Oaklands Mobile Sensory Herb Garden

The Mobile Allotment is now based at Oaklands School in Bethnal Green where it is being stripped down and renovated by Lisa. Pupils at the school have been involved in customising the Mobile Allotment and have started planting seeds in readiness for transplanting them to the allotment when its renovation is complete.

The young people will be creating a magical mobile garden that will appeal to all the senses; heady scents, vibrant colours and delicious tastes will be the order of the day. And, of course, this will all have other benefits too. As well as giving the participants new skills in gardening and a better understanding of the links between the garden they have created and the food they eat it will also attract butterflies and bees - thus supporting urban bio-diversity in the city.

Mobile Allotment Moves On

The Mobile Allotment has now moved to its next temporary home, Oaklands School in Bethnal Green.  The allotment will soon be getting a makeover and lick of paint in preparation for the project - to work with the school pupils to design and plant an edible/sensory mobile garden. The pupils will also be designing their own mini-guide to urban gardening documenting and sharing their new skills.

New Mobile Allotment Unit

Avant-Gardening has a new member of the Mobile Allotment family. Artist, Lisa Cheung, has designed and built a new unit to join the existing two pieces. The new unit is a mobile, multi-functional planting unit that can easily be used by a single person and has been built for maximum flexibility. The brief for the unit was to make a piece that was fun, easy to move and had both storage and workspaces.


The new addition to the Mobile Allotment has been funded by London Borough of Greenwich and will soon be seen on the streets of the borough dispensing green wisdom and gardening tips

Waving goodbye to the Nightingale

Lisa sadly finished her summer-long artist's residency on the Nightingale Estate in Woolwich on Saturday. Over 4 months Lisa and a few guest Avant-Gardeners, worked with the community to host social gatherings and parties, ran t-shirt making workshops, created flowers out of recycled rubbish, grew plants and vegetables, shared gardening and cookery tips over the homemade food and cakes that the residents bought along, created a fanzine of collage and design and generally set about thinking how an urban community can have a positive impact on their immediate environment.
Avant-Gardening send out a great big 'thank you' to Seval and the team at Welcare and especially to the people of Nightingale themselves

Avant-Gardening the Barbican

The Mobile Allotment was invited to the Barbican as part of its Avant-Gardening the Barbican weekend.

Young Avant-Gardeners

kids at the allotment, originally uploaded by avantgardeninglondon.

constructing the raised bed

constructing the raised bed, originally uploaded by avantgardeninglondon.

Volunteers help assemble a raised bed for more planting on the Nightingale