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The Long Wall path has reopened after being closed

The Long Wall path has reopened after being closed for a while for @officialthameswater works. See you at the next Eco gathering 4th May! Link in bio ✨🌱⚡️

There will be no eco gathering this Saturday! Tham

There will be no eco gathering this Saturday! Thames Water are carrying out maintenance works and have closed the path.
💦 We’ll be back on May 4th 💦

As some of you know last year four of the apple tr

As some of you know last year four of the apple trees from the community orchard were stolen. Last week we turned this disappointment into a beautiful gift with young people from London’s first @childrensforest.earth who came down to the Long Wall Evology Garden and replaced the stolen trees with new growth!
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@saji73 and others from Rangers forest school have been working hard to create a Children’s Forest project in London and we’re honoured to be the first site to host their trees, including a hazel tree raised by them from seed. 🌱🌱🌱
We’re looking forward to welcoming them back to the garden for tending and watering days.
Thanks to @only_in_the_forest for the beautiful photos ✨

Join us this Saturday at the Long Wall Ecology Gar

Join us this Saturday at the Long Wall Ecology Garden for our monthly meet up. We’ll sadly be taking down the temporary compost toilet - it was only built to last for a couple of months and its lasted a whole year! But the wind and rain have taken their toll and it’s time for us to recycle it. It's been such an interesting experiment to have it on site, feeding into our on-going work with @compost-mentis to build a permanent compost toilet there, come and join us on Saturday and we can talk more about future plans! Link in bio to let us know you’ll be there 🪱

We arrived for the eco gathering this morning to f

We arrived for the eco gathering this morning to find the tool shed had been broken into and strimmer and tools stolen… the beauty of our site is its wild, open and un-surveilled nature, which is why we love it, and of course also what leaves it open to risks such as this. So despite the frustrations we rallied together and fixed the shed, continued on with the compost area and pruning the apple trees, great chats with volunteers, and we were rewarded by a wonderful passer-by called Michael dropping by with a donation in support of the garden. Ebbs and flows….!

We’ll be at the Long Wall Ecology Garden this Sa

We’ll be at the Long Wall Ecology Garden this Saturday for our monthly eco gathering, 11 - 1pm. Last month we nourished the apple trees and the worms with comfrey cuttings and bark chip and continued working on the composting site down at the riverside. It always seems surprising how quickly after new year the feeling of growth returns in the air, with daffodils already showing their shoots, bird song sounding more and more and even a few whispers of blossom appearing on the trees. We wonder how hope is possible when looking at the pain in the world, and yet it also feels undeniable when focusing on life bursting anew all around. Come and join us to muse on these contradictions and tune in to the budding more-than-human world. Link to let us know you’ll be there in the bio.

Our first eco gathering of 2024 is this Saturday 6

Our first eco gathering of 2024 is this Saturday 6th January, 11 - 1pm at the Long Wall Ecology Garden. We’ll be keeping warm with a clean up of the site, gathering our thoughts for the coming year and checking on the apple trees, along with other odd jobs. Come down for a chat and a tea! Link with info in the bio 🔵

⭐️THIS SATURDAY⭐️ Festive midwinter wreath

⭐️THIS SATURDAY⭐️
Festive midwinter wreath making
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Join us this Saturday from 11 - 1pm for festive wreath making to celebrate the midwinter season. We'll make a wreath ring from willow which you can decorate with foraged materials gathered around the site. You can bring your own too - you can use scented plants like rosemary, lavender and eucalyptus for their silvery foliage and beautiful smell, ivy and holly of course, and anything else that's sturdy enough to wrap and weave. You can take your wreath home and refresh the foliage in the coming weeks to keep it bright. Here's some photos from last year for inspiration - we used teasels, old man's beard, ivy, holly, rose hips and lots more....
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Brightening your door or home with evergreen foliage in these darker winter months reminds us of the life waiting to grow beneath the soil, perhaps helping to keep us connected to the inner seeds that need nourishment and care to make it through to the Spring.
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Come and join us!
Link to sign up in bio 👍

✅LAST DAY TO VOTE IS TODAY ✅ Help us keep cari

✅LAST DAY TO VOTE IS TODAY ✅
Help us keep caring for the Channelsea! Vote for our project as part of @newhamlondon #PeoplePoweredPlaces. The link is in our bio - register and vote for up to 10 projects in the Stratford & West Ham Ward. Good luck to all the other projects!
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Our project focuses on surveying river and land plant life with consultation and public events, tackling the vigorous growth of some species to enhance biodiversity and river resilience, and improving comfort, safety and accessibility along the riverbank with bins, benches and a bike park.
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VOTE FOR US!
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There are some other amazing projects to vote for in the area too - @sharedassets @_abbeygardens, @ambtionaspireachieve @thelinelondon @melaningalsnpals Carpenters & Docklands centre, and many more! You can vote for up to 10 projects.
VOTE NOW! Use the link in our bio
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Only four more days left to vote for the river! #p

Only four more days left to vote for the river! #peoplepoweredplaces

Our project ‘Channelsea Conservation & Care’ is one of the #PeoplePoweredPlaces projects up for public vote from now until this Sunday 12th November!
Follow the link in our bio to vote.
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Our project focuses on surveying river and land plant life with consultation and public events, tackling the vigorous growth of some species to enhance biodiversity and river resilience, and improving comfort, safety and accessibility along the riverbank with bins, benches and a bike park.
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VOTE FOR US!
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There are some other amazing projects to vote for in the area too - @sharedassets @_abbeygardens, @ambtionaspireachieve @thelinelondon @melaningalsnpals and many more! You can vote for up to 10 projects.
VOTE NOW! Use the link in our bio
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Tune in to @radiocampusparis tonight at 11pm/12am

Tune in to @radiocampusparis tonight at 11pm/12am (UK/France) - we’re delighted that Surge coop members @hannah_mary_white & @stephen_shiell (@blancsceol) have contributed a show to @radioart106 for the November23 edition - show #162 - a continuation of their on-going project ‘An Ear to the River’, attending to the Channelsea through sound and listening.

This iteration is an acoustic sketch of the river.
Field recordings include: test transmissions for ‘An Ear to the River’ installation, currently broadcasting as part of the ‘Catharsis’ exhibition for the @portodesignbiennale, curated by @margarida___mendes; excerpt of a conversation on the river with artists Anne Bean and Peter Fink, created for Acoustic Commons final exhibition in Aix-en-Provence in collaboration with @sound_camp; and a talk by curator and writer Faustine Pallez-Beauchamp as part of ’Stratford Unplumbed’ workshop in collaboration with @compost_mentis_coop.
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Also going out on a host of other great platforms across the week, tune in!

@reboot.fm @usmaradio @radiotsonami @radiorabe #pnode #radioart #soundart #fieldrecording #soundscape #soundscape_ecology #hydrophones #porto_design_biennale #AcousticCommons #channelsea #surge_cooprative #london #water

💙 THIS SATURDAY 💙 Join us down at the Long W

💙 THIS SATURDAY 💙
Join us down at the Long Wall Ecology garden for our regular gathering. We’ll be talking about our proposal for Newham’s #peoplepoweredplaces fund, chatting with passers-by, there’ll be apple cake and hot tea, and as always, a little bit of litter picking. Come and join us! Details in the bio 🌀

💦WE ALL LOVE THE CHANNELSEA RIVER! 💦 ✅VOTE

💦WE ALL LOVE THE CHANNELSEA RIVER! 💦
✅VOTE FOR US so we can continue caring for her ✅
Our project ‘Channelsea Conservation & Care’ is one of the #PeoplePoweredPlaces projects up for public vote from now until 12th November!
Follow the link in our bio to vote.
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Our project focuses on surveying river and land plant life with consultation and public events, tackling the vigorous growth of some species to enhance biodiversity and river resilience, and improving comfort, safety and accessibility along the riverbank with bins, benches and a bike park.
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VOTE FOR US!
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There are some other amazing projects to vote for in the area too - @sharedassets @_abbeygardens, @ambtionaspireachieve @thelinelondon @melaningalsnpals and many more! You can vote for up to 10 projects.
VOTE NOW! Use the link in our bio
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A few photos from last weekend’s eco gathering.

A few photos from last weekend’s eco gathering. Peter spotted the plants not already on our survey list - bittersweet nightshade, black nightshade and a euphorbia, we uncovered a little more of the path along the river, continued filling new compost bins, littler picking of course! And spruced up the temporary compost toilet 💩 thanks to all who came down, see you next month!

This Saturday it's our regular eco gathering. We’ll be doing some plant identification, creating some new signage for the temporary toilet and continuing to cut back some budleia and wildflower growth to allow new growth to come through in Spring. Come down! Link to let us know you’ll be there in the bio. 🌿💦🌿

Many thanks to all who joined us for the Channelse

Many thanks to all who joined us for the Channelsea Conservation event last Sunday, in celebration of @antiuniversitynow and part of our on-going work of observation and stewardship of the Long Wall Ecology Garden and the Channelsea river.
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A beautiful day with the wider community coming together under the anti-university umbrella, and very heartwarming to meet more local activists and environmentalists who we hadn’t met before, alongside friends and regulars. It was a great day and we worked hard together to achieve a lot. It was the first time we used our pennywort gathering system, giving us a better idea of how to begin to tackle this vigourous species on the water, and we’re happy to report the system worked really well! With another day out on the river we could achieve significant reduction in the growth, helping to keep it in check and encourage fish and other plant species to flourish. It was also great to get up close to the pennywort, it’s a beautiful plant, with a strong root system and a lovely leaf shape, and it felt good to begin this process of recycling its nutrients back into the community orchard.
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We’ll be continuing the work on land this Saturday at our Monthly Eco Gathering, 11 - 1pm, let us know you’re coming via the link in the bio!
Thanks to @groundworklondon ‘Our Space’ award for the support 🙏🏻

👂TONIGHT👂 Listen in to sounds from the Chann

👂TONIGHT👂
Listen in to sounds from the Channelsea river and the Spree river in Berlin, for the final broadcast in the current series of the ‘Spree~Channelsea Radio Group’ from moon rise in Berlin - 18:59 local time / 17:59 in London - to low tide on the Channelsea - 21:17 local time / 22:17 Berlin.

Listen live / join the chat via the link in our bio.

In London we’ll be with @sound_camp and @blancsceol broadcasting from onboard the Madorcha spitz barge at the @surgecoop mooring, and in Berlin @radiootherwise @radiogardening @mattersoftransmission will transmit from on board the Insola floating platform. We’ll listen to live sounds from each river, and a discussion between us and other members of Surge Coop and @spreepublik.

Live streams will be mixed in each studio and combined using the Mezcal online mixer.

The Spree ~ Channelsea Radio Group is presented in partnership with @wavefarmradio in New York's Upper Hudson Valley, USA. wavefarm.org/listen

Spree ~ Channelsea Radio Group is supported by @aceagrams CulturalBridge fund.

💦💦THIS SUNDAY💦💦 Join us for a day of c

💦💦THIS SUNDAY💦💦
Join us for a day of conservation work on the Channelsea river and at the Long Wall Ecology garden. We have a new floating pontoon ready to get out onto the water to bring in the pennywort, a vigorous species that populates the water's surface blocking out light and oxygen for other species. We’ll be pulling it out of the water and into the compost bins on land, ready to break down and become food for the apple trees.
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We'll also have jobs on land to complete, cutting back wildflowers that have gone to seed to make way for more next year, cutting back bramble and buddleia and other strong growing plants to maintain a healthy balance of species.
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Join us! Link to let us know you’re coming is in the bio.
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This event is part of @antiuniversitynow - a collaborative experiment to challenge institutionalised education, access to learning and the mechanism of knowledge creation and distribution. We love Anti-University's ethos and encourage you to look at the rest of the program - all free events organised by people wanting to share their knowledge in a non-herarchical way!

This is happening tomorrow evening at the Long Wal

This is happening tomorrow evening at the Long Wall Ecology garden - the final ‘reading~listening’ group as part of the ‘Spree~Channelsea Radio Group’ who spent a week here in July, and are now on the Spree in Berlin, ecological experiments in transmission between two rivers. You can listen in to some of the Berlin transmissions over on @radiootherwise @archipeldotcommunity and @sound_camp - and join Surge coop Co-directors Stephen & Hannah of @blancsceol tomorrow night to discuss three texts:
River rhythmicity: A conceptual means of understanding and leveraging the relational values of rivers found here: https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/pan3.10335
- Erin Robinsong’s poem 'RAIN ON THE INARTICULATE’ found here: https://effects-journal.com/archive/wet-dream
- The Cult of Water - David Bramwell & Peter Fowler
For copies of the texts and to let us know you’re coming DM us!
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We have a new floating pontoon! One step closer to

We have a new floating pontoon! One step closer to being able to tackle some of the pennywort growing on the Channelsea - we’ll be strapping half barrels to the side of the pontoon soon, then we’ll be out on the water pulling the plant into the barrels and emptying into compost bins on land! All part of our on-going learning journey with the river, understanding how we can balance growth to increase biodiversity 🌿💦
You can join in on 1st October in our conservation event as part of @antiuniversitynow - see link in bio for more details!
Thanks to Our Space Award for the support @groundworklondon

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