Sunday 27 September at Hawkwood Community Farm
Our autumn open day features a Plant Sale where you can buy seedlings to plant for winter. Mustards, rocket, endive, kale, chard.. all helping to keep up your vitamin and mineral intake over the colder months and keep your garden green to remind you of the next growing season to come. We will also have our September regulars of a chilli workshop, community apple pressing and a pumpkin patch treat, and in addition we are sharing information on our Radicle Growth strategy, and focusing on wildlife in our site tour. We look forward to welcoming you to Hawkwood.
Timetable for the day
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: Open 12-4. Stocked with organic seasonal produce – including our wide range of chillies, solidarity goods from further afield, and OrganicLea merchandise.
Plant stall: Open from 12 pm to 3.45 pm, with our winter veg plugs and seedlings as well as our hand-mixed composts, greenwaste compost and woodchip.
Lunch, refreshments and bar: Warm meals made with organic and seasonal produce (from 12.30pm); hot drinks, delicious vegan cake and savoury plates, and a bar with a selection of beer brewed on site.
12pm Chilli workshop: Learn more about the astounding and global varieties of chillies we sell – and taste some too
12-3pm Community apple pressing: bring your own apples and bottles to turn into tasty juice, or just help us press ours.
1-2pm Treasure Hunt and Pumpkin Patch walk: Family Activity including the opportunity to select and pre-order your Halloween pumpkin!
2pm Wildlife-focused site tour: join us for a walk around Hawkwood to see how we are giving vital support to insects and other wildlife as part of our WalthamWild project to create a biodiverse borough.
3pm Radicle Growth workshop: come and find out more about OrganicLea’s vision, aims and plans for the next five years.
Getting to our open day
We encourage you to come by public transport or bicycle if possible, so check out our directions to Hawkwood site including bus, rail/walk through forest and river-cycle routes. For car drivers, please park off site to avoid congestion. This event is always busy so on site we only have a few car parking spaces reserved for those with access needs, and a pick up point for those buying more plants/compost than they can carry to their parking spot.
Online compost sales for collection and delivery
If you can’t make it to the open day but would like to buy any of our handmade seed, potting and container compost mixes, or general garden compost and woodchip, we sell these in our compost shop for collection at Hawkwood or delivery on select dates.