Our gardens have been developing since 2017, in different phases and locations around the London borough of Waltham Forest. This land, known for being fertile for growing food, is also a rich home for herbs and medicine.

We had been pro-actively supported by Organiclea Food Growers coop, also based here and key actors in generating and contributing to a local equitable food economy, community building and shared land reclamation for socially beneficial purposes. With their relationships with housing associations, council and private residents they encouraged us to take on a number of garden spaces to cultivate medicinal herbs in community so that there was access to learning and training in this.

Through the last 7 years, we have been developing these spaces as sites of connection - with each other and with the land, support, learning, herb growing and harvesting, medicine making and loving environments for the ecosystems. There are two in Leyton (one housing estate garden and one private residential garden), one in Walthamstow (another private residential garden) and the largest one in Chingford, an allotment site. Find details about each one in the drop down tabs.