Stories From the garden
I WENT TO BUY A BOOK FOR YOU, AND FOUND SO MUCH MORE…
Malaika Bain-Peachey, a member of staff until March this year, shares her writing from summer 2024 before taking Paper Garden Generators to camp in Wilderness Woods and reflecting on the racist riots that broke out throughout the country. She sends this from her new place in the world where she is slowing down to the rhythm of the seasons, hands returning to the soil and writing
from Scrap to Story: Recycling Paper with Purpose
Fellow Cassie writes her learnings and reflections after the project with socially engaged artist Sogand Barham who shared her knowledge and skills for paper making reusing and reimagining old pages, documents, plants connected with the garden and our lives.
The Story Garden is moving … not closing
We always knew the day would come where we would need to move from our current location, and now after 6 beautiful years, that day is approaching. Our last day will be on Saturday 27 September, and leading up to this, we have a calendar packed full of activities, celebrations and community gatherings.
Who am I? What am I?
Time to pause. A poem written by Samika, poet and Global Generation’s fellow, currently documenting the making of our new permanent garden.
Medicine for Exam Stress: The Youth Bed
Things are significant when they happen in threes. Why was garlic following me everywhere? Read Jaime’s story about the creation of a new Youth Bed in the Story Garden
Triangle Rambling
There’s a lot of things I could say. I could tell you about…
How my journal entries from the past 4 months are filled with love letters to the Triangle Site. I could say how I’m a religious journaller and have been since I was 12 even though I’m not always so good at keeping good habits.
Amir’s journey to becoming Chair of Trustees
When asked the other day as part of an event what I was most proud of at work, I did not hesitate to say that it was seeing young people that I worked with when I first joined Global Generation 15 years ago now take up leadership roles…
Composting Season
It’s those cold days in February, where Imbolc has passed with its promises of the upcoming Spring and it’s still just about light when you get home from work but your thermals are still very much in circulation. It’s like when you wait for someone to pass you in a doorway but they also wait and you both go but then jolt to a stop. It’s here but it’s not, not just yet.
VOICES OF THE AIR
Voices of the Air is currently a project that we are dreaming up together with GP and friend Jane Myat. Cassie, Young Fellow, shares why she wants to be involved ...
Seeds, new beginnings and ancient ways
What better way to start our new season of Family Saturday, than celebrating seeds! The start of life for so many plants…
The Village, the storm and the award
Growing older brings new challenges but also new gifts. It has been 20 years since the first tutoring afternoons with the local village’s pupils; since the job at the zoo in Devon, with tarantulas and Madagascar hissing cockroaches. From Italian working-class kitchens to Siberian tigers’ enclosures, from Icelandic sport halls to London urban gardens.
Learning new skills
My experience with GG can be summarised perfectly with an experience where I was building carpentry skills.
BUILDING SLOW
We often hear “time is money” and fear “wasting time.”
Society teaches us to race against it, but what if we worked with time instead—allowing it to shape and evolve with us?
WE’VE BUILT A BUILDING
When I started working at the Triangle site at the end of 2024 I didn’t know what to expect. I hadn’t really done anything like it before but was ready to throw myself in.
Meet the trainees: COHORT TWO
Meet our second cohort of earth build trainees! Their focus has been on all things wood, including green woodworking and the timber construction of the kitchen. They have learned on the job, while working on our sustainable natural build construction project to create our first permanent community garden, at the #TriangleSite.
My Year with Global Generation: Everyday Spaces, Extraordinary Change
The everyday often gets overlooked, doesn’t it? We walk past spaces, objects, and people without a second thought—but these small, everyday moments hold the power to create real change.
Learnings from Future Neighbourhoods
It’s a beautifully golden afternoon in late October, and I am sitting in Somers Town on a table outside the pub, admiring the seven foot sunflowers that are growing opposite the medical centre.
Unexpected Journeys
Zakariya Sharif Nur, former Global Generation’s Generator and Alumni and now creative strategist ( https://zacology.com/about_ shares the story of when he joined GG as a young person almost 20 years ago and was involved in the creation of our first KX rooftop garden
Looking back at 2024 and looking ahead at 2025
I wake to a bright crisp winter’s day. Finally … after weeks of storms ravaging the country.
As the year ends we are reminded of the magic and beauty that our gardens bring, as places to come together and celebrate, even in difficult times. This year it has been challenging not to be taken over by fear and despair, with extreme weather events being mirrored in different ways across the world, from floods to droughts; with the most recent political events; with wars destroying land and displacing entire populations; and with the constant increase in the cost of living creating ever more inequalities between those that have and those that do not.