Bring A Dish Harvest Party + Transition Kentish Town Nature Connections Autumn Hedgerows Walk

Come to our 'Bring A Dish Harvest Party' on Saturday 21st October 2023.

Hosted at Vegbox's home base, The Thanet community centre, we're inviting you all to an informal community lunch. Put on your autumn aprons and bring a dish to share! Be even more ambitious and bake a vegetable-based cake for our harvest cake competition. You know you want to win!

• Lunch: bring a veggie dish (label with any obvious allergens)
• Enter the cake competition: two categories - vegan cake and non-vegan cake (all cakes must contain veg)
• Children's activities: pumpkin decorating, pedal-powered smoothie making, apple pressing

Come and celebrate autumn with us!

Don't miss out on Transition Kentish Town - Nature Connections Autumn Hedgerows Walk

Times: 11am - 12.30pm

Meet: Entrance to Parliament Hill Fields/Hampstead Heath at the Highgate Road/ Swains Lane junction NW5.

Ends: At Overground Bridge Exit from the Heath onto Savenake Road, on SW face of Parliament Hill, beside playground and athletics and fitness tracks.

Walk & Nature immersion action leaders: pomme Edwards, Rita Drobner and Ian Grant ( all VB members)

All welcome to join us, but please book so we know numbers and who to expect. Some walking will be off path on uneven ground, so please wear suitable footwear.

What to expect:

- an informative, sociable, soulful and fun event for all
- with a guided walk around some of the magnificent hedgerows of Parliament Hill Fields, 
- gathering fallen leaves, twigs, berries on our way up to a big Beech & Oak glade up on the Hill ( a regular spot for our seasonal Nature immersion activities).
- together create a piece of community land art from our gathered Autumn debris - as our homage to the season. 
- and share our gratitude with the trees, for all they share with us over the seasons, and to the hedgerows: 'Nature's larder' and shelter for our non-human neighbours in the winter to come. 
- And - as the trees cast off the leaves around us and the hedgerows become bright with berries - spend some individual time among the trees to ask what we can learn from them, in our own lives and communities, about letting go of what's no longer needed - and safeguarding the 'Harvest' of what IS needed to weather challenging times in good spirit?