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Capital Growth Edible Open Gardens Day Saturday 15 September 2012 Over 50 community food-growing spaces opening to the public Visit a number of sites on a walking tour Learn about food-growing in urban environments Discover your local community growing space Enjoy activities and sample local produce Capital Growth Edible Open Gardens Day Saturday 15 September 2012 In association with Caledonian Park and Community Orchard Market Road, Islington, N7 9PL. 11am to 5pm Community orchard maintained by the Caledonian Park Users Group, adding biodiversity to an historic park, on the site of the Metropolitan Cattle Market opened in 1855.Light refreshments, apple tasting and other apple-related activities. Entrances in Market Road & via Drovers Way & Shearling Way, off North Road. Tube: Caledonian Road. Buses 390, 274 & 393. Camden BME Alliance 110 Camley St, N1C 4PF. 9am to 5pm Raised beds growing Chinese crops inc goji berries, community compost hub, orchard, vineyard and a Permaculture Forest Garden. Site tours, plants for sale & refreshments using produce from the garden. North 10 mins walk from Kings Cross. Camden Community Box Scheme 110 - 112 Camley Street, N1C 4PF. 24 hrs opening, but we recommend coming in daylight! Alara Cereals at Camley Street is supporting Camden Community by providing a space for residents to unleash their inner gardener. Boxes have been prepared to accomodate any plants, with unrestricted access so aspiring gardeners can contribute to them. Disabled Access Toilets London King’s Cross & St Pancras Station, Disabled Toilets Camden Road Overground. Car Park King’s Cross Orchard Dogs Allowed 106 Camley Street, N1C 4PF. 24 hr opening A recent addition to Camley Street’s Plants for Sale repertoire of horticultural sites, the King’s Refreshments Cross Orchard is a great example of how to start an inner city smallholding. Many Tours apple trees have been planted, producing Family Activities an abundance of fruit along Camley Street Talks verge. garden from the end of 2009. It has a forest garden, veg plots for the café, herb gardens, London King’s Cross Station, Camden Road an area with mini-plots and hosts a Growing Overground Station. Communities market garden. CHUG Floating Allotment CHUG, Kingsland Basin, Regent’s Canal, Tube: Manor House (piccadilly line) buses London, N1 5BB. 11am to 4pm 341 and 141. CHUG grow food and keep bees and ducks on a barge. The produce is used by the Regent’s Park Estate Gardening Plots community or for Pop-Up Cafes/open days. It Pangbourne, Regent’s Park Estate, NW1 was set up with the help of Shoreditch Trust 3ED. 11am to 7pm and won the London Green Corner Awards in 27 small growing spaces and 10 different 2010. Pop-up café with tea and cakes using nationalities growing indigenous produce from produce from the allotment. Two beekeepers their own countries. will be on hand to answer your questions. Bus to National Temperance Hospital, 88,134 On the Regent’s Canal just before Kingsland 24,27. Go up Robert Street, take first turning Road as you walk along the towpath from on left onto Stanhope Street and second Angel. turning on right, opposite Pangbourne block. Evering Road Kitchen Garden Regent’s Park Allotment Garden St Paul’s Hall (West Hackney Church), Corner of Chester Road and the Inner Circle, Evering Road, Stoke Newington, N16 7UY. The Regents Park, NW1 4NR. 11am to 4pm Noon to 4pm The Regent’s Park Allotment Garden is the The garden was set up by North London flagship site of Capital Growth. The purpose Action for the Homeless - a drop in for of the space is to show what you can grow homeless and vulnerable people. Vegetables and how you can grow it, whatever the size of grown are used in the kitchen. They are open your space! to anyone interested in gardening and involve service users in the care of the garden. Located at the corner of Chester Road and the Inner Circle, next to the park office. Greener Minds Tube: Great Portland Street, Regent’s Park or Station House, 73C Stapleton Hall Road, Baker Street London, N4 4ED. 11am to 4pm Created by the service users 18 months ago, FOOD from the SKY a derelict piece of land has been transformed Roof of Thornton’s Budgens, 21-23 The into a thriving allotment. Mind in Haringey is Broadway, Crouch End, N8 9PJ. 3pm to 6pm a registered charity supporting people living Set up to inspire and grow healthy and with mental health. A scrumptious lunch for sustainable relationships between food, cities anyone who would like to get stuck in. & with supermarkets. The project grows and sells salad on the roof of Budgens. They also run educational programmes for individuals Blue & white building by the old station bridge. and schools. Informal tours, fresh herb teas, plants & produce for sale. Castle Climbing Centre Garden Green Lanes, London, N4 2HA. 11am to 4pm Access from Crouch Hall Road. Nearest 1.2 acre garden as part of the climbing buses W7 from Finsbury Park or 41 from centre. It was transformed as a productive Archway and 91 from King’s Cross. Angell Terrace Garden 341- 361 Brixton Road, SW9 7DA. 11am to 4pm In a 60m x 20m space, there is a small vineyard, orchard, herb and vegetable beds and lots of flowers. Try food from the garden for a small donation and seed swaps. Tube: Brixton- turn right and walk along Brixton Road. Angell Terrace, 341-361 is just past the police station. Buses 3, 159, 133, 415, 2, 432, 322. Alight at Police Station. Cowley Food Farm Cowley Estate, Gosling Way, SW9 6LZ. 11am to 4pm An urban veg growing area and leisure garden space featuring the Ark. The South community garden has been established for three years by residents and is in the heart of a Lambeth council housing estate. There will be a BBQ, apple pressing, bird box building and wheat harvesting. Access From Brixton Road onto Cowley Estate. The Food Farm is towards Vassall Road in Gosling Way Cressingham Gardeners Cressingham Gardens Estate, SW2 2NE. 11am to 4pm A food growing scheme on a housing estate. Food crops are integrated into existing shrub plantings. There is a range of community composting schemes.There will be guided Disabled Access tours of the garden as well as refreshments. Toilets Disabled Toilets Car Park Spencer Park Community Gardens 14 Spencer Park, SW18 2SY. 11am to 4pm Dogs Allowed A former derelict space surrounded by nature Plants for Sale in a listed conservation area. Now an award- winning landscaped space with planters, fruit Refreshments trees, a lovely shed, composting areas, water Tours butts and recycled plastic benches. Discover our community gardens and meet our resident Family Activities gardeners and food growers. Talks Alder Road Community Garden parking area into an attractive, productive, Alder Road, SW14 8ER. 11am to 4pm green space. Following their first anniversary Community Garden growing vegetables, fruit and crop of vegetables, visitors can see their and flowers. A hidden gem in Mortlake. second in the process of being grown! BBQ 2pm, tile-painting art workshop, seed swap, plant swap. Home Park Community Gardens Sydenham Road, Sydenham, SE26 5SE. 11am to 4pm Located opposite Butterfly Walk Shopping Six large raised beds and other smaller Centre, Morrisons’ end, entrance to the left. growing areas. There are a mix of users including a local school and library. At 11.30 The MVMNT Cafe Garden am Anthony Scully will give a talk on the birth 159 Greenwich High Road, SE10 8JA. and development of the garden, followed by 11am to 3pm a talk from Liz Cranwell Ward on our growing Growing a huge range of herbs, four apple ambitions and plans for the future. varieties, olives and vegetables all used in the cafe menu and for workshops. Wild walks identifying local foraging opportunities. Locally Train stations; Lower Sydenham; Sydenham; made ice cream & sorbets, herbs and plants Penge East. Bus 202; 75; 356; 194; 181 for sale and jam making sessions. Brunel Museum Gardens Brunel Museum, Railway Avenue, Greenwich DLR and Greenwich Rail station. Rotherhithe, SE16 4LF. 10am to 10pm Take the 177, 188, 199, 386, bus. Secret rooftop garden above Brunel’s Grand Entrance Hall. Flowers and fruits and a giant The Secret Orchard sundial ringed with stove pipe hats. Descents Cafe Crema, 306 New Cross Road, SE14 through the afternoon into the secret chamber 6AF. 11am to 4pm beneath the garden (£5). From 5pm onwards Soft fruit, wildlife garden and urban orchard Apothecary Gardener is serving cocktails with with standard fruit trees and espalier wall. fruit and herbs from the potager garden. Potting shed with small reference library, greenhouse and ducks. Gardens and café will be open. Vegetarian, vegan and fair trade Overground: Rotherhithe. Turn left outside teas and coffees, home made cakes. station, immediately left up Railway Avenue. Bethwin Road Adventure Playground Train stations:New Cross Gate or New Cross Bethwin Road Adventure Playground, SE5 0YY. Noon to 5pm Dulwich Vegetable Garden Bethwin Playround is a free playground for Rosebery Lodge, Dulwich Park, SE21 7BQ. children aged 5-15. Most of the children 11am to 4pm have very little other contact with nature and Organic community fruit and veg garden wildlife. The bees at Bethwin have been a now in its third growing season. Aim is to great success. Come and meet Jack the encourage local people to have a go at beekeeper and learn about the bees. growing their own. Entirely run by volunteers, who share the produce. Colonnades Greening Project Rosebery Lodge is adjacent to the Rosebery Colonnades Flats, 8 Wren Road, Camberwell Gate entrance to Dulwich Park, off the Green, SE5 8QS. 11am to 4pm Dulwich Common (no vehicle access).
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