
Sunday 30th January 2011 at Stonebridge City Farm
10am-3pm with Dave Goodwin. Click on the image to go to the 'Royal Society For the Protection of Birds' website
Check out the short video below.
Our open day held on 25th July 2010 was a great success, we would like to say a big thank you to all of you who came down to support us and contributed to it's success. The family atmosphere was really great.
We will be holding more events on a smaller scale this month.
Introduction to Beekeeping - a short taster session, with demos, information and lovely honey.
Sunday 15th August 4.30pm - 6.30pm
Pests & Diseases - An introduction to the most common types of pests and diseases you will encounter with your plants and veg. With Dr Anne Coules (NTU)
Saturday 21st August at 12.00 noon.
Chilli's with Dave - a talk and taste session - to whet your appetite and start growing chillies. Anyone can grow them!
Scrumptious food will be available.
Sunday 22nd August 12 noon onwards.
Places will be limited so please book by sending an email to audrey@stonebridgecityfarm.com
The cost for each workshop is £1.00 for Green Street Members and £2.00 for non members.
Other sessions coming up (dates to be confirmed) include:
Introduction to keeping chickens
Garlic Day
Window sill Salads
PROTECT STONEBRIDGE CITY FARM
GREEN STREET
Local residents have been taking part in our ‘Green Street’
project funded by Local Food Lottery funding.
Our new horticultural outreach worker is on hand to help
novice gardeners to grow their own veg, a beekeeping course, in the spring we
will have lots of plantlets for gardeners to take home, the Green Street blog
is updated each month to let people know what’s going on in the polytunnels and
gardens. http://stonebridgegreenstreet.blogspot.com/
UPDATE...
Grab a Grand
Stonebridge City Farm would like to thank everyone who voted
for us for Grab a Grand. We were awarded £1,000 by Nottingham City Council to enable us
to buy outside water troughs for
visitors to wash their hands after feeding the animals. They have been
installed to help us decrease the risk ecoli.
"The Nurseryman" A short video, click on the link to view.
"The Nurseryman"
Birds eye view of Stonebridge City Farm
Lionel Clark, work placement trainee with Billy the kid.
Carnival
Saturday 12th July 2009.
11am - 3pm
Free Activities
Mask Making
Making Carnival Costumes
Kids Green Games
Carnival Parade
Samba Percussion
Salsa Dancing
Story Telling
Display of Farm's History.
All Welcome
Stonebridge City Farm
Stonebridge Road
St Ann's
Nottingham
NG3 2FR
What went off at the Bank Hoiday Beano? - click on the picture or go to the GALLERY to find out...
John Lewis Sensory Garden.
The garden is now well established with scented and textured plants.
Equipped with a comfortable bench, an ideal spot to relax and meditate.
What Stonebridge City Farm Stands for.
Volunteers and Clients are at the heart of everything that we do here. The thinking behind the project is to offer real work experience to people who are excluded from paid work due to a learning or physical disability or difficulty. We also offer experience to individuals who may have been unable to work due to mental health problems or addictions.
By opening up opportunities to work on the farm, volunteers and clients learn how to get on with others in a group situation, take on tasks for themselves and to support or be supported by others depending on ability.
Over time they will build up confidence in their abilities and increase their self esteem. Stonebridge offers an environment for individuals to express themselves and learn social skills as well as picking up experience of working.
Volunteers and clients time with us varies. Some have been with us for 12 years! most stay for a couple of years and then move on, to college, employment or further training.
Stonebridge City Farm, a poem by Ron Gardner
You can stroll back into childhood
At Stonebridge City Farm -
The animals will lure you there
Such innocent, earthly charm.
We look Olivia and Amy
Grandaughters, as our guide
To this wonderland of creatures
With no deviousness to hide.
Hands outstretched, the children
Offered food to gatherings of goats
Who looked and licked and gobbled
As though being handed ten pound notes.
The big fat sow, however,
With the piglet feeding at her teat,
Content to snuffle at the grass,
Ignored the hand-held treat.
Another field was white with geese
All snuggled in the grass
The pond was waiting for them
But today they let it pass.
A second pond had wiggly things
Darting here and there
And lethargic little water-snails.
These things made the children stare.
A friendly man called out to us
To hurry come and see
A hip - hop frog a leaping
In a bed of green parsley.
Amy was excited
Had not seen one before
She bent to see it closely
Nature study was no chore.
Then they sat to stroke a rabbit
And nurse a guinea pig
We, too, reached out to touch them
Soft, warm, not very big
Another friendly farm hand
Spoke about the bees.
We tasted their pure honey
It was truly the bees knees.
He pulled out a box of honey combs
As the bees had left it now
Amy explored it with her hands
The farmer showed her how.
We saw and heard the chickens
One handsome cockerel
Lifted its beak to give
A cock-a-doodle-doo
Worthy to be included
In an avian Who's Who.
A cage of fluttering rainbows
Flitting from perch to pole
Would capture admiration
From every living soul.
And sun-flowers bearing down on us,
Trees with apples thick on boughs,
Notices declaring names
For ponies, pigs and cows.
And with all this a little park
With slides and things to climb
Where children (and some grand pa pas)
Can have a vigorous time.
And finally, the café where,
Whilst taking cake and tea,
You can look at photographs and posters
Giving Stonebridge history.
Thank you men and women
Who for nearly thirty years
Have worked to make this special place
Worth far more than just three cheers.
You can find your way around this site in many ways. At the top and bottom of each page is a navigation bar that will take you to each of the main pages.
Alternatively, you may use the imagemap below for specific areas of the farm. (Just click on the relevant title.)
Occasionally you may find a word link - this will be coloured blue.
Finally, whenever you see an icon depicting daisy the cow - just 'click the cow' and you will find extra information. Please feel free to explore....
Stonebridge City Farm IMAGEMAP (Click where you want to go)
Open 10am - 4pm everyday. (Except Friday, Open Noon - 4pm) Please remember, the animals are taken into the barn at 3.30pm
'There is always something happening for YOU at Stonebridge City Farm - All Welcome'
This site is owned and maintained by Stonebridge City Farm, Stonebridge Road, St.Anns, Nottingham. NG3 2FR. Telephone: 0115 950 5113. Fax: 0115 941 5288. info@stonebridgecityfarm.com Registered Charity No.508565
