OrganicLea’s Vision for Wolves Lane:
An initiative that grows and distributes sustainably produced food to local residents and businesses; engages a wide range of people in learning and skills activities, and health and well-being benefits; establishes itself as a centre for promoting healthy eating; and offers space for community groups and social enterprises to run activities that benefit the community.
Please write with your ideas, suggestion, proposals for the future!
- Would you like to organise and lead a community activity at Wolves Lane?
- The community activities below have already been proposed – which ones interest you?
Proposed Activities
- Outdoor Gardening Club to encourage outdoor growing, including foraging and exploration of heritage vegetables
- Kitchen Gardeners – indoor gardening club to encourage balcony and kitchen gardens
- Ideas and Innovation Day: “How to Upcycle and Recycle”- a day for people to put forward their ideas, exchange and barter.
- Play area – indoor or outdoor. After trying to get small children to walk around the venue, it would be good to have an area where they can let off a bit of steam. The good thing about indoor play areas is that you can make a small charge for them, ie at the Wyevale Garden Centre in Enfield (I appreciate this is a chain).
- Worksheets of things to spot at the garden centre (i.e. five animals, five red things for younger children; an arachnid, an evergreen for older children)
- Cafe with great coffee and healthy recipes
- Homework clubs
- Toy exchange
- Book exchange
- Book Club
- Writers Circle
- Wildlife exploration
- Bird Watching Club
- Fish Club
- “I remember Haringey” – a collective memoir writing group to document residents’ memories in Haringey
- Yoga
- Walking Club
- Photography
- Art Classes
- “Learn how to make simple repairs to household goods” surgery
- Local History Events
- Public Speaking Club
- Wine Tastings
- Environmental education programme for people of all ages
- Secondary schools gardening programme for young adults from 16 to 24 years of age
- Self-led school groups ‘hiring’ areas of the glasshouses to grow flowers and vegetables which can either be cooked in their own school kitchens or used in the café
- Family Learning education programme
- volunteering programme, aimed at people with learning disabilities, to provide them with gardening opportunities and education to create their own successful garden spaces or enjoy working with others
- Local farmers market at weekends – for example Myddleton Road market (myddletonroadmarket.co.uk)
What other activities would you like to see at Wolves Lane?
Please write with your ideas, suggestion, proposals for the future!
