Friends of Abbey Gardens

A late post to record the Urban Seed Day that happened on site in August organised by Nina and Karen.
See also some images of the event on Flickr and on the Somewhere blog.

URBAN SEED DAY at ABBEY GARDENS hosted by SOMEWHERE
Come & join us on Saturday August 16th for an URBAN SEED DAY …

We will be gathering and sowing some seeds for next year’s Harvest Garden and talking more about our long term proposals for the site. Joining us for the afternoon will be botanist ROY VICKERY (of South London Botanical Institute) for an informal afternoon of WILD FLOWER SPOTTING, FOLKLORE, SEED GATHERING & SEED SOWING.

We will be at the garden, from 3pm-5.30pm. The event is free but booking is advised via our contact page.

http://www.somewhere.org.uk/contact

The event is supported by Newham Council & Friends of Abbey Gardens, we will also have some exciting seeds from the wonderful Chiltern Seeds to give away. If you have seeds gathered from your own gardens do bring some along to swap – Louise has already given me loads of poppy seeds from her West Ham allotment.

Refreshments, materials & equipment provided. Sorry, no unaccompanied children under 14.

You might like to make an afternoon of it and also re-visit St. Mary’s Allotments (they’re off Queens Road and the entrance is opposite Princes Terrace (E13 9AJ)). I believe their open day runs from 12.30 – 3.30 pm (Also on Saturday August the 16th) and there will be a marquee with produce etc. Judging by our visit a few weeks ago on the Harvest Walk it would be well worth the trip.

Do let us know if you can join us, and pass on the link info. about the event:

http://www.somewhere.org.uk/seed_day

Best wishes

Nina & Karen from somwhere.org.uk

This entry was posted on Saturday, August 16th, 2008 at 3:00 pm and is filed under Progress.