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Volunteer session
Join us 11 am - 1 pm for our open volunteer sessions
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Session details to follow nearer the time
Volunteer session
Join us 11 am - 1 pm for our open volunteer sessions
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Session details to follow nearer the time
Soil Scapes in collaboration with SLBl At Dulwich Picture Gallery
We’ll be hosting in collaboration with the South London Botanical lnstitute - Soil Scapes - as part of the Dulwich Picture Gallery’s Soulscapes Late. A chance to enjoy the exhibition after hours, and connect with the spaces and communities around us.
During our workshop we’ll be exploring soil scapes through microscopes, mythology and clay hand-building. Expect to leave rich with stories of soil and seed.
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We’re part of a sweet line-up with our dear friend Bekah of @earthchildremedies leading foraging walks around the gallery’s grounds and our folks @enrootldn serving up delicious grub.
Drop in for free between 6 -10 pm & find details about the event here.
Earth Tenders x GROW Festival 2024
Come and join us in the garden to hear about our first year of growing cultural food and local connections at the DVG. More details to follow nearer the time!
The GROW Festival is a week-long series of events across London coinciding with the Great Big Green Week, 8-16th June. A big thank you to Sal Chebbah of @elysianroots and Charles Dowding @charlesdowding for supporting us with a generous donation to be able to run workshops in the lead up to and after the festival this year.
Volunteer session
Join us 11 am - 1 pm for our open volunteer sessions
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BPOC Grower’s Club
REGISTRATION FOR THIS EVENT IS NOW CLOSED
We are hosting a monthly space for Black and People of Colour (BPOC) to gather in the garden.
Join the Grower’s Club to learn practical growing skills, grow cultural foods, experience grounding practices and storytelling, be playful and expand our hearts together.
Register here to express your interest in joining us.
Volunteer session
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Join us 11 am - 1 pm for our open volunteer session
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Volunteer session
Join our first volunteer session!
Through May we’ll be trialling gathering in the garden every Friday from 11 am - 1 pm for our open volunteer sessions.
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Joyful Landscapes at Dulwich Picture Gallery
Ali & Idman will be holding stalls @dulwichgallery to celebrate their spring family festival. Drop in to learn about growing your own microgreens and sprouts and sow a tray to grow on at home. We’ll be giving away seeds to support pollinators so come craft a pack with sow your intentions for the spring into the earth.
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Find out more details here.
Plants as Resistance at Kew Gardens
We’ll be at Community Kew exploring plant stories and ancestral land practices that embody resistance and resilience. Join us to learn about the complex intersections of colonialism, land justice, cultural heritage and resistance as we engage in conversation and collective reflection. You’ll also be guided to craft your own seed packs and fill them with cultural foods and plants discussed during the gathering.
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Click here to find out more about Kew’s community programmes.
Botanical balms at Chelsea Physic Garden
@chelsea_physic_garden has asked us to host a session for their Youth Panel Takeover Day, centring around the theme of ‘our seasonal senses.’ We will be holding space for you to craft your own calendula balms from our garden harvests! Together we’ll explore how we can call on ancestral connections to plants and one another to nourish us during this time.
Herbal Dispensary at Black Farmers Market
It’s a joy for us to be invited to serve up herbal joy again at The Black Farmers Market
Join us @blackfarmersuk as we create a nurturing space for communal medicine-making, guiding you in crafting your own medicinal balms. Indulge in our herbal dispensary and full joy teas in the sunshine whilst exploring our travelling library, delving into the rich traditions of Afro-Caribbean and British land medicines.
All sessions are drop-ins, serving the community on a first-come, first-served basis.
Free of cost and open to all. Come through!
Nike: Just Do It Day
@nike have invited Ali & Kieron to hold a forest bathing and botanical illustration workshop for them to celebrate their annual JDI Day, the annual away day for UK HQ employees to come together to celebrate their achievements with the brand.
This year the day is focused on wellness and movement at Amber Lakes, a 120 acre site of woodland, lakes and greenery. We’ll be bringing the herbal dispensary so folk can rediscover and learn about herbs that heal and our traveling library filled with works of earth tenders.
Earth Tenders x Athene Club at We Out Here Festival
Join us with Athene Club at @weoutherefest
If you’re at the festival, join us by The Wellness Tent on Saturday afternoon for a relaxing walk discovering seasonal bounty around the site, brew a bush tea and together we’ll be sharing plant stories in the forest.
By the end of the session you’ll leave with your herbal tea blends, bath remedies and knowledge shared during time together.
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Check out @atheneclub’s work connecting women and facilitating spaces within the outdoors
Diaspora Garden x South London Gallery
Seyi has created a temporary community garden on the Pelican Estate in Camberwell for residents to take full joy and take part in creative and wellbeing workshops. We’re bringing the balms alongside a line-up of good friends & comrades @earthchildremedies, @ishwaqqq, @blackgirlsbloom, @idreferdi and Mama D.
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Peep this beautiful film about Seyi’s labour of love creating the Diaspora Garden. And follow their journey across workshops, movement and installations @seyi_adelekun
Earth Tenders x Athene Club x Timberland
We have the pleasure of teaming up with @atheneclub and @timberland_eu for a hike at Eridge Rocks in Tunbridge Wells, Kent
Athene Club extended the invite for us to introduce mindful foraging practices to participants on their hike and then set the space for a botanical illustration session to flourish.
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Check in on @atheneclub’s movement with creating spaces for women to connect outdoors