Botanical Books at BPCG | Merlin Hanbury-Tenison: Our Oaken Bones

Talk at BPCG | Kate Bradbury: One Garden Against the World

Brockwell Park Community Greenhouses Brockwell Park, Herne Hill, London, United Kingdom

Kate Bradbury is an award-winning garden writer, broadcaster and TV presenter based in Hove, specialising in wildlife gardening. Her new book, One Garden Against the World is a beautiful, uplifting story chronicling the joys and challenges of nurturing biodiversity in urban spaces. Despite the beauty of her own garden oasis, Bradbury grapples with climate change anxiety and the urgent need for collective action to address habitat loss and rising temperatures. Part call to arms, part intimate nature diary interwoven with personal anecdotes about her family, relationships and beloved rescue dog, Kate’s book rallies us all in the fight against climate change and habitat loss by urging us to connect to the natural world via our outdoor spaces. In conversation, Kate will give us ideas about what we can all do, no matter how small our space, to encourage wildlife and make a positive impact on the planet. Tickets are Pay What You Can from £7 | Find out more and book here

£7 – £14

Talk at Brockwell Park Community Greenhouses | Sarah Rigby and Sui Searle: This Allotment, Stories of Growing, Eating and Nurturing

Brockwell Park Community Greenhouses Brockwell Park, Herne Hill, London, United Kingdom

Join us at Brockwell Park Community Greenhouses to celebrate the release of This Allotment: Stories of Growing, Eating and Nurturing, a collection of 12 vibrant pieces celebrating of allotment life, from gardeners, food writers, novelists, horticulturalists, and historians. Editor and publisher Sarah Rigby will be in conversation with gardener, writer and print maker Sui Searle.  An allotment. ‘A ‘10 pole’ space for the growing of fruit and vegetables. A health-giving, heart-filling miniature kingdom of carrots, courgettes and callaloo. A microcosm for our societies at large as people claim their ‘patch’ and guard it fiercely, but also of welcoming arms, gifted gluts and new recipes from across the seas. They are places of resilience, resistance and freedom. They are blowsy dahlias, cricket on the radio, buzzing bees and the wisdom of weeds and seeds. This Allotment brings together thirteen brilliant writers in a glorious celebration of these entirely unique spaces: plots that mean so much more than the soil upon which they sit.   Sarah Rigby is an editor, publisher and book coach, and publishing director at the vibrant independent Elliott & Thompson. She has published some of the country’s best-loved and award-winning writers of nature and place, including Nancy Campbell, Rob...

£7 – £14

Botanical Books at BPCG | Merlin Hanbury-Tenison: Our Oaken Bones

Brockwell Park Community Greenhouses Brockwell Park, Herne Hill, London, United Kingdom

Merlin Hanbury-Tenison (conservationist, veteran and founder of The Thousand Year Trust, Britain’s rainforest charity) joins us at Brockwell Park Community Greenhouses to discuss his new book 'Our Oaken Bones', an honest and intimate true story about the astonishing healing power of nature, and our duty to heal it in return. Tickets are Pay What You Can from £5! FIND OUT MORE AND BOOK HERE

£5 – £12