GROW URBAN FESTIVAL

Embark on a journey into the captivating world of medicinal mushrooms. This workshop unlocks ancient wisdom and modern marvels, exploring fungi’s powerhouse health benefits, rich cultural heritage, and culinary versatility. Discover traditional remedies while connecting with passionate mycophiles. Whether you’re a novice or seasoned mushroom lover, get inspired to embrace...

All week and at your own time and pace. Embark on an exciting journey around Morden Hall Park and immerse yourself in nature while searching for small caches hidden around the Park. Use the map and decipher the hints that lead to the caches, tucked away in the nooks and...

A hands-on workshop where you will discover the magical world of insects and their vital role in our ecosystems. Build your own bug hotel and learn sustainable practices to attract pollinators and support biodiversity in urban environments. This workshop is repeated on Sunday 9th June at Morden Hall Park.

Come and join Earth Tenders in the Dulwich Vegetable Garden for insights into their first year of growing cultural food and see how they are developing local connections. Join their drop-in volunteering session, learn about the organisation’s achievements and dreams, and sip fresh-harvested herbal teas with them.
Donations for the...

A hands-on workshop where you will discover the magical world of insects and their vital role in our ecosystems. Build your own bug hotel and learn sustainable practices to attract pollinators and support biodiversity in urban environments.

A wellbeing session at our community garden, which will include a sound bath, crafts and teas. The session is about providing a space for mindfulness and moment to commune with nature and feel the wellbeing benefits of being outside in the fresh air.
Organised by Stoneford Community Garden (National Trust)

Stitching Gardens Together brings together two hands-on art workshops exploring practices of creating and protesting for gardens and green public spaces in London’s urban fabric. We will be building on Morden Hall’s industrial past and history of opening up its grounds for children and becoming a publicly accessible park for...

The Grow Farm run by WeAreGrow alongside Totteridge Academy in 6 acres of Green Belt land adjacent to the school. is An opportunity for all the family to visit the farm to experience everything the farm has to offer in full. The Day will include tours of the growing spaces,...

Morden Hall Park’s youth volunteer group, this event will embrace sustainability and creativity as we come together to turn discarded materials into beautiful, functional plant pots. After decorating an upcycled pot, participants will be able to fill it with compost made on site at Morden Hall Park and then sow...

Join this fishbowl session exploring how plant and fungi ecologies can reframe our human relationships, systems and designs. Drawing on botanical science, world-building practice and science fiction we will look at how inspiration from plants and fungi can pave the way for greener, symbiotic futures.
This session will be facilitated...

A tour of the rooftop farm and a tasting of food produced by one or more of the restaurants/businesses that the farm supplies. Donations £10 to £30

DIY mushroom growing workshop: Join us for a two-hour session, where you’ll learn all about mycelium and how to cultivate delicious oyster mushrooms at home. We’ll demonstrate how to use the DIY kit, talking you through step-by-step and answering any questions so that you’ll feel confident in trying out your...

Mission Kitchen is a food innovation hub. This will start with a 30-minute guided tour of Mission Kitchen, then tour including the urban farming space created with Urban Canopy. This will be followed by a tasting of in-season, just-picked produce, along with snacks made by Mission Kitchen members using some...

The ethics on which permaculture builds are: “Care of the Earth: Provision for all life systems to continue and multiply”. “Care of people: Provision for people to access those resources necessary for their existence”. Our community gardener, Mary Acton Adams, will outline the ethics of permaculture. Mary will give examples...

Run entirely by volunteers, Morden Hall Park’s Community Kitchen Garden grows a huge amount of produce each year from beans to pumpkins, tomatoes to rhubarb. The produce from the garden supports Merton’s Community Fridge – a long-term initiative to tackle food poverty and reduce food waste in Merton

An introductory talk on the fascinating world of fungi, mycelium networks and the ‘wood wide web’. Maymana Arefin will summarise her own research about mycorrhizal fungi and what we can learn from their networks as humans. The event will explore themes of social justice, such as mutual aid and community...

Cleve West is a multi-award winning Garden designer, one of the most well respected landscape designers in the world and a committed Vegan.
In this conversation we will discuss Cleves book “The Garden of Vegan” to discuss the ideas, methods and thinking behind his vegan outlook to gardening, how easy...

A tour of Global Generation’s “Story Garden”, case studies from funders working in urban greening, an opportunity to network with environmental funders, and much more.
 
This event is restricted to  environmental funders and to the contacts person.

Join us for an enlightening conversation on “Greening and Growing Better in Urban London.” This event delves into the intricacies of urban agriculture, sharing inspiring stories, innovative ideas, and practical solutions for enhancing the growing scene in our city. From community gardens to rooftop farms, we’ll address the challenges faced...

See how a school community, in partnership with local charity Natural Neighbours, has transformed the school grounds and collaborated to spread wildlife habitat across the neighbourhood. Tonnes of lifeless AstroTurf have been removed and replaced with trees, shrubs, meadow mounds, a wildlife pond and wending pathways for students and adults...

Join us for a drop-in tour at R-Urban, a community reuse/recycling hub where our mushroom farm is located. You’ll hear about how we set up the farm and get an overview of the mushroom growing process. You’ll also:

find out about an exciting planned closed-loop installation later this year, when we...

Join us for a drop-in tour at R-Urban, a community reuse/recycling hub where our mushroom farm is located. You’ll hear about how we set up the farm and get an overview of the mushroom growing process. You’ll also:

find out about an exciting planned closed-loop installation later this year, when we...

Join us for a drop-in tour at R-Urban, a community reuse/recycling hub where our mushroom farm is located. You’ll hear about how we set up the farm and get an overview of the mushroom growing process. You’ll also:

find out about an exciting planned closed-loop installation later this year, when we...

This will include a number of short talks in the morning on local nature recovery and discussion of progress towards the Hackney Nature Recovery Project with examples of projects in Hackney.  This will be ollowed by an afternoon tour visiting some of projects

Enjoy home-grown and home-cooked food served by community cooks, with the menu designed by children, and served by children at this new Primary School in Stratford, whilst also seeing how the playground area is being transformed into a wild space

FROG Learning CIC oversees the management of the green space by working alongside young adults with learning disabilities. There is a community garden for food growing, a small woodland with a campfire zone and a natural art installation, a small orchard, a big pond and loads of other space for...

A get-together of around 25 young environmental activists during The Great Big Green Week, which will enable people to take stock of what they have been doing, share ideas, explore options for raising funds towards their work, and experiences, and discuss and solve the problems and issues they are facing...

Black Girls Hike aims to increase diverse representation of black and brown women from diverse communities to engage in guided walks. This walk will provide a safe space for participants to take in London’s green spaces, whilst learning about sustainable food growing through an interactive talk and workshop focusing on...

A celebration and showcasing of the amazing transformation the Daubeney Primary School community, in partnership with local charity Natural Neighbours, has made to the school grounds. Tonnes of lifeless AstroTurf have been removed and replaced with trees, shrubs, meadow mounds, a wildlife pond and wending pathways for students and adults...

Part talk, part exhibition and part networking this event will celebrate the creation of a co-produced planting installation soon to be on display in the Museum’s new gardens. The planters are filled with plants of significance to people within the communities of North Kensington and have been produced in partnership...

A summer foraging walk in the urban wilds, learning about the many edible and medicinal plants that grow all around us. This introductory course will equip you with the basics in plant identification, wild culinary skills, and responsible harvesting, to embark on your own foraging journey. Includes wild drink, snacks...

A mix of practical workshops focused on outdoor education for professionals supporting children to learn and explore in natural spaces and for the Hackney community to get the opportunity to learn about the benefits of getting out into nature and the provisions that are available to them. There will be pop-ups...

Sioban Wall (Growing Concerns) and Joseph Cook (UCL Geography) invite you to a community get-together to network with fellow growers and discuss the future of plants in east London. From public parks to campaigns to re-open garden centres, we will have several local speakers talking about their work. There will...

A creative workshop with artist Maymana Arefin to admire, appreciate and illustrate the vast array of mushrooms all around us. Any or no experience with art and drawing welcome! We will be using paints and pastels to illustrate mushrooms together, whilst the facilitator shares knowledge about them. This event will...

Join us for Freddy’s Blossom Walk! We’ll be walking a 3-mile section of the route from Blythe Hill in Catford to Telegraph Hill in New Cross, taking in some of the freshest blossom and flowers to arrive in South London in early Summer. Freddy’s Blossom Walk is a circular route...

Stitching Gardens Together brings together two hands-on art workshops exploring practices of creating and protesting for gardens and green public spaces in London’s urban fabric. We will be building on Morden Hall’s industrial past and history of opening up its grounds for children and becoming a publicly accessible park for...

Visit the Lancaster West Estate situated in the shadow of Grenfell Tower and meet the Food Growing Club. Run by local residents to see how they are using some of the green spaces on the estate to grow food