Scouse Flowerhouse
Join Talking Plants at the Mowbray for and amazing night celebrating Northern Horticulture, with a talk by Richard Scott - Joining up the Northern Flowerhouse: A Revival of the Urban Commons.
Building a momentum for positive change in creative conservation, ecology and re-wilding first came from urban centres and energies, from Liverpool, Sheffield, Leicester, Berlin, St Helen’s, Bristol and London. This tends to be forgotten in the ascendency of re-wilding on distant country estates.
So, it is timely to reflect on these past energies, and future visions, and re-appraise a new Northern song, giving fresh voice to old heroes and heroines which link to place-based nature recovery in the heartlands of our cities. This is important, since 70% of the world will live in urban areas by 2050.
Our Liverpool narrative is represented by the 130+ Scouse Flowerhouse members of a young Community Benefit Society, as a provocation to build a bigger movement linking to the skill of horticulture and care. A land ethic, which we are assembling together, offers up a new form of northern pride and attitude across the North. Everywhere is North of somewhere after all, except the South Pole! The Scouse Flowerhouse look forward to building an exchange with Talking plants. Now is the time for action, with a Northern sense of purpose, pride and grit. In person, Sheffield.
Time: 19:30 GMT
