Open Gardening Day

Join COCO COLLECTIVE for their Open Gardening Day, an ongoing event held on Wednesdays and Sundays from 11am to 3pm, at the ITAL COMMUNITY GARDEN in London.

What to Expect

• Participate in hands-on activities like digging and planting to share green thumbs with others.
• Learn new gardening skills, meet new people, and find solace in the soil within a beautiful, intergenerational community garden.
• Contribute to growing culturally diverse foods, such as scotch bonnets and squashes, as a response to food insecurity and for food sovereignty.
• Engage in discussion circles, edutainment activities, food growing workshops for children, and mental wellbeing sessions.
• Discover the garden’s features including a polytunnel, greenhouse, pond, and wildflower bank, and explore climate-friendly renewable energy initiatives.

Who Should Attend

This event welcomes friends old and new, and locals interested in community gardening, learning new skills, food growing, and contributing ideas to a green space.

Practical Information

This is a drop-in event, running every Wednesday and Sunday between 11am and 3pm. No price is mentioned for attendance. The site offers a compost toilet, a summerhouse shelter, and is wheelchair and raised-bed accessible. Light refreshments are always available. Attendees are encouraged to bring gardening gloves and a reusable water bottle for top-ups.