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Our Local Nature Grant Scheme - London Wave opening 1st September: Mayor of London x Green Roots x Linnaean Society funding for innovative projects that are designed and led by young people in the UK. Thursday 3rd September, 5.30-7.30pm, Camden Collective, 5-7 Buck Street, London NW1 8NJ: building with pigeons codesign workshop - rewild the ends in collaboration with Camden Inspire Festival invite you to come together to map, co-design & build a dovecote! engage in conversation, material sampling, deep listening and sketching to better understand our neighbours in the city. Friday 4th September, 4-7pm, Hale End Library, Highams Park E4 9QD: Wildways Along the Ching project, 23 artists investigate the urban ecology of the River Ching. The first phase with an exhibition of Artists Field Notes opens with a ‘meet the artists’ event. Friday 4th & Saturday 5th September, Future for Water’s River Summit & Festival, Henley-on-Thames: weaving a movement of community water protection. Barnes Common’s scientist volunteer Dr Rachel Walker will be joining the panel “How Citizen Science Shifts the Dial”. Films, art, music, food and the opportunities to meet other people who care about our waterways. Sunday 6th September, 1-3pm, Reapers Garden, Chingford, WildWays Along the Ching: Seed saving for climate adaptive gardening: seeing, selecting, saving and storing. Family-friendly workshop introducing the ancient practice of seed saving through drawing exercises, making fairy envelopes and sharing a locally-adapted wildflower seed mix. Will be a lovely afternoon. Tuesday 8th September, The Antwerp Arms, 7.30pm til late, 168-170 Church Road, Tottenham N17 8AS: Firebrand Poets Presents - Wake Up: the Planet is Burning! poetry open mic night at this ace community-owned pub surrounded by green, with a warm and solidarity-hearted collective and crowd who love sharing life, rage, compassion and beauty through spoken word and lyrical interchange. London School of Solarpunk, Jam In A Jar, Green Lanes (Turnpike Lane area), multiple dates: a new school term starts with Can policy save us? A series of lectures and simulation games exploring climate policy meaningfulness through key themes. ‘Imagining new ways of living collectively under the sun through social art & experimental education’. Bethnal Green Nature Reserve Community Ecologies programme (multiple dates) - some interesting juicy multi-faceted talks & co-learning this autumn focused around climate change & adaptation and community stewardship. Sunday 13th September, 10.30am-1pm, Southwark Park, London: Radicle Plant Walk - Than & Claire of Nourish The Wild return for the next of their participatory rambles that ‘weave botany, horticulture, herbalism, foraging and social history to explore local plantscapes in their fullest sense.’ Tuesday 15th September, Birmingham: Wild Times Gathering - hosted by The Social Change Nest, this gathering is an unconference for grassroots community protectors from across the land ‘to network, self-organise, learn and belly laugh side by side’. Wednesday 16th / Sunday 20th September, online introductory session: Certificate in Community Orcharding (CICO), Orchard Project, Barnet (starting October) - learn everything you need to know about creating and managing orchards, especially those with veteran trees. Friday 18th September, 5-6.30pm (online): DIY HRT 101 - An intro class to safe self medication for trans people & non-binary people with Carnelian Seville, covering learning about cross-sex hormones, harm reduction strategies, safe sourcing, community strategies, herbalist options & understanding legal protections. Sunday 20th September, 10.30am-12noon, Leyton Boundary Garden, London: Sow Generational Healing; Exploring our food growing histories - an event for Muslim Women with Maream, exploring and discussing histories and cultures of participants. From Salsaal Club, a gathering of Muslim food growers, gardeners and land stewards. Sunday 20th September, 1.30pm–5.30pm, Organiclea Community Growers, Chingford: A Taste of Palestine in London - Food, film and foraging, a fundraiser for Palestine with a mixture of homegrown feast made by Sally Azzam, a food & herb walk around beautiful Hawkwood Nursery, screening of Jumana Manna’s Foragers and conversation with Zaytoun social enterprise who supply fair-trade produce from Palestinian farmers. Tuesday 29th September, 6.30-8.30pm, St Mary’s Church, Walthamstow: Ground Level Presents: Gardening for Climate Resilience - an evening of talks and conversation exploring resilient planting, wildlife gardening and adapting to a changing climate with a number of passionate growers and plant/ecosystem people. Looking ahead! Saturday 3rd October, 2-4.40pm, the Design Museum, London - Gardens: Curiosity and Creative Research, an afternoon with 13 multidisciplinary designers and creative practitioners, hands-on exploration, and shared curiosity in the museum garden. Looking at gardens as spaces for research, experimentation and creative discovery. Food growers, preparers & lovers of Waltham Forest! Save the date and bring and share your finest and proudest culture-representing vegetables, fruits, herbs, jams, achars, chutneys, kimchis, kefirs, krauts, sharbats, honeys, ales, crafts, the good things you like to make, to the WFFGN Harvest Fair on Sunday 11th October, from 11am, at the Good Shepherd Studios in Leytonstone! Spread the word to your neighbours, friends, clans and communities (the more intercultural the richer!) - it will be a very fun gathering with space for celebration, dance, and delicious food. 🧅 🍆 🌶️ 🍒 🌺 🍠 🌹 🥬 🌰 🌽 News & callouts Earthseed Community Build Project, continuing on Saturdays through September: building a shelter, relationships and discussions around setting up a Global Majority / Black & People of Colour Growers Network in Waltham Forest. For global majority folks. Contact earthseedcommunitygarden@gmail.com if you have any questions! Wort Journal: callout for submissions for issue 5: Wort platforms writing from within grassroots and folk herbalism and adjacent plant practices. We seek contributions from persons whose work is rooted in reverence for and service to the living earth, its plants and its people. Deadline 15th October. Our brilliant hosts and collaborators the Hornbeam in Walthamstow are building a Waltham Forest Green Hub - Working towards a Waltham Forest Community Climate Action Network, being developed as a directory of the many initiatives local to our area working towards a community-led dialogue with our climate feedback systems. Information access in one place supporting us all to take part in ways that are possible for us, in amongst the rich variety of visions, actions and endeavours already going on. Our friends Health In The Margins - a local CIC working to build health equity by placing community knowledge, voices, and leadership at the centre of how health is defined, researched, and delivered - have been selected as the Community Voice Partner for NHS Million Hearts and Minds (MHM) in London. They are looking for one London community group to take part in a series of nine monthly sessions with around 15–20 community members to explore together what affects cardiovascular health in your community. Find out more here / 📧 juliannasmith@healthinthemargins.org Fundraiser by our brilliant local friend Vaish, NHS Social Prescriber and Kitchen Lead at Organiclea, towards raising £20,000 to build Ma Learning Institute and empower women in rural Bangladesh.
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