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Plant Sale on Sundays

Get your vegetable seedlings and house plants from our organic growers at Wolves Lane. Visit our Centre on Sundays between 10.00 am – 3.00 pm.

Cash and card accepted.

We have also a variety of ornamentals and edibles for sale.  Our volunteers have been taking cuttings from plants around the site and the palm house so you can grow them at home. There are also herbs and seasonal fruits and vegetables.

Come and join us for a fresh locally sourced meal. Zero-waste, pay what you can afford and open to everyone.

Cactus and palm houses are open for visitors. 

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VOLUNTEER WITH US!

Food and horticulture volunteering opportunities at Wolves Lane provide you with the chance to spend time with nature, have fun, get active, share your knowledge and meet new people.

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Tree work

To make way for the new buildings on site, we have to remove some trees that will compromise the foundations of the new buildings. The majority of the trees we’ll be felling are leylandii around the border of the site. These are not considered high quality trees, and have been planted very close to each other, so they need thinning out. We will remove one-third of these leylandii, which will aid more light penetration and visibility into the site and growing areas, as well as making space for the new buildings. Rest assured we will do this work before nesting season so breeding is not disrupted. All the timber we fell will be reused in the build or on site, including structural posts for the building and garden furniture, as well as mulching with woodchip.

See the chart elbow for details of the trees that will be going, marked in red.

Emergency COVID response at Wolves Lane

We’re responding the increased food insecurity brought on by the pandemic in two ways:

COVID-19 Meal project

We’ve adapted our community kitchen project to produce free meals for those hardest hit by the pandemic. Every week our volunteer chefs and food preppers are producing nutritious meals from surplus food, which are currently being distributed to the Selby Food Hub and Homes For Haringey.

This project is managed by Crop Drop and funded by the National Lottery Community Fund, Haringey Giving and Crop Drop customer donations. This project is also made possible by the surplus food donations from the Felix Project.

Food production

We have increased our food production at Wolves Lane to assist with the emergency food effort in Haringey. The additional produce will be donated, used for the COVID-19 Meal project and sold at a considerable discount to the community to support some of the most vulnerable residents in Haringey.   

As part of our Food for All project, we have been growing produce to support the community during the pandemic. We’ve been delivering to local schools, senior homes, local elderly and vulnerable residents in Haringey, Lordship Hub and many more.

This is currently funded by the London Community Response Fund.

Whilst we have our own emergency food distribution at Wolves Lane, there are neighbouring boroughs who are also contributing to this essential work.

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Rootz into Food Growing

Wolves Lane Centre was a council-run site that combined plant nursery operations and garden centre with community and schools education and volunteering. Haringey Council have been running the site since 2009, but Government cuts to their budgets led to a reduction in funding. As a result, it was agreed that a third party would be best placed to utilise the site and maintain it as a community asset.

We formed a coalition with a shared vision to transform Wolves Lane into a community food hub and to preserve the extensive rare urban glasshouse infrastructure. The Wolves Lane Consortium was officially established in May 2019.

 

The Wolves Lane Consortium

OrganicLea offering support from experience of running a community enterprise in food growing and training at Hawkwood Nursery.

The Ubele Initiative is an African Diaspora led intergenerational social enterprise founded in 2014, with the purpose of helping to build more sustainable communities across the UK. They support a wide range of communities, community-based organisations and groups with their community assets through social action, community enterprise development and next-generation leadership initiatives.

Wolves Lane Flower Company are part of a new wave of farmer/florists committed to offering ethical, beautiful flowers while spreading the word about seasonality. They grow beautiful seasonal flowers for weddings, events and local delivery,  with the environment at the forefront of their minds, using no-dig organic techniques.

Ottolenghi staff grows produce that provides part of their monthly veggie supply. 

Black Rootz 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.

Friends of Wolves Lane is a group of volunteers and local residents. All welcome.

Our partners

Shared Assets, a ‘think and do tank’ which is researching and promoting good models of public land management.

LION, a Black-led, grassroots collective committed to reparative justice in Britain by securing land for BPOC (Black people and People of Colour) communities.

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Want to get involved in gardening, natural food growing or any other activity happening at our Centre?

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