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Be a friend of Cranford Park
The fantastic Friends of Cranford Park are running some awesome events. Grow Heathrow (currently known as Snow Heathrow) will be be going to the winter tree identification walk at 11am, Sunday 16th...
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Getting ready for the scrumping season
The London Orchard Project is an initiative promoting orchards and fruit trees in London. They are working with Londoners to plant and harvest apple, pear and plum trees all over the city, and help us...
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Mon 22 April: how to forage wild chervil without dying
On Wild Food Mondays, visitors to Grow Heathrow have already learnt how to make cherry plum blossom tea, chickweed salads, and horseradish sauce. Now, on 22 April, we’re hosting a day dedicated to...
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Mon 29 April: Capers for free
Free wild food workshops are every Monday at Grow Heathrow. Join us on Monday 29th from 2-4pm to make capers from dandelion buds. We’ll learn to preserve dandelion buds (taraxacum agg.) in brine, like...
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Foraging Fridays: free wild food every week
Free wild food workshops are thriving every Friday at Grow Heathrow, from 2 to 5pm. Friday 10th: cow parsley tabouleh Learn how to safely tell cow parsley (anthriscus sylvestris) apart from its deadly...
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Cranford Park, balsam bashing and a secret garden
Cranford Park has loads of brilliant events coming up, from balsam bashing to a bat walk and even an invitation into the secret garden. This is a reminder that the next Quarterly Meeting of the...
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Official ‘Yarrow Yurt’ opening, 29th-30th June
Please join us for the official ‘Yarrow Yurt’ opening on Saturday the 29th and Sunday the 30th of June at Grow Heathrow, Vineries Close, Sipson, UB7 0JH. What we have in store for you: Saturday 10am –...
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We’re out of jars
If you have any spare clean, empty jars, we’d love to have them. Over the last two days we’ve bottled six kilos of pickled elderberries and fifty jars of sour blackberry preserve. It’s going to be a...
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Sat 21 Sep, 1pm: elderberry workshop
Grow Heathrow is now an edible forest collapsing under the weight of blackberries and elderberries. So, on Saturday 21st September, as part of the Urban Harvest network we’re putting on an elderberry...
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WORKSHOP WEEK THIRD WEEK OF THE MONTH
In addition to our weekly Growing Sunday and Community Workday Thursdays, we now have Workshop Week on the third weekend of every month and week lead up. Come down and join us for: Foraging Friday...
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Wild and free salads: Fri 18 April, 1-3pm
Well hello foragers. 2014 is on us and we’re partying hard with an ID walk and salad making stroll from 1-3pm on Fri 18th April. This year, if for some embarrassing reason you haven’t heard, weekly...
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Poisonous carrot cousins and wild hogweed ‘asparagus’: Fri 16 May, 1-4pm
April was a loads of fun; 30 of us came down and learnt how to identify the mustard family (brassicaceae), which has no poisonous plants, as well as the springtime linden (tilia spp.) leaves that are...
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Elderflower cordial: Fri 13, 1-3pm
Yep, it’s that time of year again. The field by the old garden centre is full of red clover, and the rotting greenhouse frames are burping up sprays of elderflowers. We’re gonna make some elderflower...
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Pickled elderberries: Fri 18 Jul, 1 – 4
Living in broken rotting greenhouses has its perks. What plant books flatteringly call ‘wasteland species’ may not have the looks but as we like to say here, even a stopped clock is right twice a day....
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Bottled blackberries: Fri 22 Aug, 1-4pm
The highlight of our foraging year. If Grow Heathrow hasn’t been evicted, we’re going to bottle loads of blackberries. Bring clean empty jars and you will earn respect, win honour and know true...
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Sat 5 Sep, 1-5pm: Elderberry vinegar workshop
Along with steamed hogweed buds (and blackberries), the other favourite foraged edible at Grow Heathrow is elderberry vinegar. Come on Saturday 5 September from 1 till 5 and join us. As always, we’ll...
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Herbal Workshop on Winter Immunity – Elderberry Power!
Saturday 5th September from 1pm – 5pm The Elderberry (sambucus nigra) has long been treasured for its anti-viral properties. It ripens towards the end of summer in good time for the cold wet months...
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Wellness Gardening at Grow Heathrow
Perhaps on one of the last sunny days of the summer a Hounslow based gardening group visited Grow Heathrow to join in with creative gardening workshops. Together we gathered herbs to make herbal teas,...
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Herbal Workshop: Spring Tonic Vinegar Making, To The Roots!
Saturday 5th March from 2pm As part of Grow Heathrow’s fantastical 6th Birthday celebrations, join us on Saturday for an informative herb walk around the site with community herbalist Rasheeqa Ahmad...
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