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Bringing the Country to the City
° a talk at the Soanes Centre °
Thursday April 19th 7pm
Everyone is welcome to attend this free talk covering diverse
topics such as market gardens, allotments and food and fruit
that can be grown in the city (including in estates and shared
community spaces), our engaging guest speaker will also be
talking about an experiment he has been conducting in his
garden planting a range of medicinal, edible and useful plant
species.
The talk is being given by Hugh Barnard, a local resident
who was involved with Undercurrents (now Resurgence) in the
1970s. He has had an interest in ecology, alternative energy
and alternative economics since the late 1960s. He is currently
interested in how local scale eco-ideas can be translated
effectively into local action and in what information technology
can contribute to ecology.
The talk is part of a programme of monthly events (on the
3rd Thursday of every month) hosted by Tower Habitats and
the Friends of Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park. Soanes Centre
and Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park The Soanes Centre is an educational
facility located within Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park by the
main gate on Southern Grove, E3. Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park
is a little bit of the countryside in amongst the tower blocks
and old Victorian streets in East London.
The park has a fascinating history from its opening as a
cemetery in 1841, to when it was closed for graves in 1966,
up to 2001, when it was designated Tower Hamlets' first Local
Nature Reserve.
How To Get There The nearest underground station is Mile
End on the Central, District and Hammersmith and City lines.
Local bus routes are: D6, D7, 25, 277 and 339.
For more details, please contact Rachel Carless, Sustainability
Officer on 020 7364 6649 or rachel.carless@towerhamlets.gov.uk
- for more information about Tower Habitats and how you can
get involved with local wildlife events and activities please
visit: www.towerhabitats.org
• http://hughbarnard.org
If in UK, please sign:
http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/Fruit-in-parks/
http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/cheap-utilities/
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