The green meet Sunday 2 May, 11.00 - 16.00
Printed on recycled paper, please recycle me Welcome and precautions
We will be putting a number of precautions in place to follow government guidance on events in light of coronavirus. At the green meet, we ask that you help us by following the measures below, and any guidance given by a member of the Palace team.
Please stick to the ‘rule of 6’ when you are on site. Our staff including security team will be checking group sizes and will ask anyone in a group of more than six to leave the site. We will be capping numbers coming onto the site and in the walled garden, so please be patient if you are asked to wait. We ask that if you have a picnic please enjoy it on the main lawn or in another area of the botanic garden rather than the walled garden. Please take any litter home with you to recycle.
You will find hand sanitiser on stalls; we ask that you sanitise your hands regularly, particularly after touching your face, eating or using the facilities. Please follow the ‘1 metre +’ rules, keeping a distance from other visitors and staff, including when you’re queuing. If possible, please pay using card or contactless on the stalls in the garden.
A band will be playing throughout the day and we have a speaker tent with a cooking demonstration in the morning and talks in the afternoon. Please keep a distance from the front and other attendees while you watch the talks.
If you have any concerns or questions please speak to a team member who will be happy to help.
We ask for your co-operation and support in adhering to these measures to ensure the Palace is a safe and enjoyable environment for all.
2 Area 1 Area 4 Area 5 Welcome desk Raffle Talks tent Children’s activity Museum shop Green woodworkers H&F Cyclists Drawing room cafe Pete’s ponds Huski Home Artbranco Seed swap 5 Imagine 2030 Bees & Refugees Beekeepers Lime e-bikes Circla Preserves / garden volunteers Marleybones Clean U Cut flowers 4 No Waste Jose FPMAA GYO help desk Garden barrow Rereadable Karavan Eco Plant ID Sewing bee Kind 2 i Thames 21 South London Botanical Walk & Cycle London Institute The Ginger Planet Area 2 Virginutty Pop up Palace Wild Scent Botanics 3 Area 3 Band tent Taster talks Dough & Deer 2 En Root It’s Gelato Albury Vineyard Crumbs brewing Silent Pool Gin Garden games Storytelling meeting point Mini tours meeting point Toilets
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Mini tours and storytelling 3 meeting point Green meet event programme
Mini tours Talks tent On the lawn Secret storytelling Our mini tours are led by We’ve got guest speakers and a Grab a bite to eat and enjoy Be whisked off to a secret a member of the Fulham live chef’s demonstration in our music, games and taster talks location for storytelling in this Palace garden team talks tent - see P8 for full details family friendly activity
11.00 11.15 Woodland & birds mini tour 11.15 - 12.15
11.30 Compost mini tour Live sustainable cooking Storytelling for families in a 11.45 Grass & wildflowers mini tour demonstration with chef Albury Vineyard: biodynamic & secret woodland location Philip Howard 12.00 Compost mini tour organic winemaking taster talk 12.15 Woodland & birds mini tour 12.30 Grass & wildflowers mini tour 12.45 13.00 13.00 - 15.35 Band perform 13.15
13.30 Silent Pool: botanicals used in Storytelling for families in a 13.45 Woodland & birds mini tour Short talks from biodiversity gin-making taster talk secret woodland location experts. 14.00 See the detailed speaker 14.15 programme and biographies for full details Band perform 14.30 14.45 Compost mini tour
15.00 Crumbs Brewing: food waste Storytelling for families in a 15.15 Grass & wildflowers mini tour transformed into beer taster talk secret woodland location 15.30 15.45 Band perform 16.00
Mini tours meeting point All of the talks are free to attend. Secret storytelling Walled garden info desk Please be mindful of others meeting point 5 (see map on p4) around you. Spaces are given on Walled garden info desk 6 a first come first served basis (see map on p4) Talks tent programme Area 5
11.15 - 12.15 Sustainable and seasonal recipes: Chef Philip Howard a demonstration
Sian Harrington, 13.00 Introduction Fulham Palace CEO 13.05 Research into historic collections and Dr Mark Spencer plant surveys at the Palace 13.15 Past work and future plans in the Palace Lucy Hart garden
13.35 - 13.45 Break
13.45 Sustainable, thoughtful planting and the Russell Miller work of the Tree Musketeers 13.55 Introduction to bees and issues bees in Mark Patterson London are facing and how you can help 14.05 Issues for biodiversity in London and Dusty Gedge practical solutions for your own home 14.15 ‘Nature connection’: building a connection Paul Lawston to the natural world 14.25 Community activism and how to get Katie Boyles involved: the Warren Farm case study 14.35 Broadening access to nature including Judy Ling Wong inclusive interpretation 14.45 De-colonising museums and access to Miranda Lowe natural history collections and knowledge
14.55 - 15.05 Break
15.05 Q&A chaired by Paul Beaty-Pownall All speakers
End 15.35 8 Speakers Philip Howard is the chef/co-owner of Elystan Street in London SW3 which has amassed many awards - including a Michelin star in 2017. Phil’s distinctive modern French food has enjoyed huge consumer success. Its reputation has been forged through the delivery of pleasure through harmony of flavour rather than technical wizardry or innovation. Phil is an active member of The Royal Academy of Culinary Arts and sits on both the management and the sustainability committees. He has also written two critically acclaimed cookbooks.
Mark Spencer is an experienced botanist with in-depth knowledge of the plant life of Britain and Europe. His botanical interests are wide-ranging but currently are particularly focused on the historic and non-native floras of London. He is the Botanical Society of the British Isles vice-county recorder for Middlesex and the vascular plant recorder for the London Natural History Society. He also has considerable knowledge and experience of museum curation and the use of botanical collections in forensics, climate change research and the history of botany. Mark is the honorary botany curator at the Linnean Society of London and has particular interest in ‘early-modern’ botany.
Lucy Hart is head gardener at Fulham Palace. Lucy started in horticulture at the age of 13 working Saturdays at a local plant nursery, she continued to get experience and later went on to gain a degree in horticulture. Work experience in other gardens including Beth Chatto’s, Powis Castle and Great Dixter opened her eyes to gardening and growing in a public garden setting. In 2003 Lucy started the Kew Diploma. After eight fantastic years at Kew, Lucy was lucky enough to get the head gardener role at Fulham Palace in 2011, which has kept her very busy ever since! Fulham Palace Russell Miller is a conservation arboriculturalist and an café is invertebrate ecologist. He specialises in managing old trees, tree pathology and tree fungi, ecology and physiology of now open ancient trees, decaying wood invertebrates, urban insect communities (especially bees and other pollinators) and Enjoy the Palace garden with tree establishment in challenging conditions. He co-founded a hot cup of coffee or a slice and runs Hackney’s multi-award winning Tree Musketeers; has been chair of the Ancient Tree Forum; co-founded of cake Sustainable Hackney; helped found The Orchard Project; and worked with pioneering Scottish rewilding charity Trees Open daily, 9.30 - 17.00 for Life. Discover at home Mark Patterson has a wealth of knowledge and experience in ecological monitoring and practical nature conservation work gained through previous employments with major Discover at home is a special version of Arts Award Discover, the environmental charities including the RSPB, National Trust first level of Arts Award. Discover at home enables children to be and Groundwork. Mark is an experienced beekeeper and rewarded for the creative activities they enjoy. It supports children in 2011 aided Fulham Palace in returning honey bees to the grounds following evidence of historical beekeeping on our to connect with local museums, theatres and arts activities and site. Mark is a prolific wild bee recorder and delivers the engaging in arts activities online or at home. Our logbook will help ‘learn to love bees’ training program in London as part of the children explore the garden at Fulham Palace. nationwide biolinks project. Join the Palace cat Edmund, as he discovers the hidden stories of the Palace gardens and Dusty Gedge is a consultant with the Green infrastructure create their own fantastical artwork from consultancy. He is the current President of the European Federation of Green Roof Associations, founder of Livingroofs. home. org, and a board member of GRO - the UK greenroof trade body. Though he has a particular interest in biodiversity and To discover at home visit urban nature, his work in the built environment also focuses on climate resilience and the promotion of greener cities fulhampalace.org/resources through multi-functional green infrastructure.
Paul Lawson is currently the Learning Manager at WWT London Wetland Centre, overseeing education programmes Arts Award: explore for schools and families in this 105 acre urban nature reserve. He is passionate about the environment and engaging people with the natural world, particularly during the 1 - 3 June 2021 • 10.00-16.00 • ages 7 to 13 pandemic when connection to nature has provided much needed respite to many people.
Join Fulham Palace this half term as we delve into the past to discover the secrets of the garden party. Come and explore the wonderland of the Bishops’ tea parties with humungous hats, incredible cakes Katie Boyles is a trustee of Brent River & Canal Society and the odd runaway emu! Children will create art (BRCS), and is leading a campaign group to designate Warren Farm (a 61-acre rewilded urban meadow in Ealing) inspired by the Palace and receive an official Arts and its surrounding Brent River Park Meadows, with Local Award certificate. Nature Reserve designation. Katie will be sharing her experiences and lessons-learned along the way of her journey so far, from a fully dog-walking-nature-loving-lay- person to a passionate, bewildered, monocular-carrying Free • Booking required • Spaces limited local activist. Nature Needs You! For more information email [email protected] 12 Judy Ling Wong OBE is a painter, poet and environmentalist, best known as the Honorary President of Black Environment Network (BEN). For 27 years she was the UK Director of BEN, with an international reputation as the pioneer and creator of the field of multi-cultural participation in the built and natural environment. Judy is a major voice on policy and practice towards social inclusion. Judy was awarded an OBE for pioneering multicultural environmental participation in 2000, and a CBE for services to heritage in 2007. Recently, she was included in the BBC Power Women List, the Forbes List of 100 Leading Environmentalists in the UK and on Earth Day 2021 she was awarded a green plaque.
Miranda Lowe is s a principal curator and scientist at the Natural History Museum, London. She presents lectures and publishes on both curatorial and scientific research. Her media work with creative industries allows her to link art, science, and nature to aid the public understanding of the natural world. She is a founding member of Museum Detox, a network for people of colour who work in arts and the heritage sector, championing fair representation, inclusion, and deconstruction of systems of inequality. She is chair of arts charity Culture&, trustee at York Museums Trust and Oxford University Museum of Natural History. Miranda was a finalist in the National Diversity Awards 2013 and listed in the BBC Women’s Hour Power List 2020: Our Planet.
Paul Beaty-Pownall is the Chairperson for the LBHF Resident Led Climate and Ecological Commission (CEEC) that has been set up to support the council in its ambition to reduce the borough’s carbon emissions to zero by 2030. Paul believes that a zero-carbon future is something to look forward to and that it is now time for us all to work together to build a community that measures success through high levels of well-being for everyone. It has become increasingly understood by all parts of our society that urgent action is now needed to protect ourselves from the worst impacts of climate change. This shared understanding gives Paul hope that the action needed might also bring our divided society Sunday 6 June 2021, 14.30 - 17.00 together through positive changes in behaviour. Enjoy an afternoon of family friendly outdoor theatre on the lawn at Fulham Palace.
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