Streatham Hill based Community Interest Company Social Landscapes are running a series of workshops this Autumn, starting with a 2-hour Orchard Care and Maintenance session with the Open Orchard Project in Hillside Gardens Park, the a 2-day Introduction to Permaculture the last weekend of September and three 2-hour gardening sessions at Bandstand Beds on Clapham Common in October and November.
Click the links below or visit the webpage for more information.

Orchard Care & Maintenance
- Saturday, September 10, 2016
- 2:00pm 4:00pm
- Hillside Gardens Park
Come join the Open Orchard and Social Landscapes for a session on Orchard Care and Maintenance in Hillside Gardens Park.
Some trees need summer pruning, others need mulching; we will plant russian comfrey around them to help build healthy soil and reduce the cages of larger trees to free up the crown.

Tread Well On Earth – A 2-Day Introduction To Permaculture
- Sat, Sep 24, 20169:30am Sun, Sep 25, 20165:00am
- Treadwell
Learn the basics of Permaculture Design on this two-day introduction workshop and be ready to try it out in your garden, your workplace and your life.

Natural Pest Control
- Saturday, October 15, 2016
- 10:30am 12:30pm
- Bandstand Beds
This two-hour session will make you familiar with common garden pests such as slugs, aphids, blight and pigeons. We’ll be looking at practical tools and strategies to overcome these unwanted visitors, and implementing some tried and tested techniques to help prevent them.

Growing Winter Vegetables
- Saturday, November 5, 2016
- 10:30am 12:30pm
- Bandstand beds
The workshop will explore what type of vegetables are suitable to grow late in the year, which ones can be planted from seed and which ones as young plants. In a practical exercise we will prepare the ground, sow and plant and plan how we will need to care for them as they become established.

Soil & Compost
- Saturday, November 19, 2016
- 10:30am 12:30pm
- Bandstand Beds
We will examine what the components of good soil are, how we can keep it healthy for producing food and flowers and how to improve it using different composting methods. We’ll explore techniques that are applicable on different scales, from our community garden to containers of pots on a balcony.