Sunday 28 May – Plants and Compost
The growing season is well underway and our May open day offers a range of bargain plants for sale, as well as lots of other activities. Last chance to get our seedlings and plug plants for this spring/summer. And if you’d like to come to the site by bike you can join our Bicycle Train convoy leaving from Lloyd Park in Walthamstow!
Timetable for the day
11.10 Bicycle Train meeting point at the basketball courts in Lloyd Park, for 11.15 departure.
Kids Kitchen: Alongside our open day, an opportunity to join a session where families get to cook together, harvesting veg straight from the soil, share the food and exchange growing tips! Session 10.30am to 2pm, cost £6. Pre-booking essential, register here.
Open Day 12-4pm. We’ll be inviting visitors to make a suggested donation of a few ££ when they come to help cover the costs of running the open days. Although we can take card payments, we love cash if you can bring it.
Farm stall (stocked with compost, seasonal produce and preserved goods) and refreshments available all day, lunch served 12.30-2pm.
Plant stall – everything must go.. into the ground! Plenty of plugs and seedlings, fruit and herbs at bargain prices, there’s still time to get planting for this growing season.
Bargain Bag-Your-Own Compost: To help kickstart your growing season, we will be selling Soil Association approved Green Waste Compost at a bargain price, provided you fill your own sacks! Help will be on hand for this task. If you can’t bring your own bags we can supply them for 50p each.
12.30pm Tomato training tutorial: learn how to support your new tomato plants to maximise fruiting.
2pm Site tour: join us for a walk around Hawkwood to see the growing season beginning to flourish and learn more about OrganicLea’s work.
2-3.30pm Forest time drop-in activity for children accompanied by their grown-ups. Free, but please book here.
Directions to our Hawkwood site including bus, rail and river-cycle routes are here. Parking available at the site.
