Neighbours – come and say hi over a cuppa and a piece of boat-home-made cake!

Residents have now moved into to the first completed blocks around the basin – Downham Wharf, at the north east side of the basin, and Commercial Wharf and Canal Wharf off Kingsland Road. To welcome our new neighbours and give old & new residents a chance to meet, CHUG is holding an informal Residents’ Tea Party at the moorings: Please join us on Sunday 16 September from 3 to 5pm!

EDIBLE GREEN CORNERS – The Floating Allotment, Kingsland Basin, Hackney – Courtesy of Edible GreenCorners Website

A community of 14 Hackney boat dwellers has turned one of the old boats into a floating allotment on which herbs, perennials and annuals grow. The boat is a cornucopia of rosemary, basil, Thai sage, chives and mint, strawberries, artichokes, lettuces, tomatoes, squash, beetroot and much more. The produce is shared between the households involved and when there’s a particularly bumper crop, it’s left in a common area so people can help themselves. Here Valerie Easty, Tim Storey and Marnie Collins are congraulated by Susan Hampshire.

http://www.conservationfoundation.co.uk/award_info.php?id=14

Hackney floating allotments win green award