May 6, 2025 by Laura
OrganicLea Produce & Marketing Coordinator (3.5 days/week) We are looking for a new Produce & Marketing Coordinator This person is responsible for putting together interesting, varied and delicious seasonal fruit and veg bags each week for our box scheme, coordinating the sales of produce from our Hawkwood growing site to a number of outlets, and […]
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April 23, 2025 by Laura
Secrets of the Salad Leaves: How to Grow, Blend and Eat OrganicLea’s Salad Mix Sat 10 May 2025, 10:30 AM-4:30pm, Hawkwood Plant Nursery, E4 7UH Of all the edible crops, salad leaves make the most sense to be grown in the city. Quality and nutritional value deteriorate rapidly once picked, so they are best consumed […]
April 21, 2025 by Laura
Sign up for fortnightly bunches of freshly cut flowers delivered to a local pickup point from May-October and bring summer into your home while being part of OrganicLea’s Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) Flower Scheme – helping to fund our ongoing work supporting wild pollinators.
April 10, 2025 by Laura
Growing together Join us for our first open day of the year, on Sunday 27th April 12 pm – 4 pm, for a celebration of growing and connecting. We’ll have all you need to give your growing season a head-start – featuring our biggest plant sale of the year, bargain bag-your-own compost, and free plants […]
April 3, 2025 by Laura
OrganicLea Forest School Join us for an active, spring summer term of Forest Time, OrganicLea’s homegrown forest school for families. Forest Time is run on our beautiful and abundant 12 acre food growing site, Hawkwood Plant Nursery. Our fun, creative, adventurous and fully outdoor sessions are designed to support connections – to ourselves, to each […]
March 20, 2025 by Laura
Mushroom cultivation for beginners Date: Saturday 12 April 2025 Time: 10:30 am to 4:30 pm (including a lunch break, please bring your own) This one-day workshop will deliver the foundational principles for cultivating many of the mushrooms that are considered edible and medicinal. Combining a mixture of theoretical and practical, the workshop will cover the […]
Order compost from us for home delivery, for the following postcodes: E4, E10, E11, E10, E17, IG8 and IG9, or for collection from Hawkwood Nursery.
The Oxford Real Farming Conference is coming to London! Join us on 4 – 5 April 2025 at the pioneering growers’ cooperative OrganicLea, which has built a hugely successful peri-urban growing business in the Lea Valley over more than two decades. We’ll be gathering at OrganicLea to explore a variety of unique practical skills from horticultural […]
March 17, 2025 by Laura
Seed Sowing for Beginners Saturday 12 April 2025, 10.30 am – 4.30 pm This course is aimed at absolute beginners, who are interested who are interested in understanding seeds and how to care for them, especially when you want them to germinate and become a healthy plant! We will cover: Year-round growing ideas (Compost) Growing […]
March 10, 2025 by Laura
Grower Roles We are recruiting for three grower roles. Details are as follows: Kitchen Gardener, Royal Docks Part time, permanent: 3.5 days a week on average Salary: £15.96/hour Based at: Royal Docks Academy, E18 and Hawkwood Community Plant Nursery, E4 We are looking for someone to join our workers’ co-operative and support our work – […]
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