Transition Town Launch Event

Sunday 2nd March, 1 – 4pm

Edible Landscapes London, Finsbury Park, N4 2NQ

Join our Launch Event for Transition Town Finsbury Park and Crouch End! We will start with a brief introduction to the Transition Town movement. There will be lots of time to eat and talk about what we would like to build together, and transform within our local communities. Please bring your ideas, your visions, and plant-based food to share. This event will happen alongside our normal Sunday session, so you are welcome to come and get involved in the garden. for more information see the website.

Barnet Seed Swap

Sunday 2 March, 2pm-4pm

John’s United Reformed Church, New Barnet, EN5 1RH (Somerset Road entrance)

Come along to Incredible Edible Barnet’s annual seed swap if you would like to save money on seeds, try new plants and get to meet some lovely local food growers and gardeners from your community. There will also be cake!
All you need to do is bring along spare seeds or small plants – whether veg, herbs, fruit or flowers – that you’ve saved or sown, a packet you no longer want or cuttings from your garden. Don’t worry if you don’t have any to bring, there are plenty to share! We also welcome any gardening bits and bobs you’ve got lying around looking for a new home – all swaps welcome. Then you simply swap with someone else and take new seeds, plants and stuff for free. We hope to see you there! More information at Facebook page

Nature Connection Walk in Hadley Woods

weekly starting Wednesday 5th March 12pm-1:15pm

meet outside Barnet Leisure Centre, 1 Lawton Rd, London, Barnet EN4 9BS

This walk is perfect for nature lovers and anyone looking to unwind, switch off their phone and take a break from the hustle and bustle of city life. We will be taking it at a slow leisurely pace that suits everyone, so we can connect with our surroundings, ourselves and each other. You will be guided through some nature connection techniques which can open us up to new ways of experiencing the natural world and our place in it. There is space for chatting, hugging trees and quiet reflection and observation. This is a free weekly community event intended to bring people together and cultivate connection with the Earth. More information at the Facebook page.

Permablitz at Cecil Sharp House

Saturday 8th March, 10am-5pm

Cecil Sharp House, 2 Regent’s Park Road, London NW1 7AY
The apple trees at Cecil Sharp House are a key edible, folk feature in this permaculture garden around the Grade II listed building of the English Folk Dance and Song Society. This permablitz will focus on pruning and other winter care for the apple trees. Apple trees are seen as quintessentially English but you’ll learn about where they originated from before they grew in this country. As well as the mini-workshops there will also be a folk tale about Apple trees.
Mini-workshops include:

How to prune mature apple trees
Different varieties of apple trees and which varieties to grow together
The best mulches for apple trees

RSVP Essential: if you want to come along you need to let us know so we know numbers for lunch, which is provided, and so we can give you all the specific details. Contact us at info@permablitzlondon.com letting us know you want to join Cecil Sharp House Permablitz.

Woad: Natural dye workshop

Sunday 9 March, 12:30pm-4:30pm

Calthorpe Community Garden, 258-274 Gray’s Inn Road, London, WC1X 8LH

Traditionally blues in Europe came from a plant in the cabbage family: Woad. The colour is hidden and only emerges when the fabric comes out of the dye bath and breathes oxygen. Come and learn about the process and dye your own silk scarf. We’ll also use Weld, a plant that we have used for thousands of years to give a beautiful, clear yellow and then overdye with Woad to give green. Simple lunch is included and you’ll take away two silk scarves that you’ve dyed during the course. For more information and booking see the website.

Hackney Herbal Workshops in March

start Sunday 9th March

Join Hackney Herbal for their programme of workshops that show you how to use herbs in a creative way.

Sunday 9th March, 2pm – Grow Your Own Herbs: Plan Your Herbal Year – Hackney Herbal, Unit 16, Celia Fiennes House, 8-20 Well St, London E9 7PX
Wednesday 12th March, 6pm – HERbs for Health – National Maritime Museum, Romney Rd, London SE10 9NF
Saturday 15th March, 10am – Herbal Wellbeing Masterclass – Hackney Herbal, Unit 16, Celia Fiennes House, 8-20 Well St, London E9 7PX

For more details and booking see Hackney Herbal website

Soil, diversity and finding your niche’ with Iain Tolhurst

Tuesday 11th March, 6:30pm-8pm

Online

Join our campfire event for a fascinating insight into the various components that make up Iain’s Stockfree organic farm – from the green manures and diverse rotations, to the woodchip composts and integration of agroforestry to the vegetable system. The integration of crops, a systems approach to pest and disease management and biodiversity all make for a fascinating and durable agricultural system, which people come from all over the world to visit. FREE for Permaculture Association Britain Members. More details and booking at the website

heart circle – exploring our inner landscape and common ground through embodied presence and relational practice

Friday 14th March, 6pm-7pm

Story Garden (Global Generation), Ossulston St, London NW1 1DF

The heart circle is an occasion for people to connect to themselves, others and the world by tapping into the deeper ecology that holds us all together. As a group we will create a space to contain our presence, stories, joys, vulnerabilities and insights. For more information see the website.

Bumblebee ID Training

Saturday 15th March, 10:30am-3:30pm

Sydenham Garden, 28a Wynell Road, London, SE23 2LW

This workshop will introduce you to the wonderful world of bumblebees. You will learn how to identify the different species and engage with Bumblebee Conservation Trust’s ‘BeeWalk’ monitoring scheme – one of the largest bumblebee datasets in the world. The event will consist of a classroom session, followed by a Bee Safari around the beautiful Sydenham Community Garden to look for these bumblebee species. Organised by Capital Growth – for more details and booking see website

Tread Well on Earth –
A 2-Day Introduction to Permaculture

Saturday 15th March – Sunday 16th March

Paper Garden, Teredo StreetLondon, England, SE16 7LW

Learn the basics of Permaculture Design on this two-day Introduction to Permaculture and be ready to try it out in your garden, your workplace and your life. For more details and booking see the website.

DIY Beer Brewing Course

Saturday 15 March 2025, 11 am – 4 pm

Organiclea, 115 Hawkwood Crescent, Chingford, E4 7UH

Unleash your inner homebrew master! Join us for an immersive one-day workshop on the art and science of crafting delicious beer. Suitable for complete beginners and those with some beer brewing experience, this hands-on experience will guide you through the basics of homebrewing. We’ll look at the history of beer and resources available to us, we’ll go through all the steps and equipment you’ll need to successfully complete your first brewday. And you’ll get to bottle and take home a delicious bottle of homebrew beer!
To book a place, please visit our Ticket Tailor page.

How to build & grow a school garden

Monday 17th March, 8pm

Trust Links Rochford, Trust Links House, College Gardens, Rochford, SS4 1YL

Presented by Chris Collins, Head of Horticulture Garden Organic. More details at South East Essex Organic Gardeners website.

Forest garden maintenance at the Cecil Sharp House Garden

Wednesday 19th & 26th March, 10am-12.30pm

Cecil Sharp House, 2 Regent’s Park Road, London NW1 7AY

Cecil Sharp House is a Permaculture Learning and Demonstration Site (LAND project). Our March sessions will be teaching about pruning, planting annual seeds, adding unusual edible perennials and setting up wildlife habitats. Everyone welcome. If you’d like to come along to either or both of the sessions please let us know and RSVP to info@permablitzlondon.com.

Gardeniser Pro training course

Wednesday 19th March – Wednesday 21st May

Online and Oxford City Farm, Cornwallis Road, Oxford, OX4 3NH

Gardeniser (Garden-organiser) is an indepth course covering everything but the practical gardening side of running a community garden or city farm. If you work in the sector, are setting up your own site or are just interested in getting into the world of community gardening, this is a great place to start! More information on the application form

Spring Propagation

Saturday 22nd March, 10:30am-3pm

Ecolocal, The Lodge, Honeywood walk, Carshalton SM5 3NX

The art of plant propagation is as old as civilisation. With techniques learned and adapted from nature, we can save money and have more of our favourite plants, with enough left over to share with friends. In this one-day beginners’ workshop we will cover a range of techniques that can be undertaken as the days of the new year start to lengthen. With lots of information and a practical grounding in the basics, this workshop will help new gardeners fill their plots with flowers and vegetables in the months ahead. Price £38. For more information and booking see the website.

Spring Equinox at Meadow Orchard Project

Saturday 22nd March, 12pm-10pm

Meadow Orchard Project, Hornsey Health Centre, 151 Park Road, Crouch End, London N8 5JD

We are holding a Spring Equinox Celebration at Meadow Orchard on Saturday 22nd March ’25, the line-up is sounding exciting! We will be offering a mixed range of activities during the day along with a Fireside song from 5.30. For more details see the website.

Traditional wool skills course – spinning, dyeing and felting

Wednesday 26 March – Wednesday 14 May

Kentish Town City Farm, Camden NW5

Come along to learn about the traditions of spinning and felting. This introductory course will start by meeting the Jacobs sheep at the farm whose wool we’ll be spinning. You’ll learn how to use a drop spindle and once spun we’ll ply into yarn and then dye with plant dyes. Finally you’ll learn how to make felt, making a felt pouch or pot, integrating some of the yarn you’ve spun and dyed.

Wednesdays 6.30pm-8.30pm – 26th March, 9th, 30th April, 14th May. No experience necessary. More details and booking on the website

Everything Soil!

Saturday 29th March, 10am-1pm

Paradise Cooperative, Dobbins Field, Heathfield Rd, London SW18 3HT

Join this masterclass at Paradise Cooperative in Wandsworth for a detailed look at soil types, soil testing and nutrition, soil care and improvement, composts and mulches and no dig techniques. All in pursuit of building healthy soil for growing healthy crops. This session is ideally for people that have been growing food for a while and want to deepen their understanding of how to get the best out of their crops. Beginners are also welcome, we won’t go heavy on the soil science, the focus will be on the practical applications for horticulturalists, so it helps if you have some experience of food growing. Organised by Capital Growth – for more details and booking see website.

Forthcoming Events

London Permaculture Design Course – Creating Resilient Communities

Saturday 26th April to Sunday 19th October

Paper Garden, Teredo St, London SE16 7LW

The Permaculture Design Course is a 72-hour often life-changing experience, accredited by the UK Permaculture Association. Over the period of 6 weekends between April 26th and October 19th 2025 we will explore practical and creative solutions for building resilient communities and designing abundant eco-systems. For more details and booking see the website

Events outside London

The Permaculture Association lists courses and events throughout Britain (and beyond!). for details of events happeing outside London, go to the Events Page, and for details of courses held nationally see the Courses Page.

Permaculture Magazine

Permaculture magazine – earth care, people care, future care is a visionary magazine that will give you the tools needed to create productive and resilient homes, gardens, economies, relationships, schools, farms and communities. Our range of articles includes no-dig gardening, food forests, cutting edge community projects, renewable technologies, regenerative agriculture, DIY & upcycling projects, natural building, education and wellbeing. It is full of solutions, projects and pioneering ideas from the very best of the permaculture movement.

Also, all subscribers get a whopping 25% discount off of Permanent Publications books – Buying from them directly is the equivalent of shopping locally and helps to keep revenues within the permaculture community.

21st Century Permaculture Radio

Archive programmes available at https://www.mixcloud.com/21stcenturypermaculture/

Brighton Permaculture Trust

Head to the Brighton Permaculture Trust. Check out their website for news of courses, events and Permaculture by the sea. They are running a number of Online permaculture, Eco Build, and gardening courses. See the website for more details and booking.

London Permaculture Network – Interactive Project Map

The London Permaculture network has launched a map of permaculture, and permaculture-friendly projects in London. Go to https://www.londonpermaculture.com/map/ to see it. Use the map to guide yourself around the projects in your local area, and the whole of London.
This map is still being developed, and we would love your project to be included! If you would like your project added to the map please contact us at info@londonpermaculture.com

How do I get events and webinars in the newsletter?

If you want your webinars, offline & online events, and announcements to be in the London Permaculture Network newsletter (sent out at the start of each month), please email them to us, at info@londonpermaculture.com before the 15th of the month, and they will go into the next month’s newsletter.

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