Saturday 3 & Sunday 4 September | 10am-5pm | £70 (or £35 for one day). Hawkwood Plant Nursery, 115 Hawkwood Crescent, E4 7UH Booking via Organic Lea: www.organiclea.org.uk email: courses@organiclea.org.uk This two-day course is for anyone from beginners to experienced beekeepers who are interested in learning about more sustainable...
To celebrate the harvest season Waltham Forest Council are organising free compost to refresh your growing plots. Bring a shovel and bags to help yourself. Compost piles are springing up at these locations around the borough throughout the Cultivate Festival from the 3 - 11 September. Venues: ...
Thursday 1 September | 6pm - 8.30pm | Free Entry Venue TBC Booking & Info: cultivatingfoodprojects.eventbrite.co.uk Food is wonderful and problematic, it needs to be celebrated as well as critically altered and a lot is happening in Waltham Forest to do both. Poppy Flint, seasoned in mixing community engagement,...
Feast your eyes on our Autumn Programme! ...
.... with ‘Preparing the Ground’ Tips and Advice Sunday 13 March 2.30-5pm Leytonstone Library, 6 Church Lane, Leytonstone E11 1HG This event was for novice and experienced growers. There were information sessions with tips about getting your growing spaces ready for planting summer crops AND a question and...
Saturday 12 March, 1-3pm Pocket Park Opening, Ive Farm Close, Leyton E10 5HQ The latest Community Food Growing Garden in the borough was opened on Saturday, 12th March. Attendees took part in a seed sowing workshop: sowed chillies & tomatoes to grow on at home – seeds, compost...
Look out for local food growing experts at a venue near you! This was a great opportunity to get one-to-one advice about your own food growing ideas for 2016; to pick up your Cultivate Grow Your Own Starter Pack, and information about food growing projects in...
Forming a Food Partnership Held on Wednesday 9 March, 4.30-7pm, Leytonstone Library, 6 Church Lane, E11 1HG. For community groups, food growers, allotment holders, farmers, food businesses, suppliers of locally grown or sourced foods, Public Health officers, teachers and anyone interested in food issues. We believe Waltham Forest’s Local...
To celebrate the growing season Waltham Forest Council are organising free compost to refresh your growing plots. Bring a shovel and bags to help yourself. Compost piles are springing up at these locations around the borough throughout the Cultivate Festival: 5-13 March: Large car park,...
Join the Cultivate Challenge and enter your home grown harvest successes and surprises in the Cultivate Produce Show in September. With categories for fresh and preserved produce we look forward to celebrating your delicious crops! More details to follow on the Produce Show. Pick up your Grow...