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The Bristol Rainforest
Planting a rainforest one classroom at a time
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Eating Together Tenerife
Our Collaborators the Dumbrava Palerma Comunidad Based in Tenerife Also Sharing a Meal After Being Inspired by Our Eat Together Sundays in Bristol
Amrish Pandya
2 days ago1 min read
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Eat Together Sunday
Members of The Bristol Rainforest and the Rainforest Meditation Group Sharing the Joy of Sitting Down Together to Enjoy a Meal on Sunday. About to Harvest Salad Leaves From Our Wall of Veg System There's Lots of Time to Talk While Cooking Even the Chef Gets to Eat
Amrish Pandya
2 days ago1 min read
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A Rainforest in St. Paul's
We're Building a Rainforest in St. Paul's Learning Centre Creating a rainforest environment inside a learning centre might sound ambitious, but at St Paul's Learning Centre, this vision is becoming a reality. This project aims to bring nature closer to students, offering a unique, hands-on experience that blends education with environmental awareness. The rainforest will serve as a living classroom, inspiring curiosity and teaching valuable lessons about biodiversity, ecosyst
Amrish Pandya
5 days ago3 min read
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Our New Volunteer
Our new volunteer, Kieran, got stuck right in helping to make huge plant boxes for the University of the West of England, UWE. Boxes are on wheels and will hold a number of tropical trees and compatible smaller plants underneath them creating a small piece of rainforest under the Engineering Building's atrium.
Amrish Pandya
Oct 41 min read
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Get Growing - Vertically!
It's time for Bristol Food Network's Get Growing Trail this weekend 20th & 21st. We ate building another one of our Walls of Veg to show that anyone that had no garden can still grow on a wall. Come and see this and other ideas for growing food in our city.
Amrish Pandya
Sep 171 min read
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Look After Baby Banyan Tree
We have a limited number of Baby Banyan trees for you to host, love them and look after them until they are old enough and big enough to...
Amrish Pandya
Sep 11 min read
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Forest Meditation
Meditating together with your community in Nature, in a forest.
Amrish Pandya
Aug 311 min read
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Trees @ The Pickle Factory
Come and plant your own Pomegranate tree with us at the Pickle Factory from 3pm today.
Amrish Pandya
Jul 261 min read
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Founders' Day
The two Co-Founders of the Bristol Rainforest met today in the Garden of Easton, St Marks Road, Easton. How can anyone fault such a...
Amrish Pandya
Jul 181 min read
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Bristol Food Network
Bristol Food Network is visiting this morning to interview us as part of their Get Growing Trail. They’re creating a short film to...
Amrish Pandya
Jun 241 min read
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Another Banyan Tree for Bristol Aquarium
A large Banyan tree which lived in this position at the Bristol Aquarium was moved to its new home at South Bristol Skills Academy. In...
Amrish Pandya
Dec 13, 20221 min read
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Thriving on the heat
Our trees at the South Bristol Skills Academy seem to be loving the heat. We've noticed that over the past few days many of the Banyan...
Amrish Pandya
Jul 21, 20221 min read
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Living Mandala Sculpture Moves into its New Home at Bristol Aquarium's Urban Jungle
This is how I spent Lockdown, making a piece of sculpture to house a 27 year old strangler fig tree. The finished piece before the tree...
Amrish Pandya
Feb 7, 20221 min read
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We went to see the Jungle at OVO Energy's building in Bristol
We were very impressed by the jungle in the atrium in OVO Energy's headquarters building near Temple Meads Station in Bristol Just take a...
Amrish Pandya
Feb 7, 20221 min read
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South Bristol Skills Academy Gets its First Rainforest Tree
Last week we visited the striking modern building of the South Bristol Skills Academy (SBSA) which is part of the City of Bristol...
Amrish Pandya
Feb 7, 20221 min read
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Visit to Hannah More Primary School - a Tardis of a school!
I felt very welcomed at the school and was excited to see new possible locations for one of our Banyan trees in this school. I've been...
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Jun 18, 20191 min read
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Trees... can grow on you!
There comes a time when a tree has to trade up to a bigger pot. Rosie and I just helped them along the way.
Amrish Pandya
Jan 6, 20191 min read
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Amrish Pandya
Sep 26, 20180 min read
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