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Growing to love your locality! Seears Park Nursery, Community gardens & tearoom, kids parties

06/06/2026

One day left - Family fun workshop- book your place here…

🍄🌿 Family Fun in the Garden This Sunday! 🌿🍄

Join us for a relaxed and inspiring family day where we’ll be:

🍄 Learning how to grow your own mushrooms
🧘 Stretching, relaxing and connecting with nature
🥗 Tasting delicious plant-based food
🌱 Exploring how food can be good for us and the planet

Why are we always banging on about mushrooms? Because they’re incredible! Mushrooms are not only nutritious and delicious, they’re helping shape the future of sustainable food, fashion, packaging, and even building materials. They can grow on waste products, require very few resources, and offer exciting alternatives to animal-based products.

The more we learn about fungi, the more we realise they might be one of nature’s greatest solutions for a healthier and more sustainable future. 🍄💚

For a fascinating read, check out this article from Plant Based News.

Come and get your hands dirty, stretch your body, feed your belly, and discover the amazing world of mushrooms with us!

LED by The Green Nut and partners

Booking link here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/nature-nourishment-mushroom-growing-family-day-tickets-1986546013603?utm_experiment=test_share_listing&aff=ebdsshios&sg=b20825307eec43639e36c768bdbb4b8c5f23dd8cd9d9287c6585dde5457eec641f2c159c59452d337a2f0fc16fc8cc4f7f06bfbc81ff6e513c8d2b909ab74dd58a161d40e57c9c1c8f0096af5ef6&fbclid=IwVERDUASRGBxleHRuA2FlbQIxMABzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAo2NjI4NTY4Mzc5AAEe2k1UQ8g2Et6gdRkeIkluUVujJiRNwHSvRCFbsNdz0KFiqZlnP3MLKZ47wnM_aem_x_KMCYroOKd0RFYIXkA0wQ

GrowYourOwn SustainableLiving YourSpaceSutton TheGreenNut 🍄🌱💚

03/06/2026

Save the date - Yourspace Summer Fair & fundraising weekend event.

Sat & Sun 20th/21st June 11-5pm

Come and join in with a wide range of fun and family friendly activities and entertainment.

As well as the usual annual fun this event is also a fundraiser and there will be a wide range of ways you can support us.

We are excited about some of the local businesses and organisations that are going to be particpating in support and will post a detailed breakdown soon.

In the meantime if anyone is interested in sponsoring the fair event please do get in touch.

If any local businesses would like to donate prizes to our raffle, and games challenges etc, they will be most gratefully received.

We are also looking for donations for our bottle tombola and for our sweet/choc tombola too and so any bottles of wine or sparkly etc will be much appreciated.

Put the dates in your diary please, and come out and support us. Look out for event news here

Oh and p;ease share far and wide - thank you!

31/05/2026

Creating a kitchen garden in a community garden can only be done one way; with the help of the wider community!

It’s great to see at long last, the signs of things growing in our new raised veggie and herb beds in the new kitchen garden plot at Yourspace, but nothing is better than knowing how we have gone about in its creating.

It is easy to think of a community garden space as a space that has been created for the benefit of the community to use and access, but much harder to create a garden with the sole help of the community itself, and for that space to reflect as many parts of the community as possible, but that is exactly what we are most proud of at Yourspace.sutton.

It’s not just everything we have growing, but the growing amount of people who join in and share in the help of what we are slowly creating!

As with all good things, the kitchen garden at Yourspace will service other existing community projects alongside it, such as the Wellness Wednesday Wellbeing Cafe in collaboration with The Green Nut who teamed up with the four year old preschoolers from Homefield Preparatory School to get the first of the herbs planted, and to fill up the bed themselves with soil as seen in the pictures.

Some Duke of Edinburgh teenage participants have helped in the construction of some of these raised metal planters as part of their time volunteering for their Silver Award, and the Sutton Hong Kong Church community have worked on every stage of this project too from the beginning.

Our weekly and day to day volunteers have helped mesh it all together with a series of ongoing joining up tasks and they have involved construction, land levelling and landscaping, soil and organic waste introduction, filling and planting, and even the seed sowing and growing on of some of the vegetables here now growing, and where some of our seed sowing efforts let us down, we give thanks to the generousity of another wonderful volunteer who has provided us with much of the vegetable plants seen here growing.

It’s been a wonderful cross collaboration of so many parts of our local community, and in truth the space has only just got going, and I am a passionate believer that what we are growing is much more special than anything any one individual will eventually ever come to harvest - and that is the real secret to the essence of ‘growing’!

25/05/2026

We are open today until 5pm or until I get everything watered!!

That means our delicious homemade cake is here available with it!

Happy Bank holiday everyone

24/05/2026

Thank You to the RHS for inviting us as their winners of the Britain in Bloom RHS Best Community Engagement Award, to an after hours dinner event at Chelsea combined with free tickets to the Chelsea Flower Show.

Volunteer coordinator Jenny and myself were delighted to spend the day on Thursday perusing all the show gardens and spotting who we knew among all the plants that we love or left aspiring to.
I wrote a full visit experience review the last time I came two years ago (link at the bottom of this post for anyone interested) so I am not going to retread the themes I explored last time though it is very interesting to see some of those similar themes now appearing in the media this week, but when you’re an established event of this size, you are always going to also be some people’s target.

As the annual Flower show goes, I’ve only experienced it twice but I always love the extensive BBC coverage and it makes for one of my favourite weeks of the year because it also times nicely with my own many aspirations of what I am doing in the garden.

To be honest there is so much to see around the grounds of the flower show that it is all a bit overwhelming and you can’t quite take it all in as much as you would dearly love to, but the one thing you can’t deny is how truly wonderful it is to have all this in one place together to access.

If I had to be picky, I thought the main show gardens were a little less inspiring than two years ago, but then nothing really ever beats the first time, but this year it was great to go with a fellow Yourspace colleague as it meant we were able to share our opinions and ideas on the bits we thought we could implement or try to mimic at Yourspace, or just pine over the plants we wish we could establish there.

Of course each of the gardens were crammed full of planting, and with the gardens only needing to exist their for a week, they had no need to space out the planting for long term development such as we do knowing the plants will double in size later.
The place was heaving with people, but as part of our lovely invitation package, we were also given access to the show gardens after hours when everyone else had gone home, and so we got to see each of the gardens twice, once with the crowds and once as the daylight was fading.

One of the surprises of the day was to have an RHS volunteer at the King’s garden saying ‘hello Kevin’ looking at me grinning while I struggled to place where I knew her face from, only to have her remind me she was Bridgette and used to volunteer for me at Yourspace a few years back. It suddenly came all back and to which we then had a photo taken together in front of the rest of the crowd which then caused some unexpected confusion.

A man standing behind me asked if I would be willing to pose in a photo with his elderly mother, which I misheard and offered to take the photo of the two of them, but he said no, she wanted to have one with me!
I asked why me as I’m no-one, but he said ‘you aren’t no one we watch you on TV all the time!’ to which I did not know how to respond except for to pose for the photo.
Jenny and I spent a good while laughing about the disappointment they would eventually feel when they showed their friends who they had claimed to have had a photo with!
I can’t imagine who they thought I was!

One of my favourite displays was the artist of driftwood sculpted wildlife which was stunning just as it was two years ago! Likewise having come on public transport I couldn’t really indulge in the buying of many plants except for the one; a red stemmed Hosta that had been declared as plant of the year.

Anyway it was a lovely experience all in all and a rare break away from our usual responsibilities at Yourspace.sutton and it was a real pleasure to spend it at the pinnacle of all things gardening thanks to the wonderful kind courtesyu of the RHS and I just want to say a big thank you!

My review from 2024 here: https://www.facebook.com/share/1J6xdmuBaN/?mibextid=wwXIfr

24/05/2026

It’s been maybe 40 years since the old toilet shelter at Seears Park was consigned to history, but the outline of where it existed has resurfaced in this period of prolonged hot and dry weather.
Have you noticed the reemergence of the outline?

20/05/2026

Walking the ‘Wish-teria’ Way

The road in each life takes many twists and turns and no matter how many wishes we constantly make on the way, we never really get to a point in the road when we realise if they have come true.

Somehow a wish is always something up ahead of you, and all you have now is only something you are currently navigating unaware that today’s wishes are just going to be replaced by tomorrow’s new ones!

Yet how many times have we made the same wish over and over, almost like we didn’t really believe that the last time counted for anything, or fearing that maybe so far your wish has not been heard, or perhaps all the times before weren’t real wish opportunities and so you better make sure of it this time.
Sometimes I wonder if I am just wasting so many new wish opportunities on repeating the old ones just because perhaps they haven’t come true yet, unaware of how long it takes for a wish to be granted, and let’s face it, if our wishes were granted as fast as we’d like, we wouldn’t really be wishing for them much in the first place.
A wish is borne out of something we think is unlikely or something that we long for because we can’t bear the thought of something different, or because without the whispered hope that we throw out to the wind, our plight or quest for what we seek might feel almost hopeless.

How many times did I make the same wish that was already on order, and just waste all the new things I could have wished for in addition, and how many times just in doing so did I struggle to select what I should wish, torn between something desperately selfish or something I feared for, and is there any difference in a wish and something I prayed for?

Walking each step on every way, whether it is towards or away from each something new, is propelled by things you silently wish for, be they spoken or quietly awoken as a seed, a rainbow, a shooting star or where you threw a coin in a well as a token.
Sometimes just as much, I have considered making a wish and then not even spoken, with words, or thoughts did my lips move nor my mind probe my deepest desires and awoken.
How many wishes have I counted as having come true, though no doubt if I set out to do they might number in the thousands, and as many as that’s true, why do we all pine for a wish to come true like we have never tasted the experience before it, just the ache of our new need of tomorrow, but not the immediate tomorrow that follows today because those wishes don’t count quite as high as the ones that we know might take much longer to realise that they were actually one day granted

How long must I walk each way, waiting for each wish to finally bloom before I stop and smell the sweet aroma of what has flourished? How many times must a I wish for each such bloom only to ignore the bloom completely and to reach instead for the seeds that each wish set, so that I could scatter them far into the wind with things in my heart I had hoped but only in silence ever spoken.

What is in each wish that came true, and what if only our hearts truly knew?
Oh to walk down each Wish-teria way and to inhale of each bloom, the seeds that I wished to the wind long ago of a time before I even knew and then still went on and blew it!

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Seears Park/St Dunstans Hill Entrance To Access Rd Off A217 Opposite Love Lane
London
SM12LR

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Tuesday	10am - 5pm
Thursday	10am - 5pm
Friday	10am - 5pm
Saturday	10:30am - 5pm

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http://www.yourspacesutton.org/

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