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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