Growing, learning and protesting!
We love nature play at Triangle and are proud to run our very own Nature Club
Funded by The City Bridge Trust, Nature Club teaches a wide range of environmental skills and ideas through play. The young people love to tend to their allotment, growing herbs, fruit and vegetables for use in our free lunches. Kohlrabi cabbage, potatoes, rhubarb, runner beans, lemon balm and blackberries are just a selection of our crops!
Over the last year Nature Club have built a Green Wall, won an Edible Lambeth award, run a successful ‘STOP IDLING’ Cleaner Air campaign amongst trips to the Wetlands and Vauxhall Farm.
Planting hundreds of seeds and discovering a wonderful variety of creatures including dragonflys, rare newts and tons of snails! Ivy mining bees have formed a colony behind our shed which thrilled our young people as the bees emerged from the ground.
“She really loves Nature Club – when I ask if she wants to go to the park or to Triangle, she says Triangle, because of the Nature Club”
“The first time I gardened at Triangle I planted beetroot and leeks. I like gardening because you can feel the soil in your hands. But is it true that soil is actually worm poo?”
Nature Club covers four topics of environmental education throughout the year…
Green Facts cover finding out about the flora and fauna on the playground - identification, finding out what the fauna eat, understanding their life cycles.
Biodiversity - regular surveys of the species we have attracted to the playground; fun and practical projects to increase their range and number.
Green Foods - ensuring the young people continue to engage with the allotment and other gardening activities, encouraging more experimentation with crops, regular cookery sessions, themed around crops and foraging.
Green Futures - looking at the finite resources we have and how we can help to preserve them.
Nature Club visit the WWT London Wetlands 2018
“I like gardening because I like being in nature and feeling part of nature….and I know the name of that white butterfly we see a lot, it’s a Large White, I’ve seen it near mine too. I’ve learnt a lot… I don’t usually like lettuce, but lettuce from the garden at Triangle taste’s nice!”