Urban Harvest: Our Garden & Orchard

1. Our Garden
2. This Month’s Garden Activities
3. Garden Plans
4. Mop from above
5. Community gardening
6. Urban Harvest
7. Upcoming activities
8. The Orchard

Our Garden

Welcome to the Meadow Orchard Project. The NHS has designated the land behind Hornsey Health Centre for community use. Volunteers are managing it as a community garden, orchard, and wildlife space.

We look ahead to welcoming you to this precious wild space for all to enjoy and share!

This Month’s Garden Activities

This Month’s Gardening Task List

Garden Plans

In December 2024 we started work on our extensive plans to develop the food growing potential at Meadow Orchard. Our volunteers worked really hard building the new semi raised beds and hugel beds in the kitchen garden area.

Mop from above

In 2024 our volunteers flew a drone over Meadow Orchard Project. Click the link to enjoy the photographs of our unique and somewhat hidden local wild space!

Community gardening

Community Spaces are the heart of a community. At Meadow Orchard, we strive to guarantee a warm welcome to our beautiful garden space.

Everyone is welcome, regardless of your level of gardening experience, feel free to join in or just enjoy the space. You don’t have to be a gardener to enjoy Meadow Orchard. As well as our own community of volunteers we also support charities and non profits such as The Garden Classroom, Elemental Home Education, Scouts, Woodcraft Folk, Bee Connection, The Visionaries, Goodgym, artists and musicians.

Urban Gardens really benefit from the wider local community too, upcycling materials and benefitting from waste materials through community composting and composting waste from local businesses. You can really help Meadow Orchard by dropping off kitchen waste a bag of hedge or grass cuttings, or even your old Christmas Tree!

The food growing space IS the real heart of our garden project. We have several cultivated semi-raised beds for growing fruit and vegetables to share. We also have perennial beds for herbs and ornamental plants.

Urban Harvest

We like to share the produce grown at Meadow Orchard Project. Most food grown is consumed onsite during events and socials after our volunteering sessions. We support events such as London Capital Growth’s urban harvest and Good to Grow, any excess food is distributed to local food banks. We are part of the Social Parks and Farms network. We support events such as London National Park City’s Happier Together campaign. Helping to create a greener, healthier, and wilder neighborhood.

Upcoming activities

The Orchard

The fruit orchard has been planted along an avenue to the northern perimeter of the site. It includes apple and pear varieties. Other fruits such as Medlar, Cherry, Plum, Almond, and Mulberry are also planted. Additionally, there are Hickory, Hazel, Walnut, Gooseberries, and Goji-berries. Sea Buckthorn, Sechwan Pepper, and June-berry are included as well.