
Grow Together Grow Wild
A series of mini nature festivals focusing on developing a neglected area which will bring nature and people together. We will create wildlife habitats, plant wildflower meadows and grow fungi.
Visitor Information
The Clitterhouse Farm Project is located in the Clitterhouse Playing Fields. The entrance to the park has a kissing gate which is located at the junction between Claremont Road and Clitterhouse Road South near to Claremont Primary School. As you walk in this entrance the Clitterhouse Farm Outbuildings are on the right. There is free on-street parking. We are 10minutes walk from Cricklewood Station. https://goo.gl/maps/KkhEMUiJ6rQ2
Get involved
We hold community volunteering sessions on Fridays from 9am to 11am and on Saturdays from 10am to 1pm. More volunteering opportunities will take place in the evenings during the week in the Summer months. For festivals and volunteer opportunities please visit our website on www.clitterhouse.com.
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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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Celebrate Nature event - Using the vegetables from our community garden to make food and natural products. | 28/09/2019 - 12:00 | 300 | Mixed ages |
Grow from Nature Event. Bringing the community together with workshops on growing fungi, making sourdough, growing indoors and lots more. | 15/06/2019 - 12:00 | 300 | Mixed ages |
Planting up the straw bales with Strawberries, beans, tomatoes has started. | 17/05/2019 - 11:00 | 20 | Mixed ages |
Secondary School Students help to water the straw bales with a nitrogen feed to help to start the process of decomposition. | 03/05/2019 - 11:00 | 15 | Mixed ages |
Straw bales were laid out ready for the straw bale vegetable growing experiment. | 29/04/2019 - 18:00 | 5 | Mixed ages |
Wildflowers for Nature Event - planted up the new area with wildflowers. | 27/04/2019 - 12:00 | 100 | Mixed ages |
Primary school pupils planted up some of the new wildlife area and made preparations for the Wildflowers for Nature Event. | 26/04/2019 - 11:00 | 40 | Mixed ages |
Removing the last of the matt of roots of bindweed and brambles in time for planting up the area with wildflowers. | 22/04/2019 - 10:00 | 26 | Mixed ages |
Turned over grass sods, digging up bramble roots and moving soil to prepare new area. | 30/03/2019 - 10:00 | 25 | Mixed ages |
School groups and community volunteers moved soil into the beds. | 29/03/2019 - 11:00 | 16 | Mixed ages |
Moved the woodchip with local students and community members to make the paths for our new wildlife area. | 22/03/2019 - 11:00 | 16 | Mixed ages |
We started making a willow dome and a willow arch. | 16/03/2019 - 10:00 | 30 | Mixed ages |
The community came together to design and map out the new child-friendly wildlife area. | 09/03/2019 - 10:00 | 8 | Mixed ages |
Barnet council scraped away most of the debris and the surface of the soil. | 03/03/2019 - 09:45 | 3 | Mixed ages |
Barnet Council cleared the rest of the site of rubble and debris. | 06/03/2019 - 10:00 | 5 | Mostly adults 25+ |
The community came together to design the new area considering something that was wildlife and child-friendly. | 09/03/2019 - 11:00 | 6 | Mixed ages |
We started to clear the scrubland. | 02/03/2019 - 12:00 | 7 | Mostly adults 25+ |