The winners for Blooming Lambeth 2019 have been announced, find out who got the honours by downloading the awards booklet.
You can also download the slides from the presentation given on the evening.
Blooming Lambeth 2019 – The Winners
Incredible Edible Lambeth Harvest 2019, 19th Sept -6th Oct
To align with Sustain’s Urban Food Fortnight, from 19th September to 6th October we are promoting everything foodie going on in Lambeth – both on our website and in a leaflet.
We would love you to submit ideas for food-centred events, even if you’ve already registered with Sustain. In order to get onto our IEL Harvest brochure, submit your event via this google form or email us the information by 3rd September. The info you supply will also go onto our website.
Here you will find the full list of events. Each event has its own page, so click on the link to find out more.
A secret garden party in Stockwell
This fantastic article was co-written by Jude Bow, Friederike Huber and Vita Bow.
It seemed such a waste; a pocket woodland, at the heart of Stockwell’s Spurgeon Estate, locked and neglected. Apart from kids climbing over the railings occasionally and a fox feeling very much at home, the garden was unused and falling into disrepair. It was particularly tragic to see this in inner London, where green spaces are so valuable. Continue reading…
Call out for new Directors of Incredible Edible Lambeth
Incredible Edible Lambeth is looking for new members for the body that oversees and steers its work. We welcome nominations from anyone who has a passion for nurturing local food initiatives, and who lives and/or works in Lambeth. Continue reading…
Make Soil!
‘Composting’ is not always considered a very glamorous activity – but as gardeners, we all know the incredible benefits of creating good compost – or ‘gardeners’ gold’.
We are partnering with MakeSoil.org and are trying to persuade everyone to generate much more lovely, nutrient-rich soil by inviting our neighbours to deposit their food waste in our compost bins.
We already have seven MakeSoil sites in Lambeth – take a look at the website and type in your postcode to find your nearest site; you could become a MakeSoil supporter today.
This photo is at the Secret Garden on the Spurgeon Estate.
Find out more about MakeSoil here:
Blooming Lambeth Awards 2019
Join us on 15 October to celebrate community growing in Lambeth and crown the winners of the Blooming Lambeth Awards 2019!
Seed Swap and a Tribute to Esiah Levy
At our recent seed swap, the Garden Museum was humming with activity as people gathered to share seeds and started to think about the next growing season. We couldn’t believe the number of people who came through the door, eager to get a chance to talk about the next veg or flowers they were going to try growing. Continue reading…
Pesticide-free Lambeth!
We are experiencing a biodiversity crisis, with a catastrophic decline in insect life, in part because of over-use of pesticide. And there are questions around the safety of glyphosate to our health (read how Bayer have agreed to pay out $US15.9b in cancer claims.
HOT NEWS from mid September 2020 – a quote from Lambeth Council:
..“glyphosate will be stopped completely when the new contracts come in [October 2021]…as part of our expectations of the new service which we have put out to tender is that bidders have to prove how they will manage invasive weed growth without glyphosate.”
So we still have a bit of time to wait for out streets to be glyphosate-free (Council owned estates are now glyphosate-free, as from Friday 7th August 2020, read here for this news) but many TMO’s are not. Did you know that your street is sprayed twice or three times a year?
So what can you do?
1. If you would like your street NOT to be sprayed this year, you can email streetchampions@lambeth.gov.uk and request ‘no harmful chemicals’. 30 streets have already opted out this year (2020).
2. Watch Sophie’s video here, as we move towards accepting weeds on our streets. and watch our Biodiversity webinar here.
Get Involved – Make Your Pledge TODAY!
Join us and pledge to go pesticide-free in your garden.
(Glyphosate is commonly known as Round Up)
Other actions you can take:
- write to your councillor asking them to ‘take the pledge’ too, if you don’t know who your councillor is, go here
- support the work of Pesticide Action Network UK and support their Pesticide-Free Towns Campaign.
- share this Pesticide Free document (see pdf) with Lambeth Councillors, TMO’s and Lambeth residents.
- get in touch with the IEL team with your own ideas for a campaign, and most importantly, if you’re not yet a member, join IEL!
Why Lettuce?
The team from the London Freedom Seed Bank had us all enthralled last week at Incredible Edible Lambeth’s Seed Saving Event, held at the beautiful South London Botanical Institute.
Julie Riehl and Charlotte Dove provided a wealth of information about the whys and hows of seed saving. Charlotte reminded us why it was so vital (given the 93% loss in food seed varieties worldwide) and provided the background to the work of the Seed Bank whilst Julie gave a great drawn presentation on how seeds propagate and how to start seed saving. Continue reading…
And the winners are…
Read the full list of all the amazing gardens, gardeners and food entrepreneurs who won prizes at the Blooming Lambeth Awards.
Nearly all these winners can be found on our fantastic map – please do click through and learn more – and go visit some of them too. Get involved if it’s just round the corner from where you live or start a community garden of your own in a space near you. We need many more of them… Continue reading…