{"id":2024,"date":"2010-07-26T17:26:35","date_gmt":"2010-07-26T16:26:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/?p=2024"},"modified":"2010-07-26T17:26:35","modified_gmt":"2010-07-26T16:26:35","slug":"urban-orchard-and-and-community-garden-union-street-se1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/urban-orchard-and-and-community-garden-union-street-se1\/","title":{"rendered":"Urban orchard and and community garden, Union Street, SE1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/urban-orchard-london-11.jpg\" alt=\"Urban Orchard, 100 Union Street, London SE1 part of London Festival of Architecture\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Following the London Festival of Architecture and lasting through the autumn, a derelict site at 100 Union Street in SE1 has been transformed into an urban orchard and community garden.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s how the organisers describe the venture:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Designed by Heather Ring of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.waywardplants.org\/\">Wayward Plant Registry<\/a> for The Architecture Foundation and built with the help of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bost.org.uk\/\">Bankside Open Spaces Trust<\/a> and an array of other helpful volunteers the garden will regenerate a  disused site in Bankside and create a place for exchange between local  residents and visitors to the Festival.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/urban-orchard-london-02.jpg\" alt=\"Urban Orchard, 100 Union Street, London SE1 part of London Festival of Architecture\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Entrance to the orchard.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/urban-orchard-london-01.jpg\" alt=\"Urban Orchard, 100 Union Street, London SE1 part of London Festival of Architecture\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/urban-orchard-london-03.jpg\" alt=\"Urban Orchard, 100 Union Street, London SE1 part of London Festival of Architecture\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/urban-orchard-london-04.jpg\" alt=\"Urban Orchard, 100 Union Street, London SE1 part of London Festival of Architecture\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/urban-orchard-london-05.jpg\" alt=\"Urban Orchard, 100 Union Street, London SE1 part of London Festival of Architecture\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The garden will last from 19 June \u2013 19 August after which the garden will be dismantled and all the plants and the 85 trees will be replanted around Bankside as part of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.betterbankside.co.uk\/bankside-urban-forest\">Bankside Urban Forest<\/a> vision.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/urban-orchard-london-06.jpg\" alt=\"Urban Orchard, 100 Union Street, London SE1 part of London Festival of Architecture\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/urban-orchard-london-07.jpg\" alt=\"Urban Orchard, 100 Union Street, London SE1 part of London Festival of Architecture\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/urban-orchard-london-08.jpg\" alt=\"Urban Orchard, 100 Union Street, London SE1 part of London Festival of Architecture\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/urban-orchard-london-09.jpg\" alt=\"Urban Orchard, 100 Union Street, London SE1 part of London Festival of Architecture\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/ping-pong-london-09.jpg\" alt=\"Ping Pong London, 100 tables pop up across London \" \/><\/p>\n<p>A table tennis table in a skip is in the garden as part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/ping-pong-london-100-tables-pop-up-across-london\/\">Ping Pong London project<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/urban-orchard-london-10.jpg\" alt=\"Urban Orchard, 100 Union Street, London SE1 part of London Festival of Architecture\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/urban-orchard-london-12.jpg\" alt=\"Urban Orchard, 100 Union Street, London SE1 part of London Festival of Architecture\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/mayday\/029.html\" target=\"_blank\">Guerilla gardening<\/a>&#8216; kit of making &#8216;seed bombs.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/urban-orchard-london-13.jpg\" alt=\"Urban Orchard, 100 Union Street, London SE1 part of London Festival of Architecture\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/urban-orchard-london-14.jpg\" alt=\"Urban Orchard, 100 Union Street, London SE1 part of London Festival of Architecture\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/urban-orchard-london-15.jpg\" alt=\"Urban Orchard, 100 Union Street, London SE1 part of London Festival of Architecture\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/urban-orchard-london-16.jpg\" alt=\"Urban Orchard, 100 Union Street, London SE1 part of London Festival of Architecture\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/urban-orchard-london-17.jpg\" alt=\"Urban Orchard, 100 Union Street, London SE1 part of London Festival of Architecture\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/urban-orchard-london-18.jpg\" alt=\"Urban Orchard, 100 Union Street, London SE1 part of London Festival of Architecture\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/urban-orchard-london-19.jpg\" alt=\"Urban Orchard, 100 Union Street, London SE1 part of London Festival of Architecture\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/urban-orchard-london-20.jpg\" alt=\"Urban Orchard, 100 Union Street, London SE1 part of London Festival of Architecture\" \/><\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.unionstreetorchard.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Urban Orchard<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/london\/\" target=\"_blank\">More London photos<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following the London Festival of Architecture and lasting through the autumn, a derelict site at 100 Union Street in SE1 has been transformed into an urban orchard and community garden.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6710,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[194,193],"tags":[313,10,312,310,314],"class_list":["post-2024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-london-features","category-places","tag-garden","tag-london","tag-orchard","tag-ping-pong","tag-se1"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/urban-orchard-london-11.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQI7P-wE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2024"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2026,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2024\/revisions\/2026"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}