
GAIA Women's Tea Making Project
SOLA ARTS
Working with women from the Syrian and wider refugee community in Liverpool to utilise a green under-used space to develop a herbal tea making project incorporating wildflowers.
Visitor Information
Room 19
Toxteth Town Hall
15 High Park Street
Liverpool
Merseyside
L8 8DX
We are open Mondays - Fridays normally 9am-7pm with different public access times according to our projects. For more information please contact us via email or phone :-)
Get involved
Volunteering opportunities / Upcoming events
We welcome volunteers in a range of key areas to support our programmes, and who can commit for a minimum of 6 months. Feel free to make contact for more information.
Get in touch
Contact information
There are several ways to contact us;
email: [email protected] or [email protected]
phone: 0151 726 8440 / 07832232849
Photos of the site
What we've been up to
What we did | When we did it | How many people took part | Who was there |
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We painted sticks for woodland windchimes, we also went on a wildflower hunt and threw some wildflower seedbombs. | 29/05/2019 - 12:00 | 6 | Mixed ages |
It was a rainy day so we painted tiles with pictures of bugs and veg to go in the garden | 14/08/2019 - 12:00 | 7 | Mixed ages |
Making wildflower seedbombs at Princes Park Play Day, we used salt dough moulds the gardening group had made to make different shapes. | 07/08/2019 - 14:45 | 29 | Mixed ages |
Making wildflower seedbombs with visitors to Granby Market & talking about wildflowers. | 03/08/2019 - 17:00 | 32 | Mixed ages |
Painting tiles and pots for the garden. We also watered our seedlings and plants and looked for wildflowers. | 31/07/2019 - 12:00 | 5 | Mixed ages |
Painting tiles and pots for the garden. We also watered our seedlings and plants and looked for wildflowers. | 31/08/2019 - 12:00 | 5 | Mixed ages |
We thought about what5 basic equipment we need now that things are growing and we need to get planting our growing design in the garden. | 24/07/2019 - 12:00 | 2 | Mixed ages |
Only Adele today- looking at the mass of caterpillars that are munching away at wild flowers! | 17/07/2019 - 12:45 | 1 | Mixed ages |
1st session planting and making paper pots | 10/07/2019 - 12:15 | 7 | Mixed ages |
1st visit to a local garden centre to buy a few flowers, herbs and wildflower seeds to start our garden off! | 01/07/2019 - 12:15 | 6 | Mixed ages |
Chita chat and drawing plans for the garden | 26/06/2019 - 12:15 | 6 | Mixed ages |
Learning a whole heap of grammar around the tea making enterprise! | 19/06/2019 - 12:15 | 9 | Mixed ages |
Decisions, decsions, decisions...what to do over the coming months to get into the garden more and share more tea recipes | 12/06/2019 - 12:15 | 4 | Mixed ages |
Reflecting on our 2nd public tea sharing event and how to make use of even more wildflowers in our receipes! | 05/06/2019 - 12:15 | 8 | Mixed ages |
We had a flora based creative family play day with the children and painted twigs ready for keeping the plants safe :-) | 29/05/2019 - 12:15 | 6 | Mixed ages |
We explored chamomile, marigolds and berries that grow in the wild | 15/05/2019 - 12:15 | 6 | Mostly adults 25+ |
Adelex met Ben from Grow Wild & other grant holders and had some great conversations and learning around local flora and fungi :-D | 09/05/2019 - 11:00 | 11 | Mixed ages |
We thought about the language around sharing the teas and getting donations for the garden through this | 05/08/2019 - 12:00 | 8 | Mixed ages |
We explored language around different weather we experience in the garden and how it helps the growing | 05/01/2019 - 12:15 | 8 | Mixed ages |
We shared our tea samples at the Culture Liverpool Yolart event and had great conversations about growing and tea making :-) | 31/05/2019 - 17:00 | 40 | Mixed ages |
We met with Liverpool Yoga Centre and Culture Liverpool tto spread the word about our teas and explore more opportunities for the future! | 13/05/2019 - 12:15 | 6 | Mostly adults 25+ |
We learnt more language about growing and making teas. We thought more about what things we can grow in the garden for this | 28/04/2019 - 12:15 | 7 | Mostly adults 25+ |
Tested our teas and tried cutting the ingredients smaller. Then we explored our area in the garden and discussed future plans. | 22/05/2019 - 12:15 | 6 | Mixed ages |
We planned out where we want to build our raised beds and had a meeting about the next stages of the project. | 23/04/2019 - 12:00 | 4 | Mixed ages |
Today we had the Afternoon Herbal Tea Party and we had a great time! Sharing, making, exploring and enjoying together :-) Great team work :) | 17/04/2019 - 11:00 | 58 | Mixed ages |
We made more wildflower seed bomb moulds and then tested them with the seed bomb mixture using compost, clay wildflower seeds and water. | 10/04/2019 - 20:45 | 12 | Mixed ages |
We started to refine our herbal tea recipes, which herbs we can grow in the garden for this and key language for the 17th April event. | 03/04/2019 - 12:15 | 9 | Mostly adults 25+ |
We had lots of fun making salt dough moulds for wildflower bombs, we based them on the shapes of leaves and flowers. | 02/04/2019 - 12:00 | 6 | Mixed ages |
Working out the spices we can grow and the ones we can introduce to our teas. Thinking about language for flowers & herb conversation! | 27/03/2019 - 12:15 | 7 | Mostly adults 25+ |
Thinking about ethics around working with nature and making herbal teas. | 20/03/2019 - 12:00 | 4 | Mostly adults 25+ |
Tea making experimenting is fun- exploring tea mixes and finding flowers and herbs to grow in the coming months. | 13/03/2019 - 12:00 | 4 | Mostly adults 25+ |
1st session: Tea making language development session- having fun exploring language for the teas we will be growing and drinking! | 06/03/2019 - 12:00 | 6 | Mostly adults 25+ |
We made a list of plants and flowers we want to grow, then explored outside and made 'Sunprints' using leaves and flowers on special paper. | 26/03/2019 - 12:00 | 9 | Mixed ages |