Our vision for Wolves Lane is a thriving centre for growing and distributing wholesome food and a space for the local food economy to develop through education, enterprise and events, making good food accessible to all and building a healthier, more sustainable food culture in the area.

Wolves lane centre was a council-run site that combined plant nursery operations and garden centre with community and schools education and volunteering. Haringey Council have been running the site since 2009 but Government cuts to their budgets led to a reduction in funding. As a result it was agreed that a third party would be best placed to utilise the site and maintain it as a community asset.

So we formed a coalition with a shared vision to transform Wolves Lane into a community food hub and to preserve the extensive rare urban glasshouse infrastructure. The coalition consists of:

• London Grown, a community food growers co-operative, complementing their field-scale growing at Pasteur Gardens with glasshouse use at Wolves Lane. They work with volunteers and school groups to increase social inclusion and engagement through food growing
• Crop Drop, Haringey-based veg box scheme, are supporting local sustainable food chains through providing a market for small scale organic growers. They  will be providing an outlet for produce grown on site
• OrganicLea offering support from experience of running a community enterprise in food growing and training at Hawkwood Nursery
• Ubele  are creating innovative solutions for some of our most pressing social, economic and political concerns through social leadership development, community enterprise and social action, incubating projects across the UK
• Shared Assets, a ‘think and do tank’ which is researching and promoting good models of public land management
• Dee Woods, BBC Cook of the Year in 2016, who runs healthy eating programmes and is a volunteer chef at the Granville Community Kitchen

As well as the members of the consortium, the centre is hosting an expanding number of groups, projects and activities, including:

• Wolves Lane Flower Company grow beautiful, seasonal flowers in for weddings, events and local delivery.
• Wolves Lane Workshop helping with upkeep of this marvellous community resource.
• Friends of Wolves Lane is a group of volunteers and local residents. All welcome.
• Puddles parties with pirates and fairies.