Upcoming Events › Adult Workshop

We are gradually renovating our Lower Greenhouse which was built in 1981 and needs a bit more than annual tlc. This month we’ll be fixing guttering to the south west wall, recoating the cold frame and tops as well as shortening the spars, cleaning the inside of the glass and marking up the panes that are to be replaced as well as numbering every pane in the greenhouse Arrive when you can and work as long (or short) as you…

We aim to grow a lot of plants this year and we need your help. Every Thursday between 11.00 and 2.00 we'll be sowing, feeding, pricking out, transplanting and dressing these plants to get them ready for sale both on our plant stand and at the Herne Hill Farmers market. You'll learn to do all these things and to nurture tiny seeds into attractive plants ready for our visitors and customers.

Learn how to light and soak our cob oven and then use it to cook pizza, bake bread, roast vegetable and cook long and slow. Getting to oven up to temperature and soaking the heat through the entire oven takes around 5 hours for Pizza temperatures of over 500°C and around 4 hours for baking bread at around 360°C. You might therefore think that this is slow food but actually, cooking a pizza at that temperature take around 2 minutes.…