London Harvest Festival celebrates city farms and community gardens and the staff and volunteers who make growing sites so special.

Please join us for lots of fun in 2024. See the website for all the information.

Venue: the Lambourne End Centre in the London Borough of Barking & Dagenham.

Booking is essential – Book here please.

Members of the public are welcome and we have parking.

Delicious food and drink is available please click here for details

The London Harvest Festival is organised by the London Association who are a group of dedicated leaders of city farms and community gardens.

The event is part of the Urban Harvest fortnight of events in London which celebrates growing in the city.

Find out more here: LondonHarvestFestival.org.uk 

When: 21st September 2024

Timings of the Festival

10am - 3.30pm

Have a Go Crafts
o    corn dolls
o    willow weaving
o    iron forge
o    spinners

11am
Garden Tour - meet at the info tent

11:30am -1pm  
Animal Handling Competition with three age classes
Horticulture judging

1pm
Dog Show for dogs belonging to projects and their staff members. 
All dogs must stay on leads.

2pm
Garden Tour - meet at the info tent

3:30pm
Main event closes

3:30 - 5pm
Events for city farm and community garden competitors - Team Challenges, Tug of War and Awards ceremony

Our Parklife, Social Farms & Garden and Groundwork London are pleased to invite East London Community Growers to our end of summer event at Mobile Garden. There will be a BBQ, garden activities and an opportunity to meet other members of the community!

Join us on Thursday 26th September, from 4.30pm-6.30pm. Please RSVP by registering below. Priority will be given to people that live, work or study in Newham, Tower Hamlets, Waltham Forest and Hackney.

Join us for a day of talks, workshops and connections with your fellow food growing tribe.

Co-hosted with Capital Growth, this will be a full day of networking, learning and connecting food growing in Camden, Barnet, Brent, Enfield, Haringey and Islington. Plus a lovely lunch from Ketchura's Kitchen.

To help cover catering costs, this event is ticketed at £10 (£5 for Social Farms & Gardens and Capital Growth network members). We’re limited to 30 spots, so be sure to book yours now!

We'll be exploring:

How to gain & secure land and learning more from the Right to Grow movement with Incredible EdibleUK

The value to biodiversity and the unique habitats that food growing and orchards provide for nature

How to support our leaders and bring the next generation on the land

Railway gardens and attracting people from diverse backgrounds with Leila Fortunato from Energy Garden

How to record nature on your site with Gino from @codydockers

We look forward to seeing you.

(If you are in a different borough, like the sound of this event, and would like something similar for your area email [email protected])

S&G's Paul Jennings wil be leading this session exploring how to incorporate permaculture design in community growing settings.

Where: Online When: Thursday 3rd October 4.00pm - 5.00pm 

This October we are running a three day training for qualified Gardenisers that are interested in becoming trainers of the Gardeniser PRO course.
The qualification follows the criteria of the European ECVET1 system. 

Find out about Gardeniser here.

To qualify as a Gardeniser PRO Trainer you need to:

a) Have already qualified as a Gardeniser and be represented on the Gardeniser website - gardeniser.eu/en

b) Atttend the three day training in London in October, which will be led by our partner Growing Connections.

c) Complete an internship where you will teach the Gardeniser pro course. We will support you in this and provide teaching opportunities.

d) Take a multiple choice test.

When: 28th, 29th and 30th of October 2024

Where: Kings' Cross, London

Fees: There is a fee of £365 for this course. We will make bursaries available for people / organisations that would find this a barrier.   

This Brent community garden is linked with a dynamic foodbank.

On a sunny August afternoon, community growers from a wide range of gardens were joined by Brent council officers and Barnardo's Brent for a relaxed tour of Sufra/St Raphaels Garden.

We harvested snacks and learned about how the charity coordinates a network of food banks, kitchens, a community shop and café. These act as a gateway for guests to access more holistic support – including welfare advice, asylum support and getting involved in the award winning community garden. www.sufra-nwlondon.org.uk

We are happy to share the great news that we have secured City Bridge Foundation funding for training and networking events in London designed to exactly meet your needs, delivered by, for, and in city farms and community gardens. Thank you City Bridge Foundation.

Become a trustee of SF&G. We need London board members! We also need board members with fundraising, finance and/or comms experience.

Social Farms & Gardens has just updated our website and the Civi CRM we use. At the moment our members cannot log on to change their membership details. Please let us know if you need to make any changes.

Email Amber for any questions or suggestions on these topics. [email protected]