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The UK's first Black-led food growing enterprise, working to achieve food sovereignty and justice for all POCs in the UK.
An @ubeleinitiative project

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🌱 Pathways to Community Assets 1: Learning Visit to Wolves Lane

Last week, we kicked off our Pathways to Community Assets workshop series with a learning visit to Wolves Lane Centre in Wood Green.

Together with community groups from Lambeth and Southwark, we explored how community assets can support local people, create opportunities and bring communities together.

Wolves Lane Centre is a fantastic example of how a community space can grow into a hub for sustainable food growing, learning, enterprise and community activity.

A big thank you to Wolves Lane Centre, The Ubele Initiative and Black Rootz, who hosted us for the day, and to everyone who joined us for a day of shared learning, inspiration and connection! 🌿

✨ This is just the beginning! We have plenty more Pathways to Community Assets events coming up. Visit the link in our bio to explore upcoming sessions and find out how you can get involved.

📸 @hemerywright

#stourtrust #PathwaysToCommunityAssets #communityspace #wolveslanecentre #urbangrowing

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This #BlackHistoryMonth🖤, we’re celebrating the communities making a difference by:
🌱Improving access to good food
🌱Nurturing food empathy
🌱Reminding us of the power we hold when we come together. 💚
Today, we’re spotlighting @BlackRootz__, project by The Ubele Initiative and the UK’s first Black-led food-growing enterprise, championing food sovereignty and justice for People of Colour (POC) across the UK.

Through community-led food growing, Black Rootz is helping people reconnect with the land, build knowledge and work towards a fairer, more inclusive food system in the UK.

SWIPE to learn more!

#BeEnriched #EnrichingCommunities

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Throwback to an incredible sprouting workshop by Paulette and the Black Roots team at Wolves Lane Community Centre.⁠
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Paulette shared how sprouting beans can increase the nutritional content of our diet, while only demanding minimal inputs and space. Her energy and enthusiasm for plant-based nutrition was infectious, and the team left with a new found appreciation for lentils, beans, pulses!⁠
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@wolveslanecentre⁠
@blackrootz__⁠
@ubeleinitiative⁠
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#PlantBased #OrganicFood #BlackRootz #CommunityCentre #CommunityGarden

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Kinda chic to build community and build capacity for nature campaigning.

Massive thanks to EVERYONE who made Saturday’s Urban Nature Day such a success.

If you’d like to join the leading youth movement for nature in the UK, you-know-what-to-do!

Drop us an email at ukyouthfornature@gmail.com with a little bit about yourself and where your interests lie — we’ll be in touch!

#NatureCampaigning #UrbanNatureDay #YouthForNature #YoungEnvironmentalists #KindaChic

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Autumn is here, and @wolveslanecentre is getting ready to celebrate the season!

Join us for the Autumn Seasonal Market at Wolves Lane — a day celebrating harvest, community and all the abundance grown right here in our community garden.

Expect plants and produce, food, market stalls, entertainment, workshops and activities for adults and children — with plenty of opportunities to explore, connect and enjoy the space together.

Entry is free and everyone is welcome!

🟣 Sunday 4th October, 10:30am to 4pm
🟣 Wolves Lane Centre

Are you a stallholder, creator or maker interested in joining the market? Sign up via the link in our bio to find out more and register your interest.

Come along, bring your people and celebrate the season with us 💜

#theubeleinitiative #autumn #autumnmarket #community culture

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The Big City Bug Hunt 🐛🪲🕷️🐞

This summer I was a Critter Consultant (best job title ever!) for this years Big City Bug Hunt!

This is a London-wide citizen science campaign designed to record and celebrate invertebrate life in urban food-growing spaces. What a way to engage local communities with nature right?

I facilitated sessions at some incredible spots that really demonstrate the power and impact of community spaces.

2-4 @camberwelltrianglegardeners a resident powered green space in south east London founded by the force of nature @brixtonhousewifeinthegarden . A previously disused public lawn turned thriving community garden and allotment.

5-7 @ccacamden a flourishing community association in the heart of Camden Town. Boasting a site that offers inclusive spaces and engaging activities supporting learning for all ages.

8-10 @deencityfarm an urban farm in the second greenest borough in London, Merton! It provides the community with a chance to learn about the rural environment and animal husbandry.

11-13 @wolveslanecentre a horticultural centre and community food growing hub nestled within Wood Green, North London. It’s not just about plants here, it’s also about bringing diverse communities together to learn, connect and cultivate opportunity.

A huge thank you to @capital_growth for getting me involved and the opportunity to witness real community and environmental stewardship.

#urbanfoodgrowing #biodiversity #bugs

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Some photos from the wonderful community dinner @mydinnerwith__ held at Rose Lipman Building with @auntiesstreetfood hosted by @jesscole___ and featuring music by @sohopopgroup. Photos by @zephyr_thomas

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What if the knowledge we need isn’t new at all… but something we already knew? 🌱

At our last Black Growth Community Day, @gogrowwithlove helped us reconnect with Afroecology. Ancestral knowledge rooted in land, food, community and reciprocity.

From seed saving and companion planting to storytelling, sharing food and learning alongside the next generation, the day was a reminder that we are not separate from nature. We are part of it. 🌍

This isn’t new knowledge. It’s knowledge we’re remembering.

🌾 Come and l experience Black Growth for yourself?

Join us at our Harvest Wellness Festival

Sunday 27th September 2026
Myatt’s Field’s Park,
Brixton
Get your free ticket on the link below or in our bio
https://www.tickettailor.com/events/blackgrowthcic/2296245

🌱 Or come along to our next Community Day

Black Growth Community Day - Black History Special
Meadow Hill , Roots Allotments,
Croydon
Saturday 31st October 2026

Come learn, connect, grow and be part of the community.

💬 Which one will we be seeing you at?

More info in bio

🎥 Created & Edited By @candicechenade

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Another amazing day at the Islington Grow Show! 🌷 🌾 🌶️ 🥕

Fruit, Vegetables, herbs, flowers and more from all over the world - grown here in Islington!

Around 1000 people came to Caledonian Park and enjoyed a whole variety of workshops from Sustainable Nutrition Academy, @archwayupcycle, @octopuscn, @blackrootz__ , and many more, as well as a free Filipino buffet lunch, African drumming sessions and free fruit and veg giveaway.

The Grow Show is a great opportunity for people to come together and celebrate growing in Islington. Whether it's a community garden, a pot, or a window sill, everyone can get involved in gardening and enjoy the many benefits it brings.

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On reflection, @civic_square - a huge thank you for hosting a crucial weekender last month focusing literally on our survival, not only as a planet, but as a community and as individuals.
The heat, drought sunshine we experienced this year, might feel like a distant memory given the change in weather now but, sounded an alarm for us to consider not only how we sow crops to eat, but also how we maintain them to get them to our tables with potentially less water in coming years.
We learned a lot, made great connections and thank you @immykaur and @blackrootz__ for being passionate trail visionaries, that set a standard of resilience for us to follow.
We look forward to more conversations, more challenges and more success stories as we embed ourselves in the grassroots of community and sow seeds of change.
Thank you ✌🏾#community #gentleactivism #seedsofchange #reparations #water

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Sometimes we think we are beginning something new, when really we are remembering something that was planted in us long before we had language for it.

For me, that remembering has come through grandmothers’ gardens, childhood allotments, Afroecology workshops, herbs in my own hands, food from family gardens and the quiet pull of the land calling me back.

#ComingToTheLand #EarthMedicineJournal #Afroecology #AncestralWisdom #PlantWisdom

This was the question that opened the essay for me...

Maybe I'm the one who is growing also...

#LandBasedHealing #BlackGrowers #KitchenGarden #FoodAndMemory #CaribbeanFoodways

Reconnecting roots at @rootsallotments with @gogrowwithlove and @blackgrowthuk ...

#NatureConnection #BlackGrowers #FoodAndMemory #LandbasedHealing #BotanicalWellness

Wolves Lane Horticultural Centre @wolveslanecentre is a world of its own...

A little peek at the Scotch Bonnet Peppers

Exploring The 5 Principles of Afroecology with @gogrowwithlove and @blackrootz__

Perhaps some of the things we love most are not random at all.
Perhaps they were planted in us long before we knew.

My new essay, “Coming to the Land,” is now live on Substack.
If this quote speaks to you, I think the full piece will too.
Read it via the link in bio / link shared.

Earth Medicine is where these reflections become practice — botanical skincare, ritual waters and herbal wellness made with intention.

Explore the range via the link in bio.

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Things to do this bank holiday weekend in North London September 5-6

📚 Queen’s Park Book Festival. After nine years, Queen’s Park Book Festival is bowing out with one final weekend in the park.

🍽️ My Dinner With: Jess Cole & Friends. Travelling not for profit supper club. Aunties Street Food doing the cooking with food inspired by being fed in your mum’s or auntie’s kitchen.

🎪 Palmers Green Festival at Broomfield Park. Festival returns.

🚢 Angel Canal Festival. Islington’s most loved free community festival back now in its 40th year.

🎵 Denmark Street Sessions. For one day, Denmark Street turns its music shops, studios, bars and tiny venues into one long free festival.

🎨 Art Car Boot Fair at Lewis Cubitt Square. 100+ artists selling prints, paintings, photographs and one off pieces directly to people browsing.

🚂 London’s Transport in Miniature. London’s transport network shrunk down to model size. Tiny Tube trains, trams and railways running through detailed miniature stations and streets.

🌳 Highgate Wood Heritage Community Day. Annual community day in Highgate Wood.

🌱 Islington Grow Show. Gathering for people who grow things and people who like seeing what their neighbours have managed to grow.

🎪 Mews Festival in Muswell Hill. Avenue Mews, small pocket of shops, creative spaces and a brewery, opens up the whole lane for a neighbourhood festival

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