Stories From the garden
Explicit vs Implicit
Ever wondered how community building shapes the was we learn and share knowledge? Garden Trainee Betsey Maeve sheds light on what ‘implicit’ knowledge is, and how this learning model has shaped their journey at the Triangle Site.
How Bertha Earth Ambassadors informed my approach to facilitation
The Bertha Earth Nature Connects days were for Cassie an opportunity to reflect on how she works with young people. The experience reminded Cassie that facilitation is about guiding, not perfecting—and that young people often teach us as much as we teach them.
Reflecting on waste and Circular Economies
Global Generation’s Garden Trainee, Famka Brittles, discusses the power of circular self-sustaining communities, and the role it can play in combating societies’ wasteful consumer culture.
A feeling of home
A look inside — a stream of consciousness by Ellie Awcock—Global Generation’s former Designer and Operations Coordinator, whose creative vision helped shaping our visual identity. Written a few days before spreading her wings to new lands, this piece is a reflection of what is home, the role of creativity in this changing world and a visual celebration of the now gone Story Garden.
The importance of ‘space’ for young people today
From Generator to Events & Communication’s Assistant, Sola Adeaga discusses how ‘space’ has shaped them across their personal and professional journey
Dead Wood: What I learnt from John’s little and Martin Crawford’s Gardens
Global Generation’s garden trainee Betsey Maeve explores how two gardens use dead wood in different ways to sustain life.
Gardening with waste
Joint CEO Nicole, looks back at 20 years of building gardens using construction waste. From the Skip Gardens to the Triangle site (on the making), her recent visits to other gardens, inspired a new perspective: construction waste is not just for building, but also for creating biodiverse habitats.
Cultivating Urban Forests
Isabel Davies, Gardening Trainee, explores how small urban green spaces and wildlife-friendly designs—like those seen in John Little's and Martin Crawford's gardens—can make nature more accessible in cities like London, even in the most unusual and unexpended places.
Rethinking Farming, Restoring the Earth.
Global Generation Trainee Famke learnt about regenerative agriculture and permaculture, opening eyes to the damage caused by industrial farming. Read about a visit to a food forest that showed her how diverse systems can benefit both people and the planet.
John Little and Gabion Mosaics
Samika, Junior Action Researcher, visited John Little’s green spaces and felt inspired with new ideas for using waste creatively at the Triangle Site, where they are currently working. Could industrial areas become eco-friendly sanctuaries that support nature and community?
Parenting as an act of activism: why our stories matter
Jemma, Head of Fundraising, reflects on the power of storytelling across generations, particularly within immigrant families and how the stories we choose to tell act as profound form of resistance and vision for a more compassionate world.
Sounding The Gardens
Homan Yousofi and fellow Global Generation member Lily Baldwin reflect on the creative process behind their sound album, which captures the life of Global Generation’s gardens.
The album weaves together recordings that tell the stories of people, animals, materials, and events from the past year—creating an immersive audio portrait of the gardens and their difference. This project stands as a celebration of the spaces and the rich, interconnected life they nurture.
Making Meaning: translating in the story Garden
A participatory poem by Hasan & the Global Generation team. Inspired by Roi Gal-Or’s Storytelling Day at Story Garden and the prompt:
“If Global Generation was an image, what would it be for you?”
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…