Woodshop of Recycled Delights
We are now running the 2nd year of our wood recycling and carpentry skills project, funded by the North London Waste Authority. The project rescues timber that would otherwise go to landfill or be down-cyled, and uses it to improve skills and confidence and create resources for garden projects across north London, such as raised beds for food growing or beautiful garden furniture. You can find out about upcoming events and more on the Woodshop of Recycled Delights Instagram page #woodshop_of_recycled_delights.
A GARDENED MIND - Garden Therapy & Nature Connection
Another round of inclusive and empowering garden sessions centered around nature and social connection, arts and community meals in a safeguarded green space!
ABOUT
Garden therapy, nature connection, art & crafts in Garden of Earthly Delights.
Free weekly empowering garden sessions for local Hackney residents of different ages and mixed backgrounds, who experience ill health and have restricted access to safeguarded green spaces.
WHEN:
Starts on Fri, 5 May 2023 11:00 BST
Every FRIDAY 11AM - 3PM (with a break for tea & snacks)
We accept sign ups on a rolling basis, however we ask for at least 6 weeks commitment.
WHAT TO EXPECT:
Garden sessions: growing organic food, plant propagation, plant care, harvesting, culinary and medicinal plant use, nature connection through senses
Arts & Crafts: art created from nature like leaf prints, weaving from leaves or twigs, clay molding, eco printing
Mindfulness: Qi-gong elements practice, journalling, meditation, talking circles
Intergenerational Community meal at the end of the program. Communally prepared and shared meals from garden grown produce and donated surplus food. Creating a platform where people can interact and overcome cultural, racial, economic differences by finding common ground over shared food.
WHO IS IT FOR:
We offer this program to local residents of different ages and mixed backgrounds with restricted access to green spaces, those with challenges to mental and physical health, socially isolated, unemployed and other vulnerable members of our community.
We aim to provide gardening skills and opportunities to connect with others, developing a sense of belonging, well being, and reducing feelings of isolation or exclusion. By engaging you in meaningful occupation in a safe place surrounded by plants we hope to alleviate negative effects of socio-economic deprivation in our ward.
SIGN UP:
To sign up please send an email to: gardenearthlydelights@riseup.net so we can send you a registration form. We will contact you then to confirm your place on the program.
Look forward to connecting with you!
Nice Running Hackney
Nice Running Hackney are bringing a movement to our garden sessions.
The principles:
Social - running as a by product of meeting people, making friends and sparking collaboration
Environment - explore our surroundings, travel down different paths
Health - escape the pressures, stresses and anxieties inflicted by our worlds reality. movement!
Performance - all goals are as important as the next
Diy - an alternative to the system
Project Indigo
Garden of Earthly Delights has been working with Project Indigo, an LGTBIQ+ youth group, and Off Centre, a mental health service within Hackney, to offer use of this therapeutic space for well-being sessions during Covid times. The experience has fostered much needed face-to-face connection , during very difficult times, and new passions for growing food and edible fungi, during regular weekly sessions. We are looking forward to future collaborations with these inspiring young people.
Camerados - Public Living Room
In partnership with Camerados, the garden hosts a Public Living Room. A no agenda space where folks can come just to be themselves alongside others. A warm welcoming space in the company of fellow humans.
'Being a camerado is a mindset that you carry with you everywhere, anyone can be a camerado by living our principles, they make human connection easier.'
To find out more about the Camerados, please visit : camerados.org/public-living-room
Re Wild Together
Our group’s artists carried out a design and painting workshop with local youth funded by London Grows Wild Together. They created a beautiful mural on the garden’s front wall. Inspired by wildflowers and fungi the mural brings color to Graham road. You can check out our Re Wild Together story at the Grow Wild Exhibition, 70 St Mary Axe from 16th September to 1stOctober 2021. As part of our Re Wild Together project we will also be running a ‘How to grow fungi in your garden’ workshop in the garden, date TBC.
Garden Community Assembly
In Spring 2021 with the support of CVS Small Grants, we held two workshops and a final community assembly/garden’s assembly. We invited residents and community groups in order to get local input into the new garden’s design, accessibility, ethos, and program. We used these collective ideas to inform action and invited those who participated in the sessions to get engaged in making those ideas happen. Assembly results to be found here after they are announced on our Open Day 26th Sept.