SEWN Together: a localised food growers gathering in North London

Slides from the presentations can be viewed here:

Energy Garden SEWN Presentation

Barnet Council SEWN Presentation

Social Farms & Gardens Presentation

Local Nature Recovery Strategy presentation 

We are holding our forth SEWN event at the Calthorpe Community Garden in Kings Cross, in collaboration with Social Farms & Gardens, to gather food growers in North London together for networking, talks and workshops.

This event is aimed at gardens, growers and council officers woking across these boroughs: Camden, Enfield, Islington, Barnet, Brent and Haringey. 

SEWN Together – a series of events taking place across South, East, West and North London (hence the acronym!) – dives deep into the four quarters of London to platform the great work happening in food gardens tackling the nature and climate emergency and helping to build more resilient communities.

Hear about Incredible Edible Hackneys progress on getting a Right to Grow motion, and how we can gain better access to land. Explore how we can better prove the biodiversity benefits of food growing with the London Nature Recovery Strategy team and try out some nature recording methods with lead ecologist at Cody Dock. 

We'll also be looking at how we better support the people that make community gardens happen - how do we better resource our vital gardens leaders and lift the next generation of food growers up. 

Programme:

10:30 AM - 10:45 AM: Arrivals & introductions

10:45 AM - 11:45 AM: Speaker presentations & discussion: Resourcing people to run gardens 

11:45 AM - 12:30 PM: Site tour

12:30 PM - 1:15 PM: Lunch

1:15 PM - 2:15 PM: Speaker presentation & discussion: Access to land and biodiversity:

2:15 PM - 3:30 PM: Breakout groups & workshops

3:30 PM - 4:00 PM: Reflections & close