We have a briefing 11-12 so after that could be good? Get some lunch and sit in the park/car park?

x

hey sorry only just checked the blog. Hope you had a lovely bbq, weathers been amazing for it! I'm free to meet up on tuesday. Think we should all have another chat and clarify our ideas.

Iwas thinking that i really like the sustainability/eco vibe of the space we're making and i thought it would be cool to do a foraging course and read up a bit about foraging and maybe when we have the opening some of the food we serve could be foraged? What do you all think about that?

I've been looking up some courses but haven't found anthing free yet! kew eco village used to do a free foraging tour aroung richmond park but i think they've been evicted now? hampstead heath do a mushroom foraging course. Will keep looking. I want to do one anyway.

Is everyone free for tuesday?

Beth do you have a phone number?

x

HELLO EVERYONE

I AM BACK FROM HOLIDAYS, sorry i haven't been updating the blog etc but it all looks really good. are you all in london? or when are you all back? we should meet up asap!!

if any of you are about on wednesday coming/april 27th. we are having a bbq/party day at our house we you guys should all pop into cos it will be fun and we can catch up/chat about stuff. Lu i know your already coming :) but yeah it will be good music good food lots of nice people.

xx

Hey hope everyones having a lovely break! When are we planning on all meeting up again to start on building? I'm in manchester this weekend but back in london on tuesday x

Church

Tit for Tat

Hallo lovlies!

I've been scouring charity shops and carboot's for interesting bits of tat we could use in our shop! found these nice wooden shelves and some wooden frames which i've painted up and gonna try and distress, i think they might look nice with a redy-brown on them, if we're still going for that theme?

I have been making an epic amount of bunting, these are the first 8 meters.. i have maybe 60 meters more to go.. i dont know if this is abit over the top!

Also looking at gardening apron designs, might try and make some up whilst ive still got access to a sewing machine. It would be great if we could do some talking about typography and logos? id like to start publicising that fair we're having when we get back?

I'm really going off the idea of the structure being round and having a wicker/willow roof and painted wood. I'm worried it's going to end up looking like a beach hut! I like the idea of there beng something organic about the shape and it growing depending on the materials we find. and i also really love the images we have of shacks and sheds with different woods together.

I know this signs really ugly but it could be nice to make signs using strips of wood like this, but nice wood and colours and fonts not like this picture.

Signs and fonts

I like rosie-lea. I also like the idea of having the font made up of letters from veg packaging. I can imagine the space being quite eclectic so i think that font would work well. We could pick out individual fonts from the mix aswell and use them for writing signs to explain how to plant the peat pots ect. Did that make any sense? I don't think t does...

yes! everything sounds brilliant. how long does it take to grow tea? 'rosy lea' or 'rosie lea'? i'll probably be back end of next week if not before, just cause i don't have much moneys. i've got loads of seeds to plant and will try and find somewhere good to get plain aprons from? dyeing with veg colour looks dead good as well. X

beetroot tote bags

Alphabety

Thinking of Type Faces.. this is a really interesting idea that seems to have worked really well, Rosie Pearmain assembeled her alphabet from the signs on fruit and veg market stalls, it looks really good... more here.

plans plans

I think we just need to stay strong to our ideas and believe they can work! The Rosie Lea Tea House sounds wicked and we all love tea! Gardening Aprons, Tea towls, Seed packets/kits etc then the plans themselves.. so people can make their own tea at home?
Maybe it would be fun to sell the skills needed to take care of your plant, rather than the plant itself? selling on time instead of commodity? i dont know, it would add something more to our tea house if we could look at the profit in a more interesting way, like we were saying befor, making friends and learn from building!

I think after our meeting with Adamina on friday we were all feeling abit confused about where our project fitted into this alotment thing, and we werent sure wether or how to tell adamina what we had in mind? After you guys left i went back up because id forgot something and spoke to adamina again, i told her more of what we were planning, a social space within the garden. She seemed really up for it, and got really excited about it aswell! i dont think we have anything to worry about. As long as we have her to talk to the dean through that we will have alot more liberty with what we can do. Shes the grown up talking on our behalf!

Ive been collecting a list of local buisnesses in the area that im gona contact for materials etc once we've confirmed a name and logo, Also my grandma is part of an organisation that provide grants for schools building gardens, 300 pounds a time, so im gona try and get in contact with them about this aswell!

Also planting lots, i think like you said hannah herbs and tea plants are a good idea! Plus they grow quickly and smell delicious!

Got an Email from the guy who built the structures today ....


Hi Rosanna,

sorry its taken me this long to get back to you... I would love it if you were interested in working with my mobile green house but I am afraid that unless I am very lucky all of my work is leaving the site at the end of this month. I will be asking Camberwell for an extension but I don't know if this will be possible. I will let you know if they give me more time on the site.

all the best
Francis

Hannah and me were saying last night it would be good if we could all post up our ideas of what this project could and should be and also our concerns for it? Then we can all get abit clearer an idea of where we are with it!

Alsoo beth get a phone!! :D
xxxx

yess. yeah we need to design the building, not too detailed though as we dont know what wood we are going to find. but crates for the floor, doors for the surfaces etc. and we need to make/design the roof. i've started plating herbs but wont be able to bring them back to london, so i've been given some seeds we can plant.

Rosie-lea nice. I like The rosie-lea tea house and The thread and spade.

I think were still building a space? I think it would still be nice to build a communal space/tea house. I really like the idea of building a round house, like our original idea. With quirky furniture and handmade cushions ect. I think it would be nice to plant around the house aswell, as a separate thing from the allotment. I want to get involved the allotment also but I don't think we can use that as our main idea because theres so many other people involved that thave already put more into it. I don't have a skype account but will set one up and could talk later. Think we need to all chat about our ideas again soon so we have a clearer idea of what we're doing. I think we need to get started on building soon aswell because we won't have that long after easter and think our ideas are quite big! I've started planting veg, herbs and salad which can be used for the allotment/ the house. If were still building the house i think we need to decide on building materials and a structure soon and start collecting the materials, the next few weeks would be a good time to do it because we can't get into wilsons rd. If were building a tea house a lot of the plants around the house could be things like fennel, camomile and mint for tea? and people could buy them and take them home.

hey, yeah those fuel bricks look easy enough to make. we need to find out whether wilson road is in a smoke free area as well. are we just doing the garden thing now or are we still building? i think even if we are doing the garden thing, we need to have our own thing/project/workshop related to the garden because it's not just ours anymore X

Camberwell Carrot Co-operative????

If we are going to build some kind of controlled fire/oven, it would be great to try and make some of these fuel bricks. We could go down to the workshop in 3D and ask them for their old sawdust, apparently these burn for ages without too much smoke

Im coming round to the Camberwell Carrot idea, its Tongue in cheek and we are art students after all??

skype?

HALLO lovleys!

When are yee up for skyping ? tonite of monday night?

I just brought this book, its really good!

any more thoughts on names? i want to start contacting buisnesses for donations for our cause!

wanna post tings up

http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/1AgJnp/www.baekdal.com/design/a-wearable-planter/

wowzer

http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/2ADUJN/inhabitat.com/finca-bellavista-highflying-treehouses-nestled-in-the-rainforest-canopy/finca-bella-vista-village-8-2%253Fextend%253D1

http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/2wjEKC/thecommonstudio.com/index.php%253F/project/greenaid/

http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/7AaII2/dornob.com/custom-tree-house-plans-diy-ideas-building-designs/

tree houses

camberwell patch is nice!

there's a tea shop in nottingham walled lee rosy's, like rhyming slang for tea. are we still building a space?

http://www.designspongeonline.com/2010/05/sewing-101-making-a-pouf.html

A Rose by any other name would smell as Sweet?

naaaames????

The Patch

Camberwell Patch

Camberwell Carrot

The Shed

Thread and Spade

Twine

String

Rosie-lea -(tea garden?)

i duno!

4 way skype this weekend sometime must be set up! do u all skype lioke? x

I like this really simple bold font for signs and flyers ect

I know most people just think these are really naff but i have one and i love it and i reackon there prob quite easy to make.

I think this is just some guys bathroom in his house. We might be able to get broken tiles from tile shops and make mosaics! could be good for floor and plant pots for allotment.

Maybe a bit too ambitous but keep seeing houses with roof gardebs that look really good

it must work as insulation and helps the plants get more sun!

mugs?



wish tree at glastonbury

i don't know if this was something we wanted to do but we could build a compost bin? so that we just end up recycling any old veg/compost/food waste etc