Skip Garden Kitchen Reopening!
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After our winter hibernation, the Skip Garden Kitchen and Cafe reopens with seasonal delights from 2 March 2019.
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Intergenerational Community Work with Age UK
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At Global Generation, our focus is always to bring together groups of people who would not
normally spend time together to bond and share conversation over shared food and
learning new things. This year we have been lucky enough to receive a grant that allow us to
do just that. With funding from Age UK, our intergenerational project has brought together
people of different ages from the local area.
Read MoreWhat's Growing: February
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Happy to have made it out of January with our fingers and toes intact, we now enter one of the most exciting times of the year to be a food grower!
Read MoreGlobal Generation’s Approach to Education
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Together with Emma, our Gardens and Community Facilitator, as part of our Mprof program, we have recently been exploring what we at Global Generation educationally offer children and young people.
Read MoreOld Materials, New Stories: Clay in Canada Water
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Down at the Paper Garden, storytelling is a core element of the workshops we hold with children from local primary schools each week. Many of the stories are written by facilitators, and lead on to the activities planned for the session and correspond with the overall theme for the term.
Read MoreWayfinding on a Milk Float: Our Evolution at Regent's Place
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The origins have always helped me to find direction for the future. The wayfinder’s ethos has helped me to understand this - but instead of a canoe, I will be driving that milk float. It will be navigating around Euston in search of new islands.
Read MoreJanuary Jobs in the Garden
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Next month we’ll be busy sowing for spring and summer, but January can be a fairly quiet time in the garden, in terms of growing, at least. The cold weather and dark evenings can make working outdoors challenging, and can limit your activity out in the garden itself. If you do want to get outside though, there is still plenty to be done. Here’s what we’ve been up to.
Read MoreGrowing a Different Kind of Story at Regent's Place
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In any ecosystem, the most fertile and biodiverse area is the edge, whether that be the waters’ edge, or the edge of a forest. For many years now I have been drawn to the ‘edgelands’ in the middle of a city; the often out-of-bounds spaces inside developers’ zones. Travelling hopefully, my colleagues and I have chosen to work on the outside of the inside.
Read MoreNotes from the Education Team: A Trans-disciplinary Approach
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Using these routes to explore why plants are important, I try to foster a sense of greater connectivity with the world around us, and less human-centric views within the children.
Read MoreRevisiting Global Generation's History: 2018
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Founding Director Jane Riddiford, looks back at just some of Global Generation’s highlights from 2018, and what we have to look forward to in the upcoming year. “Global Generation was founded back in 2004, with the feeling that by combining the creativity of nature with the imaginations of children and young people, we would create magic. Now, 14 years later, we are grateful for all of the great ways that this has proved to be true in 2018, in the Skip Garden, The Paper Garden, and on our campsite at Pertwood Organic Farm in Wiltshire.“
Read MoreWinter Solstice at the Paper Garden
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“Honouring the solstice has become a tradition at the Paper Garden, and as the days of 2018 shortened, our team began reflecting on the explorations made through its seasons”, writes Founding Director, Jane Riddiford. “The year took us on an exploration of the stories surrounding the magical yew and the mighty oak, so a celebration of these two icons of our landscape, and the inspiration they have given us over the year, seemed fitting on its closing…”
Read MoreThe Story Garden in the making
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An empty piece of land surrounded by busy St Pancras station to the East, the imposing wall of the British Library to the South, the huge glass building of the Francis Crick Institute to the North and then the amazing and diverse neighbourhood of Somers Town to the West.
Imagine this empty piece of land filled with plants, pollinators and people, young and old learning from each other and all of us learning from the rhythms, patterns and cycles of nature that surround us.
Read MoreGrowing the Paper Garden’s Forest
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Gardens & Community Facilitator, Emma, gives an update of what has been happening at the Paper Garden.
Read MoreWinter Gardening
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Gardens Manager, Julie, provides tips for keeping your garden going over the cold winter months ahead…
Read MoreAutumn Away Day in Regent’s Park
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Twice a year, as the seasons change we take a day as a whole team to stop, to connect to nature and to reflect on our work together. This time we reflected on our harvest - the achievements and learnings from the past year; what we want to compost - i.e. give rest to; and what new seeds we want to grow as we look forward...
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