Lincoln Greeners
Lincoln Greeners is a sustainable, weekly gardening group.
Join to learn gardening skills, make friends and transform your neighbourhood.
Create a communal green space with edible garden for all to enjoy.
“Journey with Lincoln Greeners has helped me transform my life in ways I never imagined”
Our workshops
Lincoln Greeners is free to join and everyone is welcome.
We meet on Tuesday mornings, 10:30am - 12:30pm at Roxby Close, LS9 7LR.
Refreshments and equipment are provided.
No gardening experience necessary!
Bus tickets provided where needed.
Meet Matilya
Lincoln Greeners is run by Matilya, an RHS-qualified gardener and amateur herbalist who has spent most of her waking moments in the last 5 years tending to and communing with plants. At the heart of her practice is helping people reconnect with their immediate surroundings, creating green spaces in difficult places and using gardening as a vessel to connect with self, ancestors and other human and non-human beings.
What can Lincoln Greeners expect from the group?
As a group, we will decide what we’d like to grow and members will follow the whole growing process from starting seedlings to harvest. We will also be learning how to maintain and care for plants and share knowledge and skills. There will also be plenty of opportunities to socialise, drink herbal teas and enjoy the space we create together.
What will Lincoln Greeners have learnt by the end of the group?
Members will have learnt about the overall principles of starting an edible garden and growing sustainably. They will learn about the different kind of crops you can grow in this climate and how to care for and maintain them. They will also learn a bit about medicinal plants and their uses. I hope that we’ll also be able to learn from each other!
What’s your favourite plant?
Anyone close to me knows that my favourite plant of all time is Yarrow (latin name Achillea millefolium). It’s a wildflower in this country with feathery leaves and a white umbel flower which you see growing abundantly on sides of roads and grassy banks. This was the first plant I ever got to know and I work with it medicinally. I can’t quite explain my relationship with this plant but every time I see it it makes me extremely happy and I sneak it into any design I’m working on… You’ll also always find some yarrow tincture or tea near to me!
Supporters
Mafwa Theatre is funded by the UK Government through the UK Shared Prosperity Fund & Leeds City Council through the arts@leeds programme. The UK Shared Prosperity Fund is a central pillar of the UK government’s Levelling Up agenda and provides £2.6 billion of funding for local investment by March 2025. The Fund aims to improve pride in place and increase life chances across the UK investing in communities and place, supporting local business, and people and skills. For more information, visit https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/uk-shared-prosperity-fund-prospectus
