Capital Growth announces new spring calendar of food growing training

Published: Thursday 2 March 2017

From keeping bees to planning your plot, growing herbal teas to green woodworking, there is a Capital Growth training session to suit gardeners' interests at all levels. New growers can check out 'Organic food growing for beginners' on 1 April at St Luke's Community Centre in Islington, while more experienced green thumbs may be interested in 'Introduction to social and therapeutic horticulture' happening at De Frene Market Garden in Sydenham on 31 May.

Training sessions are taught by passionate and experienced London growers, and designed to give participants practical tools to take back to their own gardens. Sessions fall into one of four categories: Urban food growing to teach the basics, Growing enterprise for those who want to sell what they grow, Get children growing to help people working with children outdoors, and Grow for it!, a chance to learn about more unusual topics related to urban gardening.

This year Capital Growth is working in partnership with 6 community garden hubs to deliver training, including

The Cecil Sharp House Garden: A low-maintenance decorative, ecological and edible permaculture site, which also hosts the annual London Permaculture Festival, in Camden.
Cordwainers Garden: A neighbourhood garden in Hackney growing fruit, vegetables, herbs, as well as plants for dyes and medicinal use.
Oasis Nature Garden: A local wildlife haven for all ages to enjoy environmental play in Stockwell, including a small woodland, ponds, fire circle and vegetable patch.
St Luke’s Growing Connections: A community garden in Islington of raised beds filled with seasonal food, edible flowers and fruit trees and bushes.
De Frene Market Garden at Sydenham Garden: A unique wellbeing centre that uses its gardens to help people in their recovery from ill-health, based in Lewisham.
The Regent’s Park Allotment Garden: Capital Growth’s flagship site offering volunteering, training and events for hundreds of Londoners every year.

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Maddie Guerlain
Former Economic Policy Coordinator Maddie Guerlain has now left Sustain.

Maddie lead on Sustain's mission to ensure the sustainable food and farming sector is a priority within national policy and investment linked to UK-wide efforts to stimulate a green economic recovery. She also founded and managed Roots to Work, a platform for job opportunities in the field of good food.

Maddie has held a diversity of roles within Sustain since joining in 2015. Most recently she was the Communications and Learning Coordinator (maternity cover), leading Sustain’s communications strategy and delivery, as well as supporting campaigns and promoting the work of alliance members. She was also a member of the FoodSHIFT 2030 team, an EU project supporting innovative food systems across Europe as part of the UN Sustainable Development Goals, with a focus on facilitating the exchange of knowledge and information between sector bodies and project participants.

She previously managed network communications and learning for UK food poverty alliances with Food Power (2017-2021) and developed the Food Learning Forum (2019-2021) for a cohort of leaders from the food sustainability sector. She has also coordinated a number of Sustain's London projects, including Capital Growth (2015-2017), Good Food for London (2017-2019) and Good Food Retail (2019-2021).