September 2019
Outdoor Garden Yoga at the Greenhouses
PLEASE NOTE ONE HOUR EARLIER START THIS WEEK OF 10AM! SESSION ENDS 11.30AM Get your weekend off to a great start with an hour and a half of mix of slow flow hatha yoga and restorative yoga postures with mindfulness interwoven throughout the practice. Sally Ramsden of Natural Connection will hold these 1.5 hour sessions on the decking in BPCG's beautiful lower gardens * These workshops brings together all the well-being benefits of yoga with the healing energy of nature. They…
Find out more »Jess Cahill, Lis Stewart and Chris Dyer Gig at the Greenhouses
Jess Cahill, Chris Dyer and Lis Stewart perform together on hurdy gurdy, melodeon, nyckelharpa, fiddles and Maccann duet concertina. They play hauntingly beautiful arrangements of traditional dance tunes from around Europe - particularly Scandinavia, England and France – along with more contemporary folk tunes and songs. Have a listen here to really lovely and just very recently recorded rehearsals by the group. Gates open 4pm to give an opportunity to see the gardens and get home made and home grown food and drink.…
Find out more »Better Fridays – Therapeutic Gardening Afternoons
Feeling a bit low? Want to get out and enjoy nature? Fancy helping to grow tasty fruit and vegetables? Then come along at 1pm, bring your own lunch, and then from 1.30pm to try a spot of gentle gardening with Cat and Cathy. Feel free to bring along a friend or relative with you for support. We will break for plenty of tea and biscuits around 3.30pm. Cat, our gardener is a qualified psychotherapist and Cathy, our education assistant has…
Find out more »Guitar Lessons in the Gardens
Are you looking to learn or improve in guitar? If the answer is yes then come to one of our 1-on-1 1 hour guitar lessons led by guitar teacher Patrick Reynolds on alternate Saturday mornings. Patrick is an experienced teacher who can guide you in getting started, learning chords, playing rhythm and lead, song writing, scales, arpeggios and much more. Before these lessons Patrick will liaise with you to find out what aims, skills and music styles you’d like to…
Find out more »Introduction to Eco-Printing
This workshop is an introduction to the techniques of eco-printing on fabric like silk or cotton and is suitable for beginners or those familiar with natural dyeing but unfamiliar with eco-printing techniques. We're delighted to have Mette Lindahl-Wise an experienced natural dye practitioner back to BPCG to run the workshop. You will learn how to create beautiful patterns and prints on fabric using leaves and flower through binding and steaming or by using hapa-zoming to transfer the outlines of leaves…
Find out more »Outdoor Garden Yoga at the Greenhouses
Get your weekend off to a great start with an hour and a half of mix of slow flow hatha yoga and restorative yoga postures with mindfulness interwoven throughout the practice. Sally Ramsden of Natural Connection will hold these 1.5 hour sessions on the decking in BPCG's beautiful lower gardens * These workshops brings together all the well-being benefits of yoga with the healing energy of nature. They will take place on Saturday mornings up to and including October 12th. Book your…
Find out more »Lucy Farrell Gig at the Greenhouses
A rare gig from Lucy Farrell anticipated with great excitement! With the Furrow Collective, Lucy won Best Group in the 2017 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards. This year Lucy is embarking on a solo career something so many have been hoping for, since first hearing her exquisite renditions of traditional ballads and quietly moving original songs. Recently, Lucy played with Eliza Carthy & The Wayward Band’s Big Machine album and tour, and did shows with the Emily Portman Trio with whom…
Find out more »October 2019
Better Fridays – Therapeutic Gardening Afternoons
Feeling a bit low? Want to get out and enjoy nature? Fancy helping to grow tasty fruit and vegetables? Then come along at 1pm, bring your own lunch, and then from 1.30pm to try a spot of gentle gardening with Cat and Cathy. Feel free to bring along a friend or relative with you for support. We will break for plenty of tea and biscuits around 3.30pm. Cat, our gardener is a qualified psychotherapist and Cathy, our education assistant has…
Find out more »Fermenting Fun: October
Family fermenting fun with Jelena at Brockwell Greenhouses! Join us at the Greenhouses for this wonderful tasting and making session about fermented vegetables. We will share a story about magical microbes, walk around our gardens picking edible flowers, herbs, fruits and vegetables then ferment these into something delicious. You will take home a jar of vegetables to ferment at home, as well as water kefir grains to make a delicious probiotic drink. Please remember to bring two jam jars (or…
Find out more »Outdoor Garden Yoga at the Greenhouses
Get your weekend off to a great start with an hour and a half of mix of slow flow hatha yoga and restorative yoga postures with mindfulness interwoven throughout the practice. Sally Ramsden of Natural Connection will hold these 1.5 hour sessions on the decking in BPCG's beautiful lower gardens * These workshops brings together all the well-being benefits of yoga with the healing energy of nature. They will take place on Saturday mornings up to and including October 12th. Book your…
Find out more »Edible Garden in October – Autumn seed sowing
You can eat organic produce from your garden year round if you know the right things to do – and when. Every month in these Sunday morning workshops, you can learn from Cat our community gardener all about how to make your Garden Edible – 12 months of the year and using organic gardening methods. While there is still some warmth remaining in the soil it is a good to get some seeds off to an early start. These are…
Find out more »Danzon – Blues Guitar Duo
Before Django Reinhardt, there was Carl Kress, Dick McDonough and the peerless ‘Father of Jazz Guitar’, Eddie Lang. Danzon are a guitar duo who continue this tradition. Based in London, they play the works of the great 1930s-40s jazz and blues guitarists Eddie Lang, Carl Kress, Dick McDonough, George Barnes, and Lonnie Johnson. This is a Herne Hill Music Festival Gig. Book £10 (£7) tickets here Home grown-made refreshments will be on offer Gig
Find out more »Better Fridays – Therapeutic Gardening Afternoons
Feeling a bit low? Want to get out and enjoy nature? Fancy helping to grow tasty fruit and vegetables? Then come along at 1pm, bring your own lunch, and then from 1.30pm to try a spot of gentle gardening with Cat and Cathy. Feel free to bring along a friend or relative with you for support. We will break for plenty of tea and biscuits around 3.30pm. Cat, our gardener is a qualified psychotherapist and Cathy, our education assistant has…
Find out more »Guitar Lessons in the Garden
Are you looking to learn or improve in your guitar playing? If the answer is yes then come to one of our 1-on-1 one hour guitar lessons led by guitar teacher Patrick Reynolds on alternate Saturday mornings. Our experienced teacher can guide you in getting started, learning chords, playing rhythm and lead, song writing, scales, arpeggios and much more. Before these lessons Patrick will liaise with you to find out what aims, skills and music styles you’d like to learn…
Find out more »Outdoor Garden Yoga at the Greenhouses
Get your weekend off to a great start with an hour and a half of mix of slow flow hatha yoga and restorative yoga postures with mindfulness interwoven throughout the practice. Sally Ramsden of Natural Connection will hold these 1.5 hour sessions on the decking in BPCG's beautiful lower gardens * These workshops brings together all the well-being benefits of yoga with the healing energy of nature. They will take place on Saturday mornings up to and including October 12th. Book your…
Find out more »Sunday Pizzas
This Sunday, we are firing up our cob oven, and rolling out our dough! Come down around 12.45pm and choose your toppings for your pizzas! The oven's normally hot enough to be churning out pizzas by 1pm and they are delicious! Book your £4.00 Pizza Ticket now! As we hope many people can enjoy, mingle and meet at our pizza days, please only book a maximum of 6 tickets for you, your friends and family.
Find out more »Harvest Festival Feast & Music
For our Harvest Festival Feast this year, we are going to fire up our cob oven and roast the yummy courgettes, marrows and squashes we've grown in our gardens. Seasoned with our garlic, onions, tomatoes and herbs and served with some home-grown/made salads, ferments and home-baked sourdough bread, it should be a pretty delicious lunch. For pudding, we'll have something made from the soft fruits we have grown.... We are delighted also to have Emma Tubmen and Shotley Crue singing for…
Find out more »November 2019
Fermentation Workshop in November
Join us at the sunny Greenhouses where we will talk about different ways to ferment and preserve food and make seasonal ferments using locally grown ingredients. You will leave with three ferments to take home and the confidence to ferment seasonally in your kitchen. If you can bring three large (c.500ml) or six smaller (c.300ml) clean, recycled jars with you, please do. If not, we have kilner jars we can supply at cost and a limited supply of recycled jars…
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