The Growing Kitchen is an award-winning resident-led community garden project, which promotes inclusivity and diversity. A Lottery grant helped to transform this disused site in a peaceful corner of Hoxton into a beautiful communal garden where residents garden, cook and socialise. There are micro-allotments, raised herb beds, a communal foraging area with wildlife pond, and a covered space with clay oven and barbecue. Residents are constantly looking for new areas to cultivate and have also created a wild orchard and flower meadow nearby in the heart of the estate.
Visitor Information
Open
Saturday 10:00–17:00
Activities
Refreshments, peppermint tea and homemade cakes for sale. Informal guided tours, children’s activities and picnic areas available.
Two steps lead from the main entrance into the garden. A secondary entrance on the other side has wheelchair access. A slight slope leads to the communal area.
Prize-winning garden with raised beds for 17 local people growing a variety of vegetables on a previously neglected site. Fruit trees and bushes, shrubs, flowering plants and a communal herb bed.
A thriving community food-growing project, created on the site of a disused playground, comprises 42 wooden boxes for growing a range of produce and wildlife-friendly plants.
This multi award-winning community garden project features a hidden paradise of 46 plots and communal lawns, herb and wildlife gardens. It was established in 1982 and is managed and maintained by local people.
This award-winning wildlife garden is a unique nature conservation site, which is tended by volunteers from the Barbican Wildlife Group to enhance biodiversity in the City.
