Yesterday we had such a good turnout of folk from all different south London growing projects come down to Glengall Wharf Garden and learn about composting 🪱🌿🪵🗑♻️🌡🔑⚱️✨ Jack Narbed covered a lot and made it super accessible to understand. He guided us through the differences between composts, particularly commercial and homemade. We covered some of the science between creating our own and Continue Reading
Introduction to Composting
COMPOSTING WORKSHOP 🪱🪵🗓🌿Come and join our FREE workshop Saturday 9th April.An introduction to composting! @glengallwharfgarden with facilitator @jack_narbed Jack will be covering ✨how to get started with composting✨composting at different scales✨hot vs cold composting ✨different techniques It’s been hugely requested from lots of gardens to have to hear and see this knowledge in a practical context. So I hope to see many familiar and new faces Continue Reading
How to Use Your Polytunnel Workshop
Heritage & Horticulture – walking tour of Camberwell
Our second walking tour on Saturday hosted by Isobel Durrant had us walking through the social and horticultural history of Camberwell. We were taught so much about the evolution of the area, from where we began in Burgess Park which was once home to market gardens and a windmill for producing the grain grown in the area to the renovated Continue Reading
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
Composting event
As one of the last events of the year, we were fortunate to have facilitator Jack Narbed with us, at the Kennington Park Road Community Garden. We had a lovely turn out of guests from residents to network members. All brought together to learn about the magic of composting. The session covered: The basics of composting – getting started Different Continue Reading
Surrey Square School
Craft & Cooking Sessions October 2021 It has been really refreshing to spend time with the young people at Surrey Square School, they are inquisitive, eager to learn and all are so encouraging to one another when working as a group. Our last two sessions we have focused on making a pumpkin seed-pesto together and preparing a salad. Our collaboration Continue Reading