The new team running Hartcliffe farm have said they hope to open to the public in the spring after signing a lease this month.
Last May, the chair of the Hartcliffe Community Farm said all its remaining animals had been sold on an "incredibly sad day" for the community. This marked the final chapter of a long-running saga involving a group of volunteers who ran the farm for many years and Bristol City Council, which owns the site.
In early 2020 council chiefs made it clear they would not be renewing the lease to the board of volunteers and staff who ran the farm, and questioned their competency. That prompted fears in the community that the farm was being primed to be sold off for development, or for other projects, which would mean it would be lost as a free-to-access community resource.
