Permablitzes in 2025
No 139 Northwick Park Community Garden pruning fruit trees • 15th February 2025
No 140 Cecil Sharp House fruit tree pruning • 8th March 2025
No 141 Allotment Permablitz • 3rd May 2025
No 142 Narrowboat planter permablitz to make planters out of recycled pallets • 10th May 2025
No 143 Kentish Town City Farm • 25th May 2025
Permablitzes in 2024
No 131 Permablitz at Wellesley Road Care Home • 16th March 2024
No 132 Permablitz at Battersea Arts Centre • 7th April 2024
No 133 Permablitz at Cecil Sharp House • 27th April 2024
No 134 Permablitz at London’s Community Kitchen • 11th May 2024
No 135 Permablitz at Kentish Town City Farm • 19th May 2024
No 136 Permablitz to create an exemplar balcony at Kentish Town City Farm & planters for a narrowboat • 28th July 2024
No 137 Permablitz to improve the Kentish Town City Farm pond and wildlife area • 8th September 2024
No 138 Permablitz to prepare the Kentish Town City Farm garden for winter • 24th November 2024
Permablitzes in 2023
No 115 Permablitz at Battersea Arts Centre • 19th February 2023 We added more plants to the planters and installed some soaker hose irrigation. We also planted some hardy annual seeds.
No 116 Permablitz at St Mary’s Church • Saturday 25th February 2023 This permablitz launched a community garden in St Mary’s church grounds. We cleared the ground and laid down a lasagne mulch to improve the soil and planted some fruit trees and fruit bushes. People learnt about lasagne mulching, winter tree care and planting bare-rooted fruit trees and bushes.
No 117 Permablitz at St Pancras Community Centre • Saturday 18th March 2023 This permablitz was part of an initiative from Kentish Town City Farm to establish six new green and edible spaces in Camden. The spaces have had permaculture designs prepared by trainees on the Growing Food and Community and Permaculture Design Certificate traineeship delivered by Permablitz London in partnership with Kentish Town City Farm. This permablitz was to install a community garden at St Pancras Community Centre and we constructed raised beds with wicking water reservoirs and planted them up, adding micro-organisms and earthworms. We also cleared some of the existing beds and planted fruit trees, shrubs and perennials.
No 118 Permablitz at Kentish Town City Farm • Saturday 25th March 2023 This permablitz prepared the community garden for spring and summer: planting seeds, mulching, pruning currant bushes and fruit trees and installing rainwater collection on the shed. We also started building a new hutch for the quails at the farm. In the afternoon there was a workshop about keeping chickens and quails.
No 119 Permablitz at London’s Community Kitchen • Friday 28th April 2023 At this permablitz we prepared the garden for growing, planting seeds and preparing the soil. We made nettle tea to feed the plants.
No 120 Permablitz at Kentish Town City Farm • Monday 1st May 2023 We joined Kentish Town City Farm’s May Day event and planted seeds and prepared soil for the summer planting.
No 121 Permablitz at Abbey Community Centre • Friday 9th June 2023 This permablitz was part of an initiative from Kentish Town City Farm to establish six new green and edible spaces in Camden. The spaces have had permaculture designs prepared by trainees on the Growing Food and Community and Permaculture Design Certificate traineeship delivered by Permablitz London in partnership with Kentish Town City Farm. This permablitz was to install a community garden at Abbey Community Centre and we constructed raised beds from recycled pallet collars. We added wicking water reservoirs and planted them up. We also added other edible plants throughout the garden.
No 122 Permablitz at Kentish Town City Farm • Saturday 10th June 2023 At this permablitz we planted out the summer veg plants including corn, beans, squash, courgette, cucumber, peas, tomatoes, cabbage and flowers.
No 123 Permablitz at Cecil Sharp House • Saturday 24th June 2023 We gathered to prepare the garden at Cecil Sharp House for the London Permaculture Festival. We planted new unusual edible perennials, mulched and made new labels for plants.
No 124 Permablitz at Kentish Town City Farm • Saturday 15th July 2023 We installed a garden donated from the Hampton Court Flower Festival: A Feast for the Senses, designed by Deborah Anderson, Lauren Munton and John Tolman. The flowering edible/medicinal plants created a colourful impact throughout the community garden and will provide nectar and pollen for insects.
No 125 Permablitz at Battersea Arts Centre • Saturday 14th October 2023 At this permablitz we prepared the garden for winter by cutting back some of the perennials and annuals and used the stems to create spaces for insects to hibernate. We also mulched the soil and planted lots of bulbs for colour and nectar/pollen for insects.
No 126 Permablitzes at Calthorpe Community Centre • Wednesday 18th and 25th October 2023 This permablitz was part of an initiative from Kentish Town City Farm to establish six new green and edible spaces in Camden. The spaces have had permaculture designs prepared by trainees on the Growing Food and Community and Permaculture Design Certificate traineeship delivered by Permablitz London in partnership with Kentish Town City Farm. This permablitz was to install a section of the community garden at Calthorpe Community Garden. We added attractive, diverse plants at the entrance to provide an educative space demonstrating unusual edible perennials and wildlife-friendly planting.
No 127 Permablitz at Wellesley Road Care Home • Saturday 28th October 2023 This permablitz was part of an initiative from Kentish Town City Farm to establish six new green and edible spaces in Camden. The spaces have had permaculture designs prepared by trainees on the Growing Food and Community and Permaculture Design Certificate traineeship delivered by Permablitz London in partnership with Kentish Town City Farm. At this permablitz we installed a decorative, sensory, wildlife-friendly garden for the care home’s elderly residents, many of whom have Alzheimer’s or other forms of dementia. As well as introducing strong colours through paint we planted over 1,000 bulbs and scented climbers and shrubs.
No 128 Permablitz at Kentish Town City Farm • Saturday 11th November 2023 With the growing season over this permablitz prepared the garden for winter by removing couch grass and mulching with cardboard and manure. We also planted field beans, a green manure to support the soil creatures over winter.
No 129 Permablitz at Morley College Dye Garden • Tuesday 14th November 2023 At this mini-permablitz we dug up the dahlia tubers for the winter, mulched the beds with cardboard and compost and planted forage pea seeds to cover the soil.
No 130 Permablitz at Cecil Sharp House • Saturday 2nd December 2023 We kept ourselves active on this very cold day collecting leaves for leaf mould from around the garden. We also cut back perennials and took cuttings.
Permablitzes in 2022
No 100 Permablitz at Susannah’s Allotment • 30th January 2022 This permablitz extended the collection of rainwater from the shed, built new compost bays and a new storage unit. We also cleared and planted green manures.
No 101 Permablitz at Battersea Arts Centre • 26th February 2022 On this permablitz we planted bare-rooted fruit trees for the community garden.
No 102 Permablitz at Hackney Herbal • 28th March 2022 On this permablitz we re-located the greenhouse into a sunnier position and set it up on a base of paving slabs. We also be built compost bays out of recycled pallets.
No 103 Permablitz at Josiah Braithwaite Community Garden • 10th April 2022 On this permablitz we worked together to create new wicking planters for the garden made out of recycled pallets.
No 104 Permablitz at Cecil Sharp House • 23rd April 2022 This permablitz prepared the garden for the summer. We planted seeds, potting on seedlings, created signage, built a wicking planter, and applied aerated compost and nettle teas.
No 105 Permablitz at Battersea Arts Centre • 8th May 2022 We created a bee and butterfly haven for the summer. We added summer flowering plants and created bee hotels. We will also be planted seeds for salads and vegetables.
No 106 Permablitz at Morley College • 21st May 2022 We re-established the dye garden out of raised beds made from recycled scaffolding boards and containing wicking reservoirs. We planted them with a mixture of natural dye plants according to a permaculture design.
No 107 Permablitz at Kentish Town City Farm • 28th May 2022 We established a permaculture community garden after the Covid pandemic. The garden provides an outdoor classroom for a newly established community gardening traineeship as well as a growing space for local people.
No 108 Permablitz at Kentish Town City Farm • 12th June 2022 We set up compost systems to integrate the City Farm’s manure with kitchen scraps, recycled ‘browns’ and organic matter from the garden. We also planted a mixed annual/perennial polyculture to provide food for both the community and wildlife.
No 109 Permablitz at Cecil Sharp House • 17th July 2022 This permablitz prepared the Cecil Sharp House garden for the London Permaculture Festival. We added more unusual edible perennials to the garden and improved the irrigation systems.
No 110 Permablitz at Battersea Arts Centre • 21st August 2022 We planted some late summer plants, more unusual edible perennials in the community garden and autumn salad plants from seed. We also created earthworms habitats and added more earthworms to the planters.
No 111 Permablitz at Kentish Town City Farm • 17th September 2022 This was a harvest celebration permablitz at Kentish Town City Farm. As well as having a celebration lunch using produce from the garden we set up a rainwater harvesting system, planted green manures and animal forage, set up a hotbin compost system, and planted autumn salads.
No 112 Permablitz at Battersea Arts Centre • 9th October 2022 We continued the planting of the garden as well as prepared the garden for winter.
No 113 Permablitz at London’s Community Kitchen • 13th November 2022 This permablitz established the permaculture model garden at London’s Community Kitchen in Harrow. Sixty five people from across London and as far afield as Glastonbury gathered to prepare the soil for winter, create a herb spiral, build a chicken run and coup, create a trellis arch, build raised wheelchair accessible wicking beds, paint the fence, benches and chairs and plant fruit trees with supporting plant communities.
No 114 Permablitz at Battersea Arts Centre • 4th December 2022 This permablitz at Battersea Arts Centre finished preparing the garden for winter. We added mulches to feed and protect the soil.