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. Surrounded by fruit trees and bushes, shrubs and flowering plants.
Discover the history of the burial ground, visit historic graves and see how rewilding has enhanced biodiversity and sustainability. Guided tours and art installation.
This thriving community food-growing project, created on the site of a disused playground, comprises 42 wooden boxes growing a range of produce and wildlife-friendly plants.
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.
