WORKSHOP WEEK THIRD WEEK OF THE MONTH
In addition to our weekly Growing Sunday and Community Workday Thursdays, we now have Workshop Week on the third weekend of every month and week lead up. Come down and join us for: Foraging Friday...
View ArticleWild and free salads: Fri 18 April, 1-3pm
Well hello foragers. 2014 is on us and we’re partying hard with an ID walk and salad making stroll from 1-3pm on Fri 18th April. This year, if for some embarrassing reason you haven’t heard, weekly...
View ArticlePoisonous carrot cousins and wild hogweed ‘asparagus’: Fri 16 May, 1-4pm
April was a loads of fun; 30 of us came down and learnt how to identify the mustard family (brassicaceae), which has no poisonous plants, as well as the springtime linden (tilia spp.) leaves that are...
View ArticleElderflower cordial: Fri 13, 1-3pm
Yep, it’s that time of year again. The field by the old garden centre is full of red clover, and the rotting greenhouse frames are burping up sprays of elderflowers. We’re gonna make some elderflower...
View ArticlePickled elderberries: Fri 18 Jul, 1 – 4
Living in broken rotting greenhouses has its perks. What plant books flatteringly call ‘wasteland species’ may not have the looks but as we like to say here, even a stopped clock is right twice a day....
View ArticleBottled blackberries: Fri 22 Aug, 1-4pm
The highlight of our foraging year. If Grow Heathrow hasn’t been evicted, we’re going to bottle loads of blackberries. Bring clean empty jars and you will earn respect, win honour and know true...
View ArticleSat 5 Sep, 1-5pm: Elderberry vinegar workshop
Along with steamed hogweed buds (and blackberries), the other favourite foraged edible at Grow Heathrow is elderberry vinegar. Come on Saturday 5 September from 1 till 5 and join us. As always, we’ll...
View ArticleHerbal Workshop on Winter Immunity – Elderberry Power!
Saturday 5th September from 1pm – 5pm The Elderberry (sambucus nigra) has long been treasured for its anti-viral properties. It ripens towards the end of summer in good time for the cold wet months...
View ArticleWellness Gardening at Grow Heathrow
Perhaps on one of the last sunny days of the summer a Hounslow based gardening group visited Grow Heathrow to join in with creative gardening workshops. Together we gathered herbs to make herbal teas,...
View ArticleHerbal Workshop: Spring Tonic Vinegar Making, To The Roots!
Saturday 5th March from 2pm As part of Grow Heathrow’s fantastical 6th Birthday celebrations, join us on Saturday for an informative herb walk around the site with community herbalist Rasheeqa Ahmad...
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