Our network of community gardeners comes together to share the inspiration, knowledge, and resources needed to create and sustain community gardens in Walworth. Through our community gardens we meet our neighbours, improve the local area, grow and share food, increase biodiversity, and support everyone’s wellbeing. Our Structure: We are a decentralised voluntary network. That means it is run by the Continue Reading
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Walworth – Home of the Britains
Join us in listening to a fantastic podcast around the history of East Walworth and its horticultural heritage. Devised by the acclaimed and award winning local blue badge guide Isobel Durrant. This podcast was commissioned by WCGN following a successful guided walk led by Isobel back in October 2021. Starting from St Peter’s Church and wending through memorable spaces leadng Continue Reading
Tool Maintenance Workshop
We co-hosted a wonderful workshop alongside @pact_southwark on Saturday at their community plot at Caspian Street Allotments 🌞🌞🌞 Russell Miller an arboriculturist & ecologist came down to share skills on sharpening, maintaining and repairing tools. Was super informative and helpful to share this practical knowledge with network members & the wider community 🪚🗜🪓 Tool longevity is a MUST especially when the statistics Continue Reading
Glengall Wharf Garden
Set up by community members in 2011, Glengall Wharf Garden is run by a dedicated team of volunteers and provides a space for local residents to attend volunteer gardening sessions, grow food and participate in a variety of workshops, ranging from permaculture and forest gardening, to balcony and inside growing. It is a peaceful oasis built by the community, for Continue Reading
Spring Social
How to Use Your Polytunnel Workshop
Heritage, Horticulture & History: Walking Tour of Camberwell
EP1 Composting Video with Chris Collins
Guide to the Winter Garden: A series
During the autumn we had Chris Collins come and join us at the Walworth Allotment Association in Fielding Street, for an afternoon of learning how to prepare our garden spaces, for the winter. He gave us practical demonstrations on one of the plots of the allotment on the topics of Seed sowing in drills Sowing a pollinator border Take cuttings Continue Reading
Festive Wreath-Making
Last Saturday, we supported the Brandon Estate growers and organised a wreath making workshop for the network and community members. Network members and the community, had the chance to to learn how to create their own wreath. The room was filled with old faces and new, all coming together to close the year creating a piece for their homes over Continue Reading