The Fork & Trowel Growing Company

The Fork & Trowel Growing Company Helping you to have a productive outdoor space and a more charming and wildlife-friendly garden.

Do you aspire to have a more productive outdoor space or a more charming and wildlife-friendly garden? Many of our gardens could be producing food, supporting more life and looking all the more beautiful for it. Your garden is the best place to connect with nature and food and I want to help and inspire you in that process. I can help you to transform your garden, allotment, balcony, terrace or wi

ndow box by helping and advising you on:

growing delicious & seasonal fruit, vegetables and edible flowers
creating beautiful wildflower lawns & meadows
keeping chickens for fresh eggs
building bug hotels, wildlife ponds bird boxes & bee homes
designing garden furnishings with reclaimed & vintage materials

If you would like to share in the good life but don’t know where to start or would like a helping hand, then please get in touch with me, Tommy Copestake, and we can begin to transform your space.

Busy day yesterday inspecting honeybee colonies for the Together Centre, a charity helping Manchester families.
11/08/2021

Busy day yesterday inspecting honeybee colonies for the Together Centre, a charity helping Manchester families.

Ready steady sow 🌱 Now's the time to start planning and planting your veggies and flowers for the year ahead. Grow what ...
19/03/2021

Ready steady sow 🌱 Now's the time to start planning and planting your veggies and flowers for the year ahead. Grow what you like to munch on, unusual varieties and plants that will bring in the birds and the bees. Give us a shout if you want a helping hand growing a productive, wildlife-friendly garden 🍑

a blog about bees
02/05/2017

a blog about bees

Early spring. The freshest greens of the year, blossom, and over the last few weeks, sapphire skies. After six months of slumber, our bees are active again. It was time for us to open the hive up a…

Catch us at the To***co Factory Market on Sunday 7th. Along with the fantastic Fox&Fowweather we will have all things le...
26/04/2017

Catch us at the To***co Factory Market on Sunday 7th. Along with the fantastic Fox&Fowweather we will have all things leafy for sale, including indoor plants, vegis, herbs, pots and planters!

Dropped my hoe to take a snap of the world's friendliest robin. Think he ate his bodyweight in worms 🐦
08/03/2017

Dropped my hoe to take a snap of the world's friendliest robin. Think he ate his bodyweight in worms 🐦

19 Likes, 2 Comments - The Fork & Trowel Growing Co. () on Instagram: “Dropped my hoe to take a snap of the world's friendliest robin. Think he ate his bodyweight in…”

We're pouring over seed catalouges and fantasising about spring! Now's the time to get plotting and planning for the sea...
24/01/2017

We're pouring over seed catalouges and fantasising about spring! Now's the time to get plotting and planning for the season ahead. For what to plant out right now, check out our blog on growing garlic to beat the winter blues

A week before Halloween, I planted garlic. Early winter is the time to plant it, as it gets a head start and so once summer rolls back around, the bulbs are plumper than spring planted. Garlic has ...

It's our year and a quarter birthday! We've had a terrific time helping allotment owners and families across Bristol to...
21/08/2016

It's our year and a quarter birthday! We've had a terrific time helping allotment owners and families across Bristol to have beautiful, productive and wildlife friendly gardens. Thank you Bristol!

08/05/2016

Next weekend we will be peddling heritage vegetables and chatting the good life when Fox&Fowweather opens up her house for the Southbank Bristol Arts trail to two artists, and her own collection of vintage wares. Find us at point 24 on the arts trail or 256 Coronation Rd!

If you're a fan of filtered foliage and sultry vegetables (and who isn't?) or simply have questions about growing food a...
30/04/2016

If you're a fan of filtered foliage and sultry vegetables (and who isn't?) or simply have questions about growing food and gardening check us out at www.instagram.com/forkandtrowel

We're a fresh & green company, helping Bristolians have more productive, charming & wildlife friendly spaces. We hang out at our allotment shed HQ.

Meet our new arrivals at the Fork & Trowel HQ! This is Judith with Beryl Summersby happening to pass by.
30/04/2016

Meet our new arrivals at the Fork & Trowel HQ! This is Judith with Beryl Summersby happening to pass by.

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