Grow Your Own Caribbean Vegetables in London Course: Callaloo

Grow Your Own Caribbean Vegetables in London Course: Callaloo

Join experienced growers Dee and Danielle at Allens Gardens in Stoke Newington on June 15th from `1-4pm to learn how to grow Callaloo from seed.

We will also be sharing recipes (please bring your favourite Callaloo recipe!) and exploring questions such as:

• What plants and foods did Caribbean people grow – and where?
• How did Caribbean people adapt to grow culturally relevant food in a different climate?
• How do Caribbean stories enrich our understanding of the power and joy of gardening?

You will go home with your own Callaloo plant to watch grow at home, a booklet to help you take care of it and some more seeds.

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Who is this course for: This course is specifically for people of Caribbean heritage who are aged over 18. By Caribbean heritage, we include people of African descent, Asian descent, indigenous Caribbean, multi racial and mixed race peoples. This list is not exhaustive and we rely on trust and honesty for those booking a place.

Absolutely no experience of growing vegetables is necessary.

This workshop is for people aged over 18, however children are welcome as long as they are supervised, but please email us with how many you want to bring, so we know how many to expect. We particularly welcome Hackney residents, who might want to volunteer at Allens Community Garden after the course.

Ticket deposit: Places are free, but we ask you to cancel your place if you can't attend, to ensure all places are used. Please email if you have any queries about attending.

Other workshops: You can book this course as a stand alone course, or book to attend the other two workshops in the course - scotch bonnet and broad leaf thyme.

We will be having a celebration of this project on 21st June at the garden! Please save the date and come along to see an exhibition of photos from this course as well as food and a Caribbean plant sale.

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Your teachers:

Dee Pascal O'Mahoney(they/them) is a Hackney local and has worked as a grower at Allen's Community Garden for 7 years and teaches regularly locally. They would love to share how the Jamaican and Dominican traditions of growing our own food can be reconnected with in London.

Danielle Stennett(she/her) is an urban farmer and teacher who currently works as the head food grower at Stepney City Farm. Over the last three years, she has designed and taught her own food growing curriculum. Danielle learnt to grow food from her grandfather who immigrated from Jamaica to England in the 1960’s.

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Contact us:

Email: YWxsZW5zY29tbXVuaXR5Z2FyZGVuIHwgZ21haWwgISBjb20=
Instagram: @allenscommunitygarden
Substack: @allenscommunitygarden

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