Town Grown

06/06/2026

06/06/2026

Awww 🥰 what a lovely summer evening at the Alexandra Park Greenhouse Group we had, for our Edible Open Gardens launch party!

First a gardeners network meeting to give out site signs and brochures, plus meet and chat over a cuppa. It’s really lovely to see people making connections - sometimes with their smallholding neighbours, or people with similar enterprises or plant 🪴 passions.

Following this gathering was the launch party itself.. Hastings Project lager, beautiful local wine made by Philip Harris, a summer cocktail 🍸 all whilst wandering around the wonderful space of the greenhouse!

It’s an incredible venue and we are proud to have them as one of our 27 gardens to visit at the end of June…

If you’d like to read about all of the other venues and plan your visits - look out for this year’s garden guide at key local locations- but mainly at Wonderfill on kings road, St Leonards.

Oh and we raffled off some free tickets to Great Dixter House and Gardens thanks to our wonderful supporter- Fergus Garrett.

This year we are running a small photo competition and still have tickets for prizes…Do look 👀 out for more details in the coming few weeks on how to take part!

Lots of the event information is also on our website and you can sign up anytime to join our email list.

www.towngrown.co.uk

04/06/2026

Summer drinks in a fabulous local venue!
Tomorrow evening..
Raffling tickets to Great Dixter on the night..
Local wine and beer while stocks last 🙏✨❤️

04/06/2026

Come and pick up a wonderful event brochure and enter our raffle to win some free tickets to an exceptional local garden - Great Dixter House and Gardens.

We will give everyone a raffle ticket on arrival, at the launch party and announce the draw on the night.

A limited amount of locally produced drinks will be available - wine from Philip Harris (whose vineyard you can visit on Sat 27th) and beer from The Hastings Project - one of our local sustainability partners. Plus us girls at Town Grown are making a flowery summer cocktail 🍸 … what a lovely venue for summer drinks!

We are so lucky 🍀 to have so many inspirational venues to fire up our food growing - maybe in different directions - based on what others are doing. The Edible Open Garden event is all about sharing ideas and practices and it is amazing what happens by the simple act of wandering around someone else’s food growing garden!

This Friday!

Join us in the beautifully restored Alexandra Park Greenhouse for a get-together to launch Edible Open Gardens ‘26.

Brochures with timings and details of all 27 participating farms and gardens will be available to pick up on the evening. Stay for a seasonal drink and a chance to meet some of the growers in this stunning heritage space.

Alexandra Park Greenhouse
Friday 5th June, 6:30pm

01/06/2026

This Friday!

Join us in the beautifully restored Alexandra Park Greenhouse for a get-together to launch Edible Open Gardens ‘26.

Brochures with timings and details of all 27 participating farms and gardens will be available to pick up on the evening. Stay for a seasonal drink and a chance to meet some of the growers in this stunning heritage space.

Alexandra Park Greenhouse
Friday 5th June, 6:30pm

27/05/2026

News Just in:

As well as having some lovely summer drinks we will be raffling free tickets to our local treasure - Great Dixter House and Gardens. So come along and pick up this year's event brochure and maybe win a ticket!

This years event is even bigger than last time, with some new gardens and also a coach trip to some of our local smallholdings further a field. Things will be hotting up for the launch party and event so do stay tuned ...

Also please share with your friends and let them know that Saturday 27th & Sunday 28th of June will have plenty of lovely, inspiring food growing gardens for us all to visit.....

08/05/2026

Hey everyone!

Something to think about over the weekend.
Would you like YOUR garden to be part of this year’s Edible Open Garden event?

Does a friend or family member have an interesting food growing garden to share?

Follow link to fill in form or read more about the event.

Edible Open Gardens is back for 2026, across Hastings, St Leonards and surrounding areas. Over the weekend of 27th-28th June, smallholders, back gardeners, allotmenteers and windowbox growers are invited to open their space to share the joy of growing food.

08/05/2026

We are the lead story in the latest addition of Permaculture Magazine- see below!

02/05/2026

It's back - with some new and exciting gardens on the horizon!

If you know someone or are someone that grows your own food in an inspiring way - there is still time to take part: Just fill in the form on our website, before May15th and we will be in touch:

https://towngrown.co.uk/edible-open-gardens-2026/