Cultivate Create
North Kensington
Since 2022
Cultivate Create is a new creative growing project for North Kensington families with a focus on wellbeing and emotional resilience. It provides a safe, non-judgmental space for families in which to be creative and connect to nature.
Since April 2022 families in North Kensington have been working with creative gardeners Romany Taylor and Mattie O’Callaghan to cultivate an edible garden and nurture the bio-diversity of ACAVA’s Maxilla Walk Studios yard and the adjoining Maxilla Forest School Garden.
November 2022 – March 2023
Families will continue to work with artist gardeners Romany Taylor and Mattie O’Callaghan over the winter months to grow winter vegetables, prepare the soil for spring, record and enhance seasonal biodiversity and build on the continued improvement of both the Maxilla yard and Forest School garden through creative making sessions.
April – October 2022
The participants worked with creative gardeners Gal Leshem, Mattie O’Callaghan and Romany Taylor to create raised beds, sow, plant and nurture an edible garden and the bio-diversity of ACAVA’s Maxilla Walk Studios yard and the adjoining Maxilla Forest School Garden. In the second half of the season, the group harvested, cooked, and ate edible produce together with the wider North Kensington community.
Cultivate Create is a partnership with the NHS North Kensington Healthier Futures with support from Ernst & Young.
Would you like to take part in this programme?
Programme partners
Cultivate Create open day: nature and art conversation and workshops
Join us on Saturday 11 March for a day exploring gardening and creativity with workshops and a talk with Errol Fernandes, Mattie O’Callaghan and Romany Taylor.
Cultivate Create winter sessions – Join today!
Join us over the winter months to prepare the soil for spring, grow winter vegetables, explore and improve seasonal biodiversity and build on previous work done to the Maxilla Walk Studios yard and Forest School garden, through creative-making sessions.
