London Permaculture Festival

Come along for 20 workshops and demonstrations, a stalls market, a pop-up unusual edible perennials plant stall and a ‘families at the festival’ zone. Enjoy discussions, networking and learning about creative solutions for a sustainable, healthy future.

Tickets: £20 (includes access to all the workshops)
£10 concessions tickets available only on the door • U18s free

Workshops 2025 – click here for a full list

Unriddling the World – Hugh Lupton

Growing a New Garden: Ecological tips and techniques for creating balance – Becky Searle

How to Fall in Love with the Future: A Time Traveller’s Guide to Changing the World – Rob Hopkins

The Accidental Seed Heroes – growing a delicious food future for us all – Adam Alexander

Transforming our cities with permaculture – Andy Goldring

Introduction to Permaculture – Rishil Parekh

An Introduction to Permaculture – Cultivating a Thriving Future – Rakesh Rootsman Rak

Introduction to Permaculture – Matt Phillpott

Living the Good Life in the City – Sara Ward

The Ecology of Compost – Julian Doberski

Grow South Asian Vegetables in the UK – Hina Joshi and Niru Patel

Celebrating ten years of Hackney Herbal – Nat Mady

Grow Your Own Wardrobe: Colour and Cloth – Allan Brown & Zoë Burt

Tiny House Living – how to design, self-build and live in a nomadic regenerative tiny home? – Ed Dale-Harris

Maximising tiny space growing – Susannah Hall

Keeping Bees in your Garden – Sara Ward

Unusual edible perennials: top forest garden plants – Eleri Kyffin

The Power of Permaculture Principles – Wilf Richards

Simple home retrofits to reduce waste and save money – Hugh Livingstone

Families at the Festival

Join us at Families at the Festival. Explore the garden at Cecil Sharp House with your children, collating a treasure box and joining a garden trail to explore the community garden using all your senses. We will also help you explore the stalls market with an exciting scavenger trail where you children can collect ‘treasures’ from some of the stalls. In the garden, you can enjoy crafts and storytelling with your children, making your day at the Permaculture Festival a fun experience for every member of the family.

Activities will include:

• Making and decorating a treasure box
• A garden trail to explore the garden
• Meet the chickens and quails
• A scavenger trail to explore the stalls market
• Storytelling
• Natural painting
• Mini-beasts to explore
• Clay medallion modelling
• Pixel art

Dog policy

Assistance dogs only allowed.

Get involved…

Volunteers

We rely on 50-plus volunteers to put on the festival each year. We have 6 teams you can get involved with: programming, stalls, publicity, cake stall, families at the festival and the crew on the day.