How Growing Hollingdean began…

Growing Hollingdean began many years ago as Hollingdean Ecological Action Project, whose volunteers planted many of the fruit and nut orchards that we benefit from today. Brighton Permaculture Trust (BPT) has always supported this work, with many volunteer hours and training and expertise. With this amazing legacy and the wonderful continuing support of Brighton Permaculture Trust, Growing Hollingdean developed in 2020, having its first Seed and Plant Swap in the open air, just as the pandemic lockdown was beginning. That year we encouraged people to grow food in their front gardens and share their ideas. The response was amazing.

Growing Hollingdean Annual AGM Plant & Seed Fair

Our annual Plant & Seed Fair is run by volunteers who spend the year potting up seeds, taking cuttings, collecting seeds and growing plants to bring along to the event. It’s a lovely community day where people can bring, buy or swap plants and seeds and, of course, there’s always plenty of homemade cake to make, share and eat! The money we raise helps cover our core annual costs, including insurance, our website, tools, maintenance, printing and refreshments for volunteers.

We also try to have a guest speaker, raffle and other stalls at each event. As part of the AGM, we give a short presentation about what has happened over the past year, what we’ve achieved and the difference our volunteers have made. Most importantly, we take the opportunity to thank everyone who has helped make Growing Hollingdean possible.

Want to see what our Plant & Seed Fair is like? Have a look at our previous events on our blog pages to see what we’ve been up to and get a flavour of the day.

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AGM presentation, see what we did in April 2025 to March 2026

 

See what we did in April 2024 to March 2025 

See what we did in April 2023 to March 2024

Meet your local gardeners at Tree Guardians or Forest Gardening

More than anything we have all enjoyed ourselves so much connecting with friends, old and new, and across generations and communities. And finding local organisations who have been generous with time and resources too. We love what we do and want more people to join in. There is always room for more people and more ideas too. And it helps make Hollingdean an amazing place to live.  

Visit our Tree Guardian page – https://growinghollingdean.org.uk/tree-guardians/

Visit our Forest Garden page – https://growinghollingdean.org.uk/forest-garden/

Visit our Community Garden pages – https://growinghollingdean.org.uk/community-gardens/

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We look forward to seeing you at our next event.