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Grow Your Own Leaders – A New Course Starting April 2017

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A course supported by Morley College and Incredible Edible Lambeth.

We all want to put people at the heart of the food we create. What if here in Lambeth we produced, distributed and ate food in a way that:

  • supported our community’s need to live healthily, socially, sustainably and affordably
  • enabled food producers, manufacturers, retailers and innovators to work effectively together
  • enabled us all to get more involved in meeting our own food needs

But we can’t do this on our own. Continue reading…

Free Gardening Workshops in July – Sign Up Now!

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Join a special series of workshops to help you sow seeds, improve soil and make your own hanging basket! The workshops are suitable for all levels and are run by experienced gardeners.

Workshop 1: What Seeds to Sow Now

It is not too late to plant seeds! Explore the amazingly productive greenhouse and learn from expert grower Fabrice about what seeds to plant now to ensure you have produce through the winter. Meet other local gardeners and strengthen your networks/share seeds skills. Continue reading…

Grow your own way

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Looking back on U.Lab

By Olivia Haughton

In the last few months you may have read about the U.Lab Grow Your Own Leaders programme run in the spring by Incredible Edible Lambeth and Impact Hub Brixton. The premise of the course may seem foreign to many but the experience can benefit everyone.

It’s quite hard to describe what U.Lab is. Even now, having gone through the process, I struggle to condense the theory into a tidy sentence to relay to friends the journey I’ve been on. The theoretical grounding of the course seemed a little daunting at first and I wasn’t sure what I was signing up for. In practice what I gained was a network of supportive people who all want to make a difference and together we were equipped with the tools to do so. Continue reading…

Garden Angells

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Last month I was fortunate enough to spend an afternoon on Angell Town with Simon Ghartey and some local and not-so-local volunteers installing a genuine RHS Chelsea garden, direct from the Flower Show, on a green patch at the heart of estate.

Residents from the estate were buzzing with excitement. Antoinella Prempeh, who lives opposite the garden, was beaming. “It such a positive change for us. This is a ‘top notch’ garden – something that you would normally only see in Kensington or Chelsea is here on my doorstep”. Continue reading…

Open Orchard Comes To Brixton

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The Open Orchard project came to central Brixton at the end of February, joining forces with the local residents of the Canterbury Gardens estate to plant 9 gorgeous fruit trees.

The Open Orchard project started in West Norwood in 2014- an initiative supported by Lambeth Council through their visionary Open Works programme. They were successful in planting 67 trees in 9 mini-orchards, all of which had existing community groups who look after the trees. Continue reading…

Grow Your Own Leaders

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Incredible Edible Lambeth (IEL) has partnered with Lambeth Food Partnership and ImpactHub Brixton to deliver a collaboration & leadership development programme for food activists.

IEL, like many community organisations, has often found itself with too few people, too little time and good people suffering from burnout. So it was with great interest we heard about the U.Lab programme, developed by action researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology that was  being pioneered locally by ImpactHub Brixton. We took part in the first programme and went on to co-create a version focused on food. Continue reading…