Celebrate squash and pumpkin season this autumn with the Garden Museum Learning team in collaboration with Incredible Edible Lambeth, Border Crossings and Black Rootz.
There will be opportunities to watch cooking demos, tastings, seed sowing, squash & pumpkin identification, film screening and discussion with food growers and chefs.
Timings for the day:
In the museum nave
1-4pm
Purchase a plant from Black Rootz
Admire a range of squash and pumpkins on display
Hear from growers in the Black Rootz and Incredible Edible Lambeth networks.
Take part in an art activity – make a pumpkin mask – suitable for children (and adults!)
In the Garden
1-4pm Drop by for seed sowing with the Garden Museum learning team & Incredible Edible Lambeth. Seasonal seed sowing of spinach, broad beans, pak choi, rocket, mustard and garlic. Bring a bag to take your pot home.
3.30pm – 3.45pm (approx) Storytelling session suitable for adults and children with Elki Guillen about Huitzilin (a hummingbird) and cempazuchitl (the Mexican marigold) which is now in season in Mexico.
In the Learning Studio
1.15-2pm Squash risotto demo and tastings (aimed at adults)
3.00-3.45pm Squash Quesadilla – drop in and tastings (for adults and kids)
In the Learning Space
2-3pm
Film Screening and Q&A with Michael Walling, Border Crossings Artistic Director and Elki Guillen, Chef, gardener and researcher who brings Indigenous approaches to conservation and cooking. The film is about the Three Sisters method of growing squash, maize and beans and was filmed on location at Hurst Drive School garden in London and at the Festival of Maize and the Festival of Native Seeds in Mexico. The Garden Museum hosted school visits earlier this year as part of Border Crossing’s year long project.
3-4pm Repeat film screening of the short film ‘Sankofa’ made about Ras Prince. For details see above.
Partners
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Incredible Edible Lambeth
Incredible Edible Lambeth
Incredible Edible Lambeth is a network of food growers and activists who are working to improve our communities. They exist to re-localise the food system in Lambeth to nurture and strengthen the community. They do this by bringing in resources and funding, running programmes and services and advocating for our members and a more localised food system.
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Border Crossings Origins
Border Crossings Origins
ORIGINS creates a unique opportunity to engage with Indigenous artists and activists at the cutting edge of cultural resistance, environmentalism and spiritual tradition. Working with some of the most significant cultural institutions in London, ORIGINS brings the world's Indigenous artists and cultures to the heart of the capital.
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Ubele Initiative
Ubele Initiative
The Ubele Initiative was founded in 2014, following dialogue with African diaspora leaders. Community-rooted and collaborative in character, Ubele focused on effective solutions to persistent social and economic issues. Ubele is taken from Swahili meaning “The Future”.
As an African diaspora led, infrastructure plus organisation, we believe in empowering Black and Minoritised communities in the UK to act as catalysts for social and economic change. To achieve this, we work with community leaders, groups, and organisations in the UK and beyond to strengthen their sustainability, resilience, and voice.
The Black Rootz food growing collective was established in Spring 2019. Incubated by Ubele at Wolves Lane Horticultural Centre, it is the first multigenerational Black-led growing project in the UK, where the older generation share their expertise on growing whilst also supporting youth engagement in their surrounding natural environment.