WILDLIFE PLANTING DAY

 
Everyone is welcome to join us for a planting day in the wildlife area from 11am to 2pm on Sunday 29th April.

 

We will be planting wild flowers in the wooded area which runs alongside the road. This was recently upgraded by cutting back bushes and trees and creating a path throughout the area.

 

Funding for the new plants is provided by Western Riverside Environmental Fund.

 

If you would like to take part, just turn up on the day. This activity is suitable for all ages.


FOOD SESSIONS AT THE PARK

 

FOOD HEROES

 

Come along and learn how to make home made pizzas during our Food Heroes session from 10.30am to 1pm in the park depot meeting room on Saturday 28th April.

 

This programme gives local people the chance to teach other people about the food they know and love. We pay local people £40 per session and give an allowance for food. If you are interested in becoming a food hero please contact Rebecca Maddox by email.

 

FAMILY COOK AND EAT BREAKFAST CLUB

 

We will be making green eggs and ham at the family cook and eat breakfast club next Friday 4th May, which takes place in the Mulberry Centre from 9am to 10.30am.

 

Parents and children cook and eat together during these sessions, which are free.

 

RETIRED PEOPLE'S LUNCH CLUB

 

Retired people are welcome to come and eat lunch made with vegetables and fruit from the greenhouse at the depot from noon each Friday.

 

The family cook and eat, food heroes and retired people’s lunch club are all funded by the Big Lottery Fund’s Local Food scheme and are free to all participants.

 

CAFÉ OPENING TIMES

 

The café will be open from 10.30am to 5.30pm on Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday throughout the summer.

 

We will be installing a cooker in the next couple of weeks and launching a new menu of freshly cooked, locally sourced (our greenhouse!) food.
  
    Also do say hello to Yasmin and Monique (our new Cafe staff members) in the Little Cat Cafe this weekend, where they have homemade soup, bread and delicious cakes. Watch this space as they are developing a fantastic new range of freshly made food using our greenhouse produce. 
 

OPEN DAY AT GREENHOUSE AND FREE LUNCH

 

Join us in the greenhouse for a gardening session and free lunch during our open greenhouse day on Sunday 6th May 2012.

 

We’ll be clearing and planting at the greenhouse from 11.30am to 2pm, with a free lunch at 1pm. If anyone would like to help cook, please turn up at 11am.

 

Support for gardening activities will be provided by Streetscape, who train apprentices for horticultural work, and are currently based at the park.

 

There will also be a plant sale from 11.30am so come along and buy reasonably priced vegetable plants that you can grow at home.

 

HELP US PLAN

 

Help Myatt’s Fields Park Project plan activities in the park during meetings over the next few weeks:

 

Food group – planning the summer food workshops plus development of the café – Thursday 3rd May 2012

 

Events group – planning the summer fair on 2nd June – Monday 7th May 2012

 

Growing group – planning what we’ll grow in the greenhouse – 10th May 2012

 

Everyone is welcome to attend these meetings which are held from 7pm in the depot meeting room (next to the greenhouse).

 

Please contact Victoria Sherwin via email  or 0207 926 0394 if you’d like any further information.

 
 

WILDLIFE PLANTING DAY


 

Everyone is welcome to join us for a planting day in the wildlife area from 11am to 2pm on Sunday 28th April.

 

We will be planting wild flowers in the wooded area which runs alongside the road. This was recently upgraded by cutting back bushes and trees and creating a path throughout the area.

 

Funding for the new plants is provided by Western Riverside Environmental Fund.

 

If you would like to take part, please contact Kasia (our park manager) on kolszewska@lambeth.gov.uk.

 

This activity is suitable for all ages. 

   ...Also here's a reminder about these forthcoming events...

FOOTBALL TOURNAMENT

We will hold a football tournament and barbeque to celebrate the new football pitch at Myatt’s from 10am on Sunday 22nd April 2012.
 
The day will include competitions for under 9s, under 12s, under 16s, and adults. Play will be 15 minutes each way, all teams to be seven aside.
 
Anyone who can put a seven aside team together is welcome especially school teams, youth clubs and groups (you must have 10 players registered for subs etc).
 
Please register teams with Myatt’s park manager, Kasia Olszewska (kolszewska@lambeth.gov.uk). 

MYATT’S FIELDS PARK FAIR 2ND JUNE
 
Local people and organisations are invited to book their stalls for Myatt’s Fields Park fair, which will be held on June 2nd 2012.
 
The fair will celebrate the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee with a Big Lunch and performance by a big band on the bandstand from 1pm to 3pm. There will then be dancing with a jazz band from 3pm to 5pm.
 
There will also be a small fairground and children’s entertainment, as well as a range of community stalls.
 
If you would like to book a stall, please stand by! The form will follow. 

 
 
 
  Horticultural charity Streetscape will be offering unemployed people the chance to see if they would like to train in horticulture during taster days at Myatt’s Fields Park on 20th and 22nd March and 12th April 2012.

 

Streetscape say...


“Are you young and unemployed? Ever thought about a career in landscape gardening? Streetscape may be just the chance you are looking for.

 

We are a landscape gardening company that specialises in providing apprenticeships to 18 – 25 year olds who are long term unemployed.

 

Come along to one of our taster days at Myatt’s Fields Park to get a feel of what landscaping is all about, and put yourself forward as a candidate for a future apprenticeship.”

 

For more information or to book a place, contact James Gubb, info@streetscape.org.uk 07930 243570 with your name and preferred date or visit www.streetscape.org.uk.
 
 


Help us get ready for this year’s planting and enjoy a free lunch with other gardeners during our first open greenhouse day of the year on 5th February 2012.

We’ll be clearing and planting at the greenhouse from 11.30am to 2pm, with a free lunch provided by our Food Heroes programme at 1pm. If anyone would like to help prepare the food, please turn up at 11am and cook alongside Myatt’s Fields Park Project chair, Marjorie.

Support for gardening activities will be provided by Streetscape, who train apprentices for horticultural work, and are currently based at the park.

There will also be a plant sale from 11.30am so come along and buy reasonably priced vegetable plants that you can grow at home.

 
 
 

Help us plan the future of the café, food projects, gardening in the greenhouse and events at three meetings to be held in the next couple of weeks:

Thursday 20th October: Food group meeting in the depot meeting room

Monday 31st October: Events committee meeting

Wednesday 2nd November: Growing and greenhouse project meeting

These groups are led by members of Myatt’s Fields Park Project, and everyone is welcome to attend and give us your ideas.
 
 

FAMILY COOK AND EAT BREAKFAST CLUB

Parents and under-fives children are invited to cook and eat together at our family cook and eat breakfast club every Friday at 9am in the Mulberry Centre.

RETIRED PEOPLE'S LUNCH CLUB LAUNCH THIS WEEK

Everyone is invited to enjoy a freshly cooked lunch at our retired people's lunch club which will be held every Friday at the depot meeting room from noon to 2pm.

Vegetables and fruit growing in the greenhouse will be used whenever possible in the meals that are prepared.

FOOD HEROES

Everyone is invited to come along and help prepare a vegetarian Mediterranean meal on Saturday during our second Food Heroes session, which will run in the depot meeting room from 10.30am to 1pm.

Our Food Heroes programme means we employ local people to teach other local people about the food they know and love.

The family cook and eat, food heroes and retired people’s lunch club are all funded by the Big Lottery Fund’s Local Food scheme.

 
 
On 30th July Myatt’s Fields Park volunteers and London Orchard Project picked apples and plums from one of local privet gardens and figs and mulberries from the park. Collected fruits will be used for cooking during our Harvest Festival on September 18th. Yummy!
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 We will be planting the nature conservation area in the autumn thanks to a grant from the Western Riverside Environmental Fund.

If you would like to help, look in September on the park noticeboards or the website for details of our full programme.

 

 
 

 
Everyone is invited to help us harvest fruit growing around the park during two sessions coming up soon.

 

We’ll be scouting for fruit trees and harvesting (and eating) figs from 10.30am – 2.30pm on Saturday 30th July, then harvesting plums from 10.30am to 2.30pm on Saturday 13th August.

 

There will be a final fruit tree harvest from 10.30am on 18th September for the Harvest Festival which will be held in the park from 10.30am. The fruit collected will be used to make chutney or jam in the afternoon, or juiced by the London Orchard Project.

 

If you know a tree, or have one in your garden, that isn’t usually collected, please tell us by emailing David Blair ondavid@thelondonorchardproject.org.

 

We will meet at the park depot for each session. All ages and everyone very welcome.

 

The bid to harvest Lambeth's wild fruit is carried out by Myatt's Fields Park Project in partnership with the London Orchard Project.

 
 

 The Nature Conservation (or Wildlife) Area of the Park fullfills an important  role in the borough-wide promotion of biodiversity and access to nature. The Wildlife Area page has been updated to explain its purpose and future development.


http://www.myattsfieldspark.info/wildlife-area.html