Weekly Workshop Series
Where Seeds Grow: Garden workshop with Earth Tenders
Weekly on Mondays 10.30-12.30 PM
Monday 8 September- Monday 10 November
Penfold Hub Garden 60 Penfold Street (opposite The Showroom)
£30 for 10 sessions (For concessions or drop-ins contact magdalena@theshowroom.org)
This 10-week workshop series will explore gardening as a living practice that connects food, medicine, craft and memory. Working with plants from seed to harvest, we will consider how the garden can support our sense of home, wellbeing and community care. The sessions will weave together hands-on gardening with creative and reflective activities, inviting participants to reconnect with ancestral and collective knowledge, experiment with food and medicine-making, and natural crafts, with time to reflect on seasonal cycles.
By returning to seeds and remedies throughout the programme, participants will trace the slow unfolding of growth and transformation, both in the garden and in their own practices.
We encourage regular attendance for the workshops in order to get the best experience.
All that you touch,
You Change.
All that you Change,
Changes you
Parable of the Sower, Octavia E. Butler
About Ali Yellop
Ali is a community food grower, cook and educator with a decade of experience in horticulture and community organising. She co-directs Earth Tenders and is passionate about food cultivation, nutrition and communal skill-building as pathways to self-empowerment and collective determination.
About Earth Tenders
Earth Tenders is a black-led community garden and hub based in southeast London focusing on reclaiming land, food and ecological knowledge, to strengthen collective health and determination for the long-term. Their work responds to the community's need for access to grow culturally relevant foods, offering a safe outdoor environment and space for cross-cultural exchange across generations.They grow cultural foods and medicinal crops, redistribute food grown and host free workshops across food growing, natural crafts, creative arts and wellbeing practices. Their work primarily centres BPOC, queer, migrant and low-income communities who often feel excluded from green spaces. By cultivating food and culture collectively, Earth Tenders challenges systemic barriers, restores relationships with the land and local ecosystems, and creates fertile ground to tend to communal creativity and collaboration.
