Community gardening activities

For more information about Gardening at St Luke's contact Poppy, Community Gardening Manager

No matter what your experience or where you live, you are always very welcome to join in any of our Community Gardening Activities at St Luke’s Community Gardens. Even if you don’t like to put your hands in the soil, please come and have a look at our award-winning green spaces, where you can get inspired by what can be achieved with plants in an urbanised area.

At St Luke’s we have two weekly gardening groups:

St Luke’s Gardening Group

When: Every Tuesday, 2-4pm

Where: St Luke's Terrace (1st floor)

With a focus on learning different ornamental gardening skills and techniques, specifically how to grow amazing decorative plants in small urban spaces such as balconies, patios, small gardens and window seals. The group maintains St Luke’s Terrace in all its splendour.

If you’d like to be involved, please email Catherine.

St Luke’s Food Growing Group

When: Every Thursday, 2-4pm

Where: St Luke's Edible Yard (at the back of the Community Centre)

Growing a variety of edible plants, flowers and berries from around the world, the group is always busy with some seasonal work in order to keep the Edible Yard a beautiful, productive and unique space for community activities. The focus is on organic food growing, using techniques from permaculture and forest gardening.

If you’d like to be involved, please email Zoe.

Sunset Social Gardening

Jul 18th: Grow your own herbal teas

Aug 15th: Composting in small spaces

Aug 29th: Weeds—edible, medicinal, and other uses

Where: Edible Yard or Greenhouse

An after work session of gardening, herbal cocktails and socialising.

Book here.

Family Gardening

When: 3rd July, 10th July, 17th July

Where: Edible Yard of Greenhouse

Join us after school for an hour of gardening in our beautiful Edible Yard.

Let the kids get their hands dirty and learn all about plants and vegetables, how to avoid food waste, how to look after chickens and plant seeds!

Book here.

Rainbow Gardening

When: 11th July

Where: Edible Yard or Greenhouse

Join us in our beautiful, colourful garden and greenhouse for some sunny evening gardening.

This group will be a relaxed safe space for LGBTQ+ people to get together and socialise with a delicious herbal cocktail, while learning some gardening skills.

Book here.

Summer Holiday Gardening

When: 24th July, 14th August, 28th August

Where: Edible Yard or Greenhouse

Join us in the garden during the summer holiday! Sessions include tasting delicious produce, planting seeds and learning about food growing, garden and eco art and meeting our worms and chickens!

St Luke’s Community Gardening Team is looking for regular volunteers to help us in our Community Gardens (including jobs such as watering, harvesting, looking after our hens) as well as involved in the office (including designing posters, organising events, promoting the projects). Please contact us on [email protected] for further information.

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