Stitching Gardens Together

Stitching Gardens Together

Come join us for a collective protest banner making workshop at National Trust - Morden Hall Park!

Stitching Gardens Together brings together two hands-on art workshops exploring practices of creating and protesting for gardens and green public spaces in London’s urban fabric. We will be building on Morden Hall’s industrial past and history of opening up its grounds for children and becoming a publicly accessible park for the people of London. Working with our hands we will be creating a collective protest banner to celebrate and ensure the protection and creation of gardens in London.

Two-part workshop to create a collective protest banner to celebrate and ensure protection and creation of community gardens in London

Part 1: Seeding New Futures: Get hands on in a seed paper making workshop to create a collective protest banner using old paper and wildflower seeds.

Families are welcome. Would be great if the same families came to both workshops, but also open to new participants for the workshops

Organised by Tend Collective as part of Grow Urban Festival

Tend Collective is born out of community growing, making, and tending to our lands and each other. Starting from a process of scattering seeds, the project entangles gardening and art as collective processes of creating and learning from each other. Centring the cultivation of food in our cities of concrete and divide, we aim to empower local communities to collaboratively sow seeds, harvest abundance, and eat and make art from the life blooming out of the cracks.

Run by creative gardeners Romany Taylor and Mattie O’Callaghan, Tend Collective is rooted in working with local families to create an edible and ecologically flourishing garden through co-design and co-making processes. Celebrating tending to and mending both our relationships with ourselves, each other and the world, the project aims to empower families with skills to garden and create. Tend Collective extends beyond the garden into thinking about how we can repair relations across our cities through hosting creative gardening workshops, researching and storytelling through their community zine Tender blooms, and collaborating with a range of artists, designers, gardeners and educators to reimagine a city full of plants and tenderness.

Host or Publisher Tend Collective