On the 22nd September 2024, we welcome you to the Open House Festival 2024 at Wolves Lane Horticulture Centre ! Join us for a captivating exploration of urban food production and sustainable living. Discover our unique blend of historic glasshouse structures from the 1970s alongside our new cutting-edge sustainable buildings designed by Studio Gil and Material Cultures. Tour and experience the beauty and purpose of Wolves Lane.
As an urban food sustainability hub and pursuing ambitions to contribute to London being a market garden city, Wolves Lane offers a blend of new, soon-to-open cutting-edge sustainable buildings designed by Studio Gil and Material Cultures, alongside our historic glasshouse structures from the 1970s.
Originally run by Haringey Council as a plant nursery, producing various plants for the borough, and including an impressive Palm House and Cacti House, since May 2019 it has been led and managed by Wolves Lane Consortium - the co-stewards of which are Organic Lea and The Ubele Initiative CIC
The Wolves Lane Consortium has a shared vision to create new and expanded opportunities for local communities to engage in sustainable food growing, food distribution, healthy eating and cooking, and nature connection through volunteering, training, employment, and enterprise. Also, and in partnership with London's GLA and Haringey Council, and with the support of the National Lottery, Oak Foundation and the Clothworkers Foundation, the goal is to contribute to making London a market garden city.
The Centre is proud to host and to support the growth of Black Rootz, the UK's first multigenerational Black-led growing initiative. This initiative fosters knowledge exchange between seasoned growers and younger generations, nurturing a vital connection to our natural surroundings and providing much-needed respite within an urban setting.
For more information about Wolves Lane Centre Consortium co-managing stewards Organic Lea and Ubele CIC see www.organiclea.org.uk and www.ubele.org
