Join us over lunch for the launch of Rooting for Community Gardens booklet, bringing together learnings from visits to community gardens and farms in the North East.
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NewBridge Gallery is now closed until Friday 16 October.
You can join us on 5 September and 3 October for Saturday Social. You can still shop NewBridge Books throughout the weekdays!
Join us over lunch for the launch of Rooting for Community Gardens booklet, bringing together learnings from visits to community gardens and farms in the North East.
We will be sharing Rooting for Community Gardens for the first time at Lettuce Eat – a monthly bring-and-share lunch at SAW that is part of Shieldfield Grows, a programme of activity that promotes sustainable food production, fair land usage and community flourishing.
The idea of a bring-and-share lunch is that everyone is invited to bring a dish to share with the group. We’ll be getting in a few extra bits so if you don’t have a dish, please come along anyway – there will be enough to go round!
Rooting for Community Gardens is a collaboration between Dwellbeing Shieldifeld, For Solidarity and SAW. Between 2023 and 2025, Dwellbeing Shieldfield, For Solidarity and SAW worked together to host a series of visits to community gardens in the North East of England. The group was made up of volunteers, workers and members of local community gardening projects, as well as individuals curious about growing plants and community-run gardens.
During each trip we worked collectively to gather knowledge about the places we visited, by asking five enquiry questions using the growing of a plant as inspiration. Rooting for Community Gardens brings together these learnings alongside illustrations by NewBridge studio holder Jim Spendlove.
With thanks to Bees of Bensham, Dilston Physic Garden, Gibside Community Farm, Jesmond Community Orchard, Moss Peteral, North-East Organic Growers, Ouseburn Trust, Scotswood Garden, Shieldfield Grows, Station Masters Community Wildlife Garden, The Comfrey Project, TopSoil and Wild Roots.
This event is hosted at Shieldfield Art Works (SAW). Find out more about their accessibility here.
This event is part of our current exhibition For Solidarity: Document H.E.T., Alternative Publishing and Community Undercurrents, an exhibition of pre-internet printed matter and ephemera forming a backdrop for a public programme on solidarity today.
Wednesday 1 April 2026
12.30–1.30pm
Free - Booking not required.
Shieldfield Art Works (SAW)
1 Clarence St
Shieldfield
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE2 1YH
The NewBridge Project is a charity, registered charity no. 1173849.
We are grateful to our funders, including Arts Council England, Newcastle City Council, Garfield Weston Foundation, Jerwood Foundation, Community Foundation North East, Newcastle University and the The North East Mayoral Strategic Authority.
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