harvest festival update

Saturday 3rd September 2011 was the Greening Brownfield Harvest Festival. As you can hopefully tell from the photos, a great day was had by all. The atmosphere was relaxed, the food was fantastic and the company was convivial. We'd like to say a big thank you to everyone who made the day happen, especially the Glenkerry crew for the delicious food, and the weather gods for smiling on us in the middle of the wettest week in ages. Roll on Harvest Festival 2012!

welcome message

we were lucky with the weather!

cheeky flypostering

cake club takes shape

delicious homemade edibles for the give'n'take tombola

vas at the all-you-can-eat buffet

prosecco and homegrown tomatoes

such yummy food!

keith, avril, julie, tom and aziz tucking in

biggest bottle of wine in the world

we drank it all :)

avril and keith

a separate BBQ for veggies

the grillmeister

happy picnickers

kath announces the tombola

geraldine with her winnings

harvest festival TODAY!

Harvest festival poster

Today's the day.... it's the Harvest Festival!

The gardens will be open from 11-4 as part of Capital Growth's Edible Open Gardens Day. It's a great opportunity to see how the garden's bloomed over the summer. We have tumbling tomatoes, swelling pumpkins, beds of herbs and some lovely, rangy wild-flowers around the children's area. We also have a sunflower that's nearly as tall as Carradale House (honest!)

Lunch will be served from 1-3pm. We'll have a barbeque serving organic meats plus veggie and vegan options. Please bring some food to share plus whatever you'd like to drink.

There will be a dazzling display of cakes from the Greening Brownfield Cake Club, all baked around a theme of 'Harvest'.

We'll also have a Give and Take Tombola. If you can, please bring a homemade or homegrown item - a bowl of tomatoes, a loaf of bread, a jar of pickle - and enter it into a raffle to swap for someone else's homemade treat.

Hope to see you there at 1pm. We're located on Andrew Street, E14 0SW - the old tennis court outside Carradale House. Click the link below (marked 'Location') for a map.

new harvest festival poster

we'll be distributing these around the brownfield estate over the next few days - watch your letterbox!

give and take tombola at the harvest festival

raffle tickets by howardlake, on flickr

as part of the harvest festivities next saturday 3rd september, we'll be running a give and take tombola. just bring something home-made or home-grown - a jar of jam, a bowl of tomatoes, some chutney, a loaf of bread, maybe even a cake from the cake club - and then we'll have a super-randomised-prizes-for-all-tombola!

• bring your item, take someone else's.
• like a secret santa, but harvest themed.
• like a raffle, but everyone who gives something gets a prize.

the lovely kath will be running the stall on the day, so hand in your homemade goodies when you get there. the tombola will be called later in the day. we'd wish you luck, but you won't need it, because everyone's a winner!

Harvest Festival 2011

Saturday 3rd September 2011 will see Greening Brownfield hosting a fabulous harvest hoedown. The garden will be open from 1-3pm and we'll have a BBQ serving organic meats plus veggie and vegan options. Bring a dish to share plus whatever you'd like to drink. Hope to see you there!

Greening Brownfield has secured Capital Growth funding

Superb team work has managed to secure over £1,000 of funding for capital costs to create a temporary food growing garden and community space on the old tennis courts outside Carradale House, as part of the Brownfield Estate.

Capital Growth is an ambitious programme set up to support 2,012 new community food growing spaces for London by 2012.

Funded by the Lottery, Local Food and the Mayor of London, and a project of London Food Link and Sustain.

This exciting break through has led to Poplar HARCA, on behalf of Greening Brownfield being able to secure a further £2,000 of funds to support greening works across the Balfron and Carradale outdoor areas...

http://www.capitalgrowth.org/

More on these exciting breakthroughs soon!