
New food growing area at Max Roach centre
We had a busy day on Friday (17th July) creating a new food growing area at Loughborough Community Centre at Max Roach Park in Central Brixton. It was a truly
Building an empowered, connected and skilled network of food growers in Lambeth
The Lambeth Food Growing Network is a diverse, eclectic and vibrant collection of people, consisting of over 120 groups, on housing estates, schools and community spaces across the borough.
IEL is working with network members to co-design a 5-year programme of upskilling workshops and networking events, thanks to generous funding from the City Bridge Foundation. Lambeth growers will gain more opportunities to connect with each other, share skills and resources, and contribute to the future direction of the network.
We have employed a Network Manager, Charlotte Dove, to build relationships with Lambeth’s growing groups, research their needs, and co-design an upskilling programme. If you’re a Lambeth growing space and you’d like to get involved, please contact charlotte.dove@
Huge thanks to City Bridge Foundation for making this project possible.

We had a busy day on Friday (17th July) creating a new food growing area at Loughborough Community Centre at Max Roach Park in Central Brixton. It was a truly

Thanks to DWS corporate volunteers who planted up a pond, and weeded and planted a large veg bed at Woody Farm on 15th July. Despite the heat wave, everyone worked

We held our ‘Growing Communities Together’ workshop on Saturday in partnership with the South London Botanical Institute and High Trees. Thanks to members to the growing groups at Tulse Hill

Incredible Edible Lambeth is very grateful to have five years’ funding from City Bridge Foundation, supporting us from 2025- 2030. The project aim is to support food growers by visiting

This month we’re throwing the spotlight on two community gardens which are both beautful, biodiverse spaces providing sanctuary to pollinators and other wildlife, as well as people. Community Healing Garden

Huge thanks to 30 people that gathered on Monday 29th June to help launch our Right To Grow campaign in Lambeth. Everyone from parks campaigners and schools to community gardens,

Learn about the work of Incredible Edible groups across the country in a series of monthly podcasts. The June edition features Incredible Edible Lambeth. We talk about the vision that

Photo credit: Tom Palmer, Green Party Cllr for West Dulwich

We had a very informative and enjoyable workshop with Adi from Urban Mushrooms at Bernie Spain Gardens this week. Adi gave a short presentation about the fasinating world of fungi

In Lambeth, hundreds of people are growing their own food, building food security, wellbeing and community. Incredible Edible Lambeth is campaigning for the Right To Grow in our borough, with

This month we’re shining the spotlight on two gardens with very different stories to tell: Eden Nature Garden, established since 2000; and the Friends of Max Roach Park who set

We are delighted to be partnering with Brockwell Hall for Blooming Lambeth Awards 2026. The award ceremony will be hosted in the stunning event space at Brockwell Hall on Sunday

We were delighted that more than 30 people brought and took away a wide range of seedlings at IEL’s plant swap on Sunday 24th May. Huge thanks to volunteers Clara,

We are delighted to announce that Blooming Lambeth Awards 2026 is open for applications! We warmly encourage all Lambeth-based growers and gardeners to apply – whether you are a new

Our Annual Member Survey 2026 is now live, we’d love to hear from you! The annual survey helps us to understand how we are supporting food growing projects across the

Huge thanks to everyone that helped transform the Rotunda garden in Cressingham Gardens estate on Tuesday 5th May. Led by IEL’s network manager, Charlotte, we covered weedy ground with cardboard

We’re very grateful to the team from DWS who came along to our volunteer day at the Landor Road Garden Project and helped transform an overgrown area into a children’s

This month we are throwing the spotlight on two groups, both doing great work with children and young people. La Retraite Roman Catholic Girls’ School The food growing areas at

Huge thanks to everyone that supported our planting day at Moorlands last Tuesday 21st April. The National Lottery Community Fund filmed IEL for its annual report, visiting Moorlands in the

Last Sunday, we organised an upskilling workshop with Lambeth-based social enterprise Urban Canopy, hosted at the lovely Denmark Hill Community Garden. Food growers and gardeners from nine different community gardens

This month we visited two projects: Adi’s Urban Mushrooms and Rosendale Gardens Estate. Adi’s Urban Mushrooms is a social enterprise, based at the Remakery in Brixton. We met Adi Staempfli,

On Saturday, we held our first fundraising workshop for community food growers, since launching the Lambeth Food Growing Network last summer. The workshop brought together gardeners, food growers and community

Last Saturday we hosted our annual Seed Swap at the Garden Museum, and what a brilliant day it was! The room was full of growers, gardeners, and community groups from

This month we are throwing the spotlight on three projects all based in parks and all doing fantastic work to engage the local community. Myatt’s Fields Park The management and

10th February 2026 9am to 2pm at Brockwell Park Greenhouses Headline: schools want food growing back on the curriculum The conference was open to all Lambeth food growing schools, and

It may be cold and gray outside but many of our member sites have been keeping busy over the winter months with seasonal jobs such as maintaining site infrastructure and

As 2025 draws to a close, we want to say a big thank you to everyone who have been part of growing food and celebrating green spaces across Lambeth with

This month we’d like to throw the spotlight on two of our member gardens, both of which are based within Lambeth parks. Brockwell Park Community Greenhouses Brockwell Park Community Greenhouses

This month we’re shining the spotlight on two housing estate projects which are both doing brilliant work. St Martin’s Estate We were shown around the food growing areas on the

IEL recently supported one of our members, Nicola Bellinfantie, to take part in the ‘We Grow’ Community Leaders course, as part of our mission to build a skilled network of

London’s Local Nature Recovery Strategy is open for public consultation until 29th October 2025. The Greater London Authority is responsible for preparing a Local Nature Recovery Strategy (LNRS) for London. Over

We were delighted to take part in Lambeth Climate Day last Saturday, 4th October. We distributed free seeds to community members via our information stand and also hosted some interesting

This month we’re casting the spotlight on three brilliant projects, all of whom have transformed neglected spaces in their local area into thriving community gardens, helping to create connections between

This month we’d like to throw the spotlight on three beautiful gardens, all making fantastic use of their food growing areas, and providing welcoming spaces to learn about food growing

This month I was delighted to be welcomed at two community growing spaces: Loughborough Children’s Centre and 85 Landor Road Loughborough Children’s Centre Sabrina Phipps, Deputy Manager for Early Years

Big thanks to Notre Dame tenants and residents association who worked with IEL to organise an event at which four new growing beds were installed on Tuesday 8th July. We

We are excited to launch the Lambeth Food Growing Network this July. Thanks to City Bridge Foundation funding, we now have capacity to work on something that we have wanted for

We are seeking a 3 day a week food growing network coordinator to reach out to Lambeth’s food growing projects, amplify the voices and achievements of food growers and to

We are delighted to announce that IEL has been awarded five years’ funding by City Bridge Foundation – London’s biggest independent charity funder. This will allow us to provide the