Since it was established in 2015 by students and staff, the allotment has been an inclusive space for everyone at Goldsmiths to tend their own plot and take part in gardening sessions, workshops, poetry readings, storytelling, art exhibitions, a heritage potato chip day, a soup restore-ant, and seasonal celebrations such as Halloween festivities, wassailing, and midsummer botanical cocktail parties. With a focus on wildlife friendly and sustainable gardening and entirely self-organised by volunteers, the allotment is a gentle place that offers a warm welcome whatever your connection to the university. The ethos of the allotment is grounded in the understanding that we are all teachers and all learners, whatever your educational background or gardening experience. As a kind of quiet activism, the allotment explores how growing and taking care of other living beings can be transformative and intimately connected to taking care of oneself. During the CCA residency, the allotment will be inviting its friends to share their knowledge and experience through workshops on subjects such as inclusive urban gardening, seed saving, foraging, fermentation, mycology, queer botany, soil microbiology, no-dig methods, herbalism and plant pigments.

Instagram: @goldsmithsallotment

To join the allotment mailing list or enquire about getting a plot, email: r.gray@gold.ac.uk

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