2025 we are done!! 🎉🌿
Sending love, joy, warmth and calm vibes for the incoming Solstice. It’s time to retreat like our creature friends. Festive Cheer to you all. Happy End of Year.
Catch you all in 2026! Byeeeeee 💛
Our community 🧡
You’ve probably noticed we’ve been having a few birthday events to celebrate turning 10 this year. Back in August, we organised a birthday get together for our community members and special friends. It was so special to bring together team members past and present along with community members from across the entire timeline of HH. There was a huge amount of love in the room as some of us shared what Hackney Herbal means to us. We had a delicious Palestinian feast cooked for us by Mayya from @bidchenkitchen and 2 beautiful cakes made by Iva @cornflower_e5
It’s these moments which really remind us why we do the work that we do even when it’s felt quite hard over the last few years navigating the post brexit, post covid, cost of living crisis landscape. Combined with a state of the world that makes it harder and harder to feel inspired, optimistic and motivated. Being together like this reinforces how special and supportive our little community is and is the best medicine for the times we are in. Thank you to everyone who has been involved along the way. Hackney Herbal is what it is because of you. 💚🧡
Create your own green space at home with a FREE plant 🪴
Join us next week at Westminster Cathedral Piazza for a celebration of urban greening as we launch our Pollinator Pathways initiative 🐝
Pollinator Pathways are a connected network of plants and green spaces designed to help bees, butterflies and other pollinators move through the city. Whether it goes on a windowsill, doorstep or office frontage, your plant is part of this effort 🌼
📆 Drop in from 9am to 2pm, Thursday 21 May
📍 Westminster Cathedral Piazza
🪴 Limited number of free plants available
🌱 Plus, join free workshops with @hackneyherbal on gardening at home and making the most of small urban spaces
💡 Want to go a step further? Look out for our toolkit offering practical guidance on introducing more planting into homes, workplaces and public spaces
Upcoming Workshops + Walks🍃
May is an exciting time in the plant world. Gardens and green spaces are quickly becoming filled with new growth as we head towards summer abundance. It’s a lovely time to learn about the wonders of herbs, get growing and generally spend time getting up close and personal with our plant friends.
Here is what we have coming up over the coming weeks:
🫖 Herbal Wellbeing Masterclass
📅 Saturday 9th May, 2-5pm
📍 Hackney Herbal Studio, E9 7PX
🌸 Herb Walk at Hackney Marshes
📅 Saturday 16th May, 3-5.30pm
📍 Hackney Marshes (Pavilion)
🪴 Grow Your Own Herbs Masterclass
📅 Sunday 31st May 2 - 5pm
📍 Hackney Herbal Garden, E9 5LD
These all happen in different locations so check the address when you are booking!
🎟 Book your tickets via the link in our bio. See you soon ✨
Come and celebrate summer and meet fantastic people greening up Hackney - and discover ways to get involved!
With stalls, plant talks, music, plant sales, refreshments, art and ways to get involved! With stalls, plant talks, music, plant sales, refreshments, art and greening activities for all ages.
Featuring @communityapothecary.wf@wolveslaneseedprotectors@hackneyherbal@tm_hackney Live music, Drumming Circle, and lots more…
If you live on this planet this event is for you!
Saturday June 6th th 12.00pm – 5pm
@coreartshackney Community Garden, Behind St Barnabas Church Homerton High Street E9 6DL
Part of @londonparksandgardens London Open Gardens #LOG2026
Making Herbal Vinegars 🌿 Last week we had a lovely time in the garden celebrating #EarthDay and making spring tonics with our Nature Club. Infusing fresh herbs is a lovely way to preserve them at their seasonal best. We used a mixture of different herbs including cleavers, nettle, calendula, mint, rosemary, 3-cornered leek and bay.
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To make an infused vinegar all you need to do is fill a clean glass jar roughly half full with any mix of fresh edible herbs and then cover with vinegar. We like apple cider vinegar for all the added health benefits. Leave your herbs to infuse for about 2-3 weeks shaking every few days and then strain out the herbs. You can use the vinegar in cooking or dilute a few spoonfuls in hot water with lemon and honey.
Can’t west to strain out these ones in a few weeks!
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Thank you to everyone who came to our Eco-Gardening workshop @trowbridge_gardens . It was great to plant seeds with you all and see everyone get stuck in to up-cycling waste into plant pots.
Happy growing 🌱💚
A long walk, shared knowledge, and time together
On Tuesday we spent the afternoon exploring the woodland around Hackney Wick with @hackneyherbal learning about local herbs, urban foraging, and the stories held within the landscape.
From identifying plants to simply being present in nature, it was a chance to step outside the day-to-day and spend meaningful time together. Thanks hackney herbal for holding the space.
Together there is a way
#community #recovery #hackneywick #urbannature #foraging
A lovely evening in the resident lounge at Hone Dalston.
Recently, we hosted a herb planting event with @hackneyherbal bringing residents together for a relaxed and engaging session filled with great conversation, practical tips and plenty of inspiration to take home.
Karen did a brilliant job organising the event, making sure the atmosphere felt warm, positive and connected throughout. It was great to see residents so engaged, asking questions, sharing thoughts and fully embracing the experience.
These are the moments that help turn a building into a real community.
#HomeByHone #ResidentExperience #CommunityLiving #Dalston #ResidentEvents
#EarthWeek(end) 24-26th April plans? ☀️♻️
🗺️ We made you a mini circular guide to Hackney Wick so you can spend 24–26 April wandering the neighbourhood, discovering inspiring materials, swapping what you no longer use, repairing your clothes, getting hands-on with upcycling, joining eco gardening, eating earthy goodies, and picking up a few lovely rewards along the way
Think of it as your sunny weekend trail for circular action in the Wick!
Swipe through the map and you’ll find:
🧵 @renee_materials 3-day Creative Reuse Community Event - reclaimed material kilo sale, art + craft material swap & garment repair drop-in with @nadien_klages
🌱 @hackneyherbal free eco gardening drop-in
🪡 @yodomo.co textile reuse sale
♻️ @looplyplanet plastic upcycling workshop
✨ @fibrelab sustainable young makers showcase
🥗 @thingypeople 10% off the vegan menu
🫙 @refilltherapy refill & reward offer
Special moment on Saturday 25 April - Hackney Herbal, Yodomo, Renée & Nadien Mending all coming together in the neighbourhood, kindly sponsored by @arbeitstudios through the @hackneycouncil Local Area Activation Fund.
👉 Save this for your weekend wander and tag your circular buddy!
See you in Hackney Wick!
#OurPowerOurPlanet #earthday2026 #earthmonth #circularliving
🪴Grow Your Own Herbs🪴
Join us in the Herb Garden for an upcoming masterclass on Growing Your Own Herbs. You will learn everything you need to get growing as well as sow seeds and make cuttings to take home.
We have two dates coming up:
📅 Sun 19th April, 2-5pm
📅 Sun 31 May, 2-5pm
You will learn about:
🪴 Growing herbs in different settings
🌱 Propagation: growing herbs from scratch
🐝 Organic gardening: How to care for the soil and for your plants using organic methods
🌸 Top tips for keeping your herbs happy and healthy throughout the season
🌿 Harvesting: How and when to harvest a variety of herbs
✂️ Preserving your harvest: Tips on how to process and store the herbs you grow
Tickets include 3-hour in-person workshop, detailed printed handouts and refreshments. You’ll also sow seeds and make plant cuttings to take home.
It is suitable for complete beginners and those who already have some gardening or growing experience.
This workshop takes places outdoors at our garden in Hackney Wick.
Link in bio ✨
🪴 FREE Eco-Gardening Event 🪴
📅 Sat 25th April, 11-1pm
To celebrate Earth Day, we’ll be hosting a free drop-in event showing you how to grow your own veg, herbs and flowers at home in an earth friendly way. We’ll be showing you how to up-cycle waste into plant pots so you can sow some seeds to take home.
We are encouraging everyone to bring their own pots to sow their seeds into to show you how you can up-cycle old materials into planting pots. So please bring along any small plant pots you might have already or containers like tetra-pak, yoghurt pots, plastic food trays etc.
🪴 We’ll also have some plants for sale as part of the event.
🌸 The event is free and open to all to attend.
📍Trowbridge Gardens, 1 Trowbridge Road, E9 5LD.
🎨 Illustrations by @katmovser
