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...

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