GREENING THE GREY - THE POTENTIAL OF PARKLETS
What seems like way back in 2019, my partner Rob and I entered a competition with Hackney Council to design a community parklet
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JOURNAL
Representing creative individuals whose craft, skill and practices are all connected by a commitment to positive change.
- Nov 3
SASKIA WEIR - THE MEND HOUSE
We’ve long been fans of repairing and reusing, especially the growing movement towards embracing
- Oct 27
CHLOE DUNNETT - SITOPIA FARM
Sitopia is a new, urban farm. We grow organic food and flowers on two acres in Greenwich, South East
London
- Jul 29
HUGO AND OLIVE GUEST - GLEBE HOUSE
Hugo is a chef and Olive is an artist, together they run Glebe House; a guest house and farm to table restaurant in East Devon
- Jul 21
SARA GRADY - HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT
British Pasture Leather, co-founded by Sara Grady and Alice Robinson, is the first supplier of leather that is traceable
- May 19
HOLLY SMITH - BY THE HEDGE
We make honey and grow wool. We craft imperfect objects out of the foraged and the found;
- Apr 30
NAT MADY - HACKNEY HERBAL
My journey into the world of herbs started and was very much fuelled by joining a community garden close to my home in Hackney.
- Mar 27
ALEXANDER THOMPSON BYER - GROWING IN THE WIND
I live on an island called North Uist in the outer Hebrides with my fiancé Susannah, my son Cedar and cat Coco.
- Feb 1
HAZEL BRYER - WHY BUY ROSES IN FEBRUARY?
Hazel Bryer is an illustrator and printmaker. She works mostly with linocuts, relishing the handmade process of cutting and inking up a...
- Feb 1
EMILY ANN HARRIS - WHY BUY ROSES IN FEBRUARY?
Emily Harris’s work is deep rooted in her childhood growing up on a family farm. Nature has always been the central subject of her work,...
- Feb 1
LAURA DIGGENS - WHY BUY ROSES IN FEBRUARY?
Laura ’s artistic practice is centred primarily on architecture, her background in landscape design and working with the seasons meant...
- Feb 1
ED DINGLI - WHY BUY ROSES IN FEBRUARY?
Introducing Ed Dingli as the first of our WBR23 campaign artists - Ed is an illustrator and designer whose work is driven by...
- Dec 16, 2022
SOIL & SEED - A PHOTO SERIES FROM MARIA BELL
The infamous quote from Albert Howard reflects a simple truth: “The health of soil, plant, animal and man is one and indivisible.” Too...
- Jul 20, 2022
GEORGE WEBBER - GREENSIDE PRIMARY SCHOOL
I knew I was on the right track when a boy helping out in the garden with some broad beans said “Oh I get it now Miss, that one seed we put
- Jun 14, 2022
ALEX CHERRY - GROUNDSWELL AGRICULTURAL FESTIVAL
My father Paul and uncle John Cherry had been farming the land at Weston in North Hertfordshire for over three decades...
- Apr 29, 2022
LIV JAMES - DOWN FARM GROWERS COOPERATIVE
Liv first met Liv at university in the student journalism room of the SU. Despite taking different routes to get there, they've found...
- Apr 15, 2022
KIRSTY LEE - MORE OUTDOOR FRIENDS
Our world is becoming an increasingly mobile place; the distribution of life can feel abundant as we move across town, city and country.
- Mar 18, 2022
KATHE KACZMARZYK - FOUNDER OF SPECERIBUTIK
When I dreamed about what I would do when I got older, I never once imagined it would be owning and running a shop.
- Mar 5, 2022
IAN JAMES - WATER LANE
Water Lane is one of the projects that may never have come about if it hadn’t been for the first lockdown.
- Feb 18, 2022
WILL ROLPH - WHAT CAN TWO FIELDS REALLY CHANGE?
In 2013, a visit to Greece would change our lives. We just didn’t know it at the time.
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