OrganicLea
Phone: 020 8524 4994
Address: Hawkwood Nursery
115 Hawkwood Crescent
E4 7UH
****** Green Care Quality Mark Awarded Oct 23 *****
Organiclea is a workers' cooperative growing and distributing food and plants in the Lea Valley, and supporting others to do the same with volunteering and training opportunities and garden support.
Facilities: Volunteering, Shop, Community space for hire, Community recycling/composting, Holiday activities, Wildlife area, Sustainable/Green building on site
Open to the public? Yes
Opening hours:
We have an open day on the last Sunday of the month (except December), with volunteering from 9.45am-1pm, and family-friendly open day activities from 12-4pm.
Accessible? Yes
Has livestock? No
Directions:
Hawkwood Crescent is off Sewardstone Road (A112).
From Chingford Train Station: take bus 379 to Yardley Primary School on Hawkwood Crescent (very end of Drysdale Avenue) and walk up the road to the Plant Nursery – 2 minutes walk.
From Walthamstow Central underground: take bus 215 from Walthamstow bus station to Sewardstone Road, Hawkwood Crescent stop. Cross this main road and walk up Hawkwood Crescent - the Plant Nursery is at the very end. About 5 minutes walk from the bus stop.
Other local buses: The 313 stops at the end of Drysdale Avenue, other end to Hawkwood Crescent. This bus connects to Potters Bar, Enfield, Southbury and Ponders End rail stations. The walk from this bus stop is 10 mins.
By bicycle: The River Lea towpath guides you from lower Walthamstow and North Hackney (Clapton); get off just before Ponders End lock and turn right into Lea Valley Road. Turn left at main traffic light junction into Stewardstone Road. Hawkwood Crescent is a turning about 500m along on the right.