Thanks for all your kind donations, we now have enough plant pots and loo rolls! 😊🌷
Bulwell Forest Garden
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A community food growing and wildlife project with regular activities and workshops for everyone. All welcome.
Bulwell Forest Garden is a community project, founded and managed by a team of volunteers since 2012. We grow fruit and veg together which is then shared with our volunteers and the wider community. Anyone can come and help out, Mondays Wednesdays Fridays and Saturdays. We run a weekly Lunch Club each Friday, using harvested produce to cook a veggie meal that is then eaten together. We also provid
03/06/2026
2 last minute spaces available on this great woodwork skills course, making a bird box and more.. if you're interested and free at 1pm today, get in touch. 07890557854
31/05/2026
BFG is the place to be on Saturdays throughout June, whatever your age...
Each week we have Family Gardening, with jobs for all ages!.
13 June, we are hosting Tales from the wheelbarrow, part of Nottingham Puppet Festival for the under 5's. Sold out online, but some space for local resident "walk in's"
20 June, Lisa is teaching us how to preserve, pickle and ferment! £5 donation
27 June kick starts our monthly Dr Bike sessions, as well as holding a workshop with Dr Linda all about wildlife ID. Both these workshops are suitable for adults and children.
OPENING TIMES TODAY ... please note we are closing at 3pm today.
28/05/2026
LUNCH CLUB:
Falafels with green salad, potato salad tahini and pickled radish, followed by strawberry and vanilla cake.
Come at 10.30am to help or 12pm to share a meal with us.
No strict need to book, but if you're able to let us know you're coming, it helps our anxiety levels no end!!
No Rainbow Stripes this week as it's the holidays, but you're still very welcome to come and enjoy the green space
VOLUNTEERING:
Lots of watering, planting out our crops in outdoor beds and preparing our polytunnel beds for our tomatoes, peppers and cucumbers... starting 1pm
(Photos courtesy of the talented Deanna Gallacher, photography student and local resident, sadly missing Rezi our Lunch Club coordinator, who was on holiday)
28/05/2026
NEW STOCK UPDATE TODAY... open 10-4 today and Friday, 1.30-4 on Sat.
Fruit and veg:
Red currents
Strawberries
Cauliflower
Courgettes
Cucumber
Tomatoes - gardeners delight, golden sunrise, outdoor girl
Kale
Perennial broccoli
Salad leaves
Companion high pollinating plants:
Calendula
Nigella
Nasturtium
Sunflowers
We're open Friday 10-4 and Saturday 1.30-4
26/05/2026
Last shout out for loo roll tubes! We need to have them packed for Green Hustle on Friday, ready for kids workshops on Saturday.
Don't worry about opening times, you can just pop them in a bag and lob them over the gate. ❤️
23/05/2026
What you up to this sunny bank holiday weekend? We are taking part in the Nottingham Growing Network Open Day, come and join us for a bit of family gardening, buy some plants or just bring a picnic while the kids play in the woods and mud kitchen, 1.30pm-4pm... 🌿
20/05/2026
Forest School ... child led play ... discovering self ... forging friendships ... and scoffing toasted crumpets on the campfire! These dudes have grown with us over the past 5 years, and we're so proud of the humans they are becoming! ❤️
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Location
Address
Austin Street
Nottingham
NG69HE
Opening Hours
| Monday | 10am - 4pm |
| Wednesday | 11am - 4pm |
| Friday | 10am - 4pm |
| Saturday | 1:30pm - 4pm |