Eastwood Farm
Local Nature Reserve

Eastwood Farm & Beese's Wild Wednesday Evenings
last Wednesday of each month, April to September 2013

Join us on a series of walks to explore the wildlife of Eastwood Farm.

Coffee or tea will be available at Beese's after the walks.

Meet in in Beese's car park - directions on Beese's website.

Beese's ferry will be running from Conham
(from approx 15 min before the walk start time - and they will take you back afterwards!).

• Wed 24th April 8.00pm - Bat walk with Miriam Woolnough

• Wed 29th May 7.30pm - Foraging Walk with Cliff Woodward

• Wed 26th June 7.30pm - Bugs & Beasties hunt with Rupert Higgins

• Wed 31st July 7.30pm - Trees and other wildlife with Ed Drewitt

• Wed 28th August 7.30pm - Moth hunt with Rupert Higgins

• Wed 25th September 7.30pm - Owl Prowl with Ian McGuire

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A big thank you to our neighbours, Beese's Riverside Bar & Tea Gardens for their continuing support of Friends of Eastwood Farm.
 

Last year Beese's donated money from sales of Beer Festival tickets and sales of 'Butcombe Hotdogs' throughout the year to Friends of Eastwood Farm and Friends of Troopers Hill. Ma & Pa Beese presented the cheques at the Dog Show on Easter Monday.

Beese's also dontated the stone for the steps down from the car park to Eastwood Farm. The steps had been constructed by volunteers from Lloyds Bank and the stone was placed by Community Payback.

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Family Fun Day & Dog Show - Monday 1st April 2013

Photos of the Eastwood Farm Fun Day on Flickr >>

We hope you enjoyed the show despite the cold weather!

It was great to see so many people and dogs enjoying themselves.

Many thanks to Friends of Troopers Hill and Jules our 'parkie' for their help. Thanks also to all those who ran stalls; Paula from WildCity and especially to all our funders as below. We hope to do it again next year on a warmer day.

Greater Brislington Neighbourhood Partnership • Beese's Bar & Tea Gardens • Highcroft Vets •Wild City Project

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FRIENDS OF EASTWOOD FARM

www.bristol.gov.uk/eastwoodfarm

Help to look after Eastwood Farm

Contact: Paula Spiers – 0117 9224325 or email for more information.

Other past events:

Photos of Wildlife Walk Sunday 27th May 2012 >>

Photos of Family Discovery Day 24th July 2011 >>

Download 2009 Fungi Foray Report >>

Eastwood Farm LNR is a key site for the Wild City Project - find out more at www.bristol.gov.uk/wildcity

Welcome from the Friends of Eastwood Farm

Eastwood Farm Local Nature Reserve is a little known wildlife haven by the side of the River Avon in Brislington, Bristol.

Eastwood Farm is owned by Bristol City Council and managed by Bristol Parks, it was designated as a Local Nature Reserve in January 2008. Formerly farmland, part of the site was used for landfill in the 1970s and there was a plan to build a road acoss it.

Now it is a beautiful open space enjoyed by people and wildlife.

Take a walk along the watermeadows and you could see swans, kingfishers, coots, buzzards, squirrels, herons, mallards, moorhens, and many more. You may even see our ‘Parkie’ – Julian Thomas – who is a mine of information on the site and its wildlife.

The links below will tell you more about the site but it would be far better to pay us a visit!

Interactive Map on the Council Website >>

Read about the Friends of Eastwood Farm Logo >>

Use the map to find us, click on the symbols for information and use the controls to move around; zoom in for a clearer view or zoom out to see where we are in Bristol - or in the world!.

View in Google Maps

Learn more about Eastwood Farm...

Bristol Parks - Eastwood Farm Page >>

Explore the Avon Valley on the Friends of Troopers Hill website >>

Nature in the City Project 2006 - 2008 >>
(this includes photos of past events on Eastwood Farm)

Brislington Community Partnership website >>

Beese's Bar & Tea Gardens >>
(Beese's is next to Eastwood Farm and they are strong supporters of our group)

Download Eastwood Farm Leaflet produced in the 1980s >>

This is an image of the interpretation board in Eastwood Farm LNR.
The board was designed by Clare Challice of dandi creative design and the wildlife illustrations were drawn by Abi Stubbs.

Friends of Eastwood Farm Response to AGSP Consultation (pdf)

Fungi Foray November, 2009 - Justin's Report

Julian's photos taken at Eastwood Farm LNR 2009 >>

Julian's 2010 photos >>

Enjoying Eastwood Farm LNR May 2010 >>