A chilly wind was whipping through Lawrence Weston on the north-western fringes of Bristol but Donna Sealey and her fellow workers were braving the bitter weather to renovate raised beds in front of the shopping parade.
“Next summer these will be full of herbs – sage, rosemary, marjoram, whatever people tell us they’d like,” said Sealey, a community development worker at the charity Ambition Lawrence Weston (ALW). “We’re also planting fruit and nut trees and we’ve just started work on a community allotment.
