Welcome to OLD TREE 

A growing social enterprise combining brewing and gardening to make the most nourishing and delicious drinks. .

BREWERY, CAFE, FOREST GARDEN & EVENT SPACE 

 Through this tunnel on Lewes Road, we will be hosting many inspiring workshops, talks and events, combining gardening & fermentation over the next year. 

 Through this tunnel on Lewes Road, we will be hosting many inspiring workshops, talks and events, combining gardening & fermentation over the next year. 

Part of the FIELD makers project, next to the Brighton Woodstore we run a fully–licensed Brewhouse Café with large seating area, garden, meeting spaces & carpark with disabled access open Tuesday – Saturday here @ BN2 4GL

 

WE BREW

We make drinks with the seasons, foraging ingredients and growing as much as we can. We are committed to open sourcing our knowledge in fermentation and food-forestry for (social, ecological and economic) resilience

GARDEN

We work with with local people through gardening. We run edible landscape tours followed by drinks tastings, offer permaculture advice and can provide resourceful gardening services, with an enthusiasm for edible and useful plants.

CREATE 

'Botanical Drinks For Edible Landscapes"

FERMENT & COMPOST

 To demonstrate that a healthier and more local food and drink system is now possible. 

Have a read of our vision to get the bigger picture.

 

The most delicious and healthy food and drink comes from LIVING SOIL!!! The activity of uncountable numbers of microbes, in all soils with real organic matter added to them, give food and drink ingredients a higher nutrient content. Along with @silobrighton we compost everything we use at Old tree and make incredible compost for use for the edible landscapes we are planting to relocalise our supply chains. We need to make urban composting more effective EVERYWHERE. Without 100% closed loop nutrient cycling made possible through urban composting and the wide spread adoption of regenerative agriculture practices to feed us, a sustainable and healthy human future is not possible to achieve. Whats more, in a compost rich future there will be more bird song and green spaces everywhere which improve lives for everyone and help the recovery of critically endangered species such as bees - that we need to survive. Big up to the Ledbury Restaurant for adopting complete composting inspired by @silobrighton - we have used your compost to fertilise a new vertical edible salad garden in the edible landscape @fieldbtn Thanks @mcmasterchef for the bag microbes ✊️and Bertha in general! #teamingwithmicrobes #ediblelandscapes #composteverything #locallymade #growyourown #makecompost #closed-loop #workwithnature #createlivingsoil
It was a real privilege to supply drinks for the @uniofbrighton Green Growth conference last week. So many opportunities for small and medium sizes businesses working for social and ecological change. @fieldbtn some brilliant connections and the @silobrighton food was incredible. Perfect match for our drinks - Sea buckthorn Ebulis kombucha and freshly pressed Sussex Apple juice. #locallymade #greengrowth #brighton
Big thanks to this dream team who made our Permablitz @fieldbtn today - Working like Giant Earthworms incredibly productive! So much ground prepared and many seeds a planted. Polytunnel next! #urbanfoodforestry #growthechangeyouwishtosee #digforvictory #communitygardening #ediblelandscapes #oldtree
Upgrade to the back of the rickshaw by Harry Apple Seed. We are are nearly all set for fermented drinks delivery rounds around Brighton now. If your local to Lewes road or Btown area and would like a monthly delivery of some of the best botanical and fermented drinks made in this city - get in touch or come visit our Brewhouse cafe @fieldbtn ! #pedalpower #brighton #botanicaldreams
Botanical drink tasting adventure on the rickshaw today ! From @fieldbtn to the @theset_restaurant with a swing-top of everything on our Drink The Season Menu. Was great to meet the Set team and try some of their inspirational creations with freshly grown and foraged things, like Sorrel sorbet!! they seemed equally impressed with our drinks and we hope to be supplying them in the very near future on route with @silobrighton and also now @hisbe_cic from the beginning of March with our bottled Kombucha. It's a joy to connect these brilliant places with @oldtreebrewery drinks. Gratitude to the green innovators in Brighton! Next stop @greengrowth conference on Thursday for our 3 wheeled seasonal drinks delivery! Toot toot
This book has taught us a lot about edible landscaping - The science of food-forestry, all of its benefits and the incredible variety of useful and edible plants we have at our fingertips if we make them green! It continues to inform the #urbanfoodforestry we are doing @fieldbtn - and this Friday we are running out second@permablitz of the year where we'll be putting some of Martin Crawfords methods into practice. We have an incredible variety of Rose with huge fruits that we'll be using to make an new drinkable hedgerow! Come and join the forest garden quest! Check out the Old Tree fb page for the event details
Delivering drinks to @silobrighton today, good to brush the dust of the rickshaw now the☀️is shining!
First Old Tree Permablitz to-create the edible landscape @fieldbtn last month was great fun! All age groups including families attended the activities. Next Friday we're hosting our second event event with the theme of compost and edible salads - Working Like Giant Earth Worms!! Check out the event on the the Old Tree Facebook page for all info if you may be able to make it and help us spread the word if you can! #growthechangeyouwishtosee #permablitz #brighton #ediblelandscapes #communitygardening
Bottled Old Tree Kombucha has landed!! Available on Wednesday from our cafe @fieldbtn and Coming soon to independent shops, cafe's and eateries around Brighton - contact us though oldtree.house for more info! We may even be able to arrange a monthly fermented drink delivery to your door via rickshaw.
Quarterly drink the season menu!! All these drinks available to order now or by the glass from us at @oldtreebrewery @fieldbtn next week!!! DRINK UP & spread the word folk, thank you!!
Today we fed the giant vinegar mother that we harvested from the 2015 Apple Cyder Vinegar batch produced from scratch - with 40 litres of fresh new cyder from our 2016 batch!! Let's see how quickly she makes incredible organic bioactive Cyder Vinegar now!! #loveyourmother #feedherwell #SCRUMPtiousmaximus #cydervinegar #smallbatchcreations Made by #oldtreebrewery @fieldbtn
February events at Old Tree @fieldbtn - diaries out people! All info at Oldtree.house/events
We had a great time at Seedy Sunday today - what a brilliant event!! We're going all out for herb growing and perennial salads @fieldbtn this season - swapped some of our seeds saved for sweet peas and runner beans to climb all over the willow structures we wove. We also couldn't resist getting some incredible plants such as UGNI - the Chilean Guava and Japanese Wine Berry which can climb up trees and give lots of fruit!! #intothefuturegardening #getgrowing #saveseeds #forestgardens #swapplants #botanicaldrinks #growthechange #oldtree
Great picture from our first edible landscape Permablitz this year - Gillian and Free helping woodchip the forest garden we're creating @fieldbtn ! This is where all our drinks are available and our cafe is open from Tuesday to Saturday. Come and visit the only place on Brighton where you can enjoy fermented drinks in a forest garden, made from forest gardens - and help us spread the word if you can! #Botanicaldrinks #ediblelandscapes #fieldhouse #drinktheseason #communitygardening #permablitzbrighton #oldtree
Old Tree vegan mega chef Ames has started baking us cakes for the cafe and events!! We will still be stocking the amazing @goshpatisserie cakes in the cafe but will often have a greater selection now.. YUM 🍰
This week we have the most delicious Gooseberry Water Kefir and raw cold pressed Apple juice - special offer of just £1.50 a glass in @oldtreecafe @fieldbtn - through this red tunnel on Lewes road! Drop by for a free taste if you've never tried the probiotic drink Kefir before! It's delicious and benefits digestion and immunity. Also available by the bottle to 👌🥃🍾🍋💫

We are working on our first demonstration Drink Forest garden next to our Brewhouse Café located at FIELD BTN. Opposite Brighton University's Mithras House – found here.

This is a new space to sit and enjoy craft drinks on this previously desert-like strip of Lewes Road. A place of sensory plant exploration and the revival of fermentation. Our time at FIELD is limited so we are making the most of the time we have! Keep an eye on our events page for all exciting future happenings, and be sure to visit us to say hello and enjoy our freshly prepared food and drink.