Our Projects
Instagram
Last weekend we hosted a Wildlife Workshop at the community and wildlife gardens in Ruskin Park. Everybody who attended had the chance to make a bug hotel, bird nesting box, and two types of bird feeders! We are continuing our partnership with the Friends of Ruskin Park with free monthly workshops in their gardens, you can check out the details by signing up to their newsletter. And tomorrow, we will be on site with Lambeth Landscapes to plant loads of new pond and bog plants in and around the park's three ponds. If you fancy joining to lend a hand, meet us at the community garden at 10am 😁👊🏻🦆
CREW! 👊🏻💚 The kids on Patmore Estate are an incredible bunch 🌳🍒🍐 by this time next week they will have created a brand new edible forest garden for them and their neighbours to enjoy for years to come! 🍇🍏🌳
Planting on Patmore Forest Garden got underway yesterday, with the high canopy and climbers all put into the ground thanks to the local crew who came out to help! 💪🏼🌳... Everything we've planted so far contains something edible - whether fruit, nut, berry or leaf. We've planted pear, mulberry, toona, hazel, greengage, grapevine, juneberry and hops. Next weekend we'll get stuck into the soft fruit bushes and mid canopy plants before making a start on the herbaceous perennials the following week. We're on site every Sunday from 12-3... Join us! ✌🏻🍇🍐
Patmore Estate is getting a new Forest Garden this month! We've spent all week odering hundreds of edible plants, from fruit trees to currant bushes to herbs, hops and grapevines. Join on on three Sundays starting February 23rd to find out what is a forest garden and how does it all work?? Lend a hand planting all the new edibles, and we'll give you tips on how and when to harvest each one, so you can return in future years and stuff your belly with goodness 💪🏻🌳🍎 This project is a partnership with @edibleavenuesw and is funded by Mayor of London 🍄
Our week was spent carrying out some upgrade works in the beautiful wildlife garden in Ruskin Park. We created a new path to direct visitors away from the ponds edge, to make space for a new bog garden. We also created a hibernaculum beneath the dipping platform, using logs covered with turf, for the frogs and newts to hang out in the winter months. The crew from Lambeth Landscape joined us for a day to clear some growth from the pond and bramble from around the fruit trees. The garden is looking incredible in the spring sunshine and ready for some big planting sessions next month 💚🌳🐸🦎
We got to work this week preparing the site for our next big project in Battersea - Patmore Forest Garden will be a new edible garden created using forest garden principles, meaning the plants will help to sustain each other, and minimal maintenance will be required in future. We're teaming up again with the amazing @edibleavenuesw crew, and the project is being funded by Mayor of London and Patmore Coop. Swipe right to see the site itself and check back here soon for details of community planting days when you can come down, get involved, and learn about Forest Gardens and why they're such a good way to create usable, edible spaces without damaging the environment and local ecosystems! 💚🌳
TwitterMy Tweets
Get in touch
Contact us by email on
info@urbancanopy.org
or by phone on
07554370824
