Stories From the garden
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.
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?
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.
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.
Building the past and dreaming of the impossible
I was 14 when I first joined the Youth leadership programmes at Global Generation. Returning to the place where my journey began feels surreal. When I first arrived at the Triangle Site, I had the same feeling I did when I first set foot in the Skip Garden:
NOTES FROM A SKETCHBOOK
I was very excited about joining the Global Generation team for my year 10 work experience placement. Throughout my childhood I have been following the progress of each temporary garden, starting with The Skip Garden at the top of Kings Cross.
Meet the trainees
Our first cohort of earth build trainees has completed their programme. 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.
We are brick makers
Flow Bracey who is one of our Earth Build Trainee’s reflects on her first involvement with GG as a Brick Project Assistant for the making of our first permanent garden, the Triangle site.