A long list of herbs that we would very much like to find growing locally. Can you help? Do you have some spare growing capacity?

Here are some simple guidelines for anyone who is thinking of wild harvesting herbs.

Nestled within the Arts corner of Christmas Steps, at 58 Colston Street, sits the building which Bristol more recently knows as: The Urban Fringe Dispensary. The building itself has existed here for over 500 years, in this unique and historic area of the city.

Looking at the role of locally sourced and grown herbs in a relocalised health care system that puts the knowledge and skills needed to stay healthy back in our own hands and gardens.

Concerned that drinking real ale makes you feel rubbish the next day? You never know, it might be the wheat.

You might well ask.....

In March 2009 I went exploring the Malago River with the well named artist, Becky Beinart. This is part of the Bristol urban fringe that I hadn't visited before, and I was agreeably surprised at how well kept some of it is. Becky had been commissioned by the Architecture Centre and Groundwork Southwest as part of their Spring Green programme, exploring the themes of urban green space and green infrastructure.