If you’re looking for something a bit different, we are very excited to invite you to the third event in our series of online talks, Connecting Communities which brings together community leaders from around the UK who are working to provide access to gardening for all.
Gardening can be an exclusive, and even environmentally-damaging, practice. Historically, those with access to land have set the parameters of what a garden should look like and who can enter. High walls, locked gates, manicured lawns, prescriptive plants and plenty of pesticides are a thing of the past.
Gardens should surround us and be accessible to all. They have the potential to be varied and generous spaces which reflect local communities.
Join us as we discuss why gardening is important, what counts as a garden, how access to gardening changes individuals and how it brings communities together.
Poppy is an ecologically focused grower, forager, home cook and star of Channel 4’s ‘The Great Garden Revolution’.
Sara Venn
Sara is a horticulturist, writer, food activist and general disruptor. She founded Incredible Edible Bristol in 2014 to bring people together over food.
Sui Searle
Sui is a trained gardener and writer. She founded @decolonisethegarden in 2020 to counter the harmful, exclusive, white-centric narrative within the horticulture industry.
Ashley Edwards
Ashley is Head Gardener at Horatio’s Garden at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital in Stanmore. The garden is a sanctuary for patients with spinal injuries.
