Greening Brownfield in The Guardian....(sort of)

The Greening Brownfield garden was pictured in the Guardian recently to illustrate a round-up of Poplar Harca's activities in the local area. Here's Tom holding one of our chickens with the garden in the background. Read the full story here.

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Children's Garden Party: Sunday 9th December

We're having a children's party between 1-3 on Sunday 9th December to celebrate our new play equipment. There will be face painting, free refreshments and children's art and gardening activities. Hope to see you there!

Harvest Festival 2012 - a photo update

Beetroot brownies by Geraldine

A brand new gazebo built by Keith

Carole from Groundwork gave a brilliant composting workshop

Tiny workers turning the compost

Fantastic children's activities by Emma

Delicious barbeque provided by the Glenkerry House crew

Greening Brownfield - The Secret Garden

Greening Brownfield in 'Growing Communities'

We'd like to thank the Royal Horticultural Society for featuring the Greening Brownfield community garden in the latest issue of their 'Growing Communities' magazine. It's a lovely piece with pictures of the garden in bloom and guest appearances from our very own Tom and Geraldine! You can read the piece by clicking the image above, or download a PDF of the magazine from the RHS website (requires Adobe Acrobat).

free wood carving and carpentry workshops

residents of the brownfield estate are invited to join in a local reclaimed wood carpentry project, starting on the 29th september. 

working alongside a local intergenerational group, the project will design sculpture benches for the new eco-hub outside balfron tower. construction will follow on the 13th, 20th and possibly 27th october. 

the project is being led by suraya and danny from city wood, and will be held at the burcham street community centre, london e14 0sh.

for more information please contact nick martin at poplar harca on nick.martin@poplarharca.co.uk.

harca life, summer 2012

we're featured in the new issue of harca life magazine. appropriately enough, it's the green issue, with features on cycling in the borough, food co-ops and healthy cooking sessions and the love poplar project. turn to page 18 for a featurette on the latest greening brownfield activity, and a sneak peek of our new shed decoration. if you're visiting via harca life and are interested in joining the garden, email greeningbrownfield@gmail.com for more information.

if you can't get hold of a paper copy of harca life, you can view one online instead.