Radicle Plant Walks London - Highbury Fields and surrounds

Want to engage with the plants in your landscape in a deeper way? What are their stories and how have they got here? How do they fit into the local ecology and global context? How can we protect and work with them?

Radicle Plant Walks weave botany, horticulture, foraging, activism and politics to explore local plantscapes in their fullest sense.

Together we will understand the complex history of plants, honour indigenous stories, discuss the gifts of the plants growing around us, and explore how we can build grassroots food sovereignty and create a future based on respect for the land, plants, all peoples and creatures.

We will be looking at all manner of plants from street trees and ornamental plants to those growing wild.Note these walks are not just about plant identification or foraging. Whilst you will no doubt learn to identify more plants and understand their uses, the walks are intended to inspire honest discussion and shift perspectives.

Location

We will be exploring the largest green space in Islington, Highbury Fields, and surrounding green spaces. Exact meeting point to be confirmed.

Accessibility

The walk will be step-free and we will be moving around at a gentle pace.

Whilst based around the spoken word, the walks are multisensory, and we encourage touching, smelling, and tasting of plants where safe to do so.

If you have any specific accessibility needs, please do not hesitate to contact us on aGVsbG8gfCBub3VyaXNodGhld2lsZCAhIGNvICEgdWs=.

About the facilitator

The walks will be facilitated by Than Gunabalasingham of Nourish the Wild CIC. Than is a horticultural educator, with a background in food and environmental policy research, who now works to create and teach about resilient food systems. Most of all he is passionate about food system change, creating edible landscapes that mimic the principles of nature and restoring wild spaces.

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