The Grow Urban Festival 2025 is a vibrant, week-long celebration of urban greening, food cultivation, and community resilience, taking place across London from 7–15 June 2025. Organized by Capital Growth in collaboration with partners like the National Trust, Natural History Museum, and Imperial College, the festival features over 50 events, including hands-on workshops, talks, gardenContinue reading “Meadow Orchard @Grow Urban Festival 2025”
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Get Involved at Meadow Orchard: A Haven for Nature, Learning, and Community
At Meadow Orchard, we offer a rich and varied volunteer experience where you can connect with nature, learn new skills, and be part of a vibrant, caring community. Here’s just some of what you can get involved in: Gardening & Growing Orchard & Meadow Care Rewilding & Permaculture Wildlife & Ecology Beekeeping Community & Well-beingContinue reading “Get Involved at Meadow Orchard: A Haven for Nature, Learning, and Community”
Why Soil Testing is Essential in a Community Garden
Soil Testing Updates 9/4/25 Proposal made for testing soils for contamination based on advice by members of London Transition Town Groups. 18/4/25 We are currently planning a brief meeting to discuss the proposal for a potential soil contamination test and to plan the next steps. 1/5/25 At our May committee meeting we raised the issueContinue reading “Why Soil Testing is Essential in a Community Garden”
Plant Propagation: Mint Cuttings
Learn how to easily propagate mint from cuttings in water with this step-by-step guide. Perfect for beginners, this simple method shows you how to grow new mint plants indoors using just a glass, water, and sunlight. Whether you’re expanding your herb garden or sharing plants with friends, water propagation is fast, clean, and rewarding. Discover the best tips for cutting, rooting, and transplanting mint for healthy, thriving growth. Ideal for peppermint, spearmint, and other mint varieties. Start your own endless mint supply today with this easy DIY method for growing mint from stem cuttings in water.
Our Connection with Clay
What is Clay? Clay is a naturally occurring, fine-grained soil made up of tiny particles of rock and minerals, primarily hydrous aluminium phyllosilicates. It’s unique in that it becomes soft and workable when wet, yet hardens when it dries—and even more so when fired in a kiln. Throughout human history, clay has played a vitalContinue reading “Our Connection with Clay”
Spring Bulbs @MOP💚🌺🌹🌷
Over the last couple of years we’ve signed up to receive free bulbs from the Haringey Parks Department, we’ve also signed up to receive bulbs from MPGA (Metropolitan Parks and Gardens Association) through their Bulbs for London Programme in association with Taylors Bulbs. We also supplemented these with another 160 native Bluebell and Fritillary bulbs.Continue reading “Spring Bulbs @MOP💚🌺🌹🌷”
The Fascinating World of Yellow Meadow Ants
Discover the fascinating world of Yellow Meadow Ants (Lasius flavus) thriving in London’s urban landscape, especially in our disused tennis courts! These golden-yellow ants have adapted to clay soil and abandoned spaces, creating intricate underground tunnels. The combination of stable temperature, moisture retention, and minimal disturbance makes old tennis courts the perfect environment. Yellow Meadow Ants rely on a symbiotic relationship with aphids for sustenance and contribute to soil health. Learn how these ants, often unnoticed, play a crucial role in transforming neglected areas into thriving microhabitats. Explore their surprising presence in London’s green spaces today!
European Orchard Bees Nesting at MOP
Solitary Bees Our volunteers have been delighted to see a European Orchard Bee nesting in the habitat wall we installed on the side of our green metal tool shed last year. But what exactly are solitary bees and are they different from honeybees? When it comes to locating bee habitat, they pretty much like theContinue reading “European Orchard Bees Nesting at MOP”
Pedal Power Workshop – Postponed
Dates Dates and details to be confirmedTime 10.00am – 6.00pm CostWe want to make this course available to everybody, no matter your financial circumstances. The course is offered on a conscious contribution basis. Pay what you can afford and what you feel is fair for the teacher! Places are limited so please book early toContinue reading “Pedal Power Workshop – Postponed”
GoodGym @MOP 9th April 🏃♂️
GoodGym back for their seventh volunteering activity at MOP! Date Wednesday 9th April ’25Time 7.00 – 8.00pmFor more details https://www.goodgym.org/v3/areas/haringey Edit 29/4/25 You can now view the goodgym report here: https://www.goodgym.org/v3/reports/there-s-not-mushroom-here It’s always fun to see just how much goodgym can achieve in their hour sessions! This week our keep fit pal and general good-do-erContinue reading “GoodGym @MOP 9th April 🏃♂️”
Meadow Orchard Project 