The Minerva Apothecary Garden has been created alongside the Grand Union Canal, next to Grand Union Gallery and Studios. We have transformed formerly unused space into a garden full of herbs and flowers, all with medicinal properties.
Image by Nina Bailie, 2021
With referrals for participants from Anawim, SIFA, and CRISIS Skylight, we host our weekly Minerva Garden Group* for people who are in a time of crisis, in need of community support or experience gender oppression with engagement sessions that are linked to growing and cooking.
The Minerva Garden Group work together to produce herbal teas which are designed collectively during ‘tasting sessions’ and are available to buy through the Grand Union shop.
In 2023 the Minerva Garden Group worked with Joanne Masding (Modern Clay) Chloe Qureshi, Kate Thompson, Rebecca Noble, Sarah Hamilton-Baker, and Chloë Lund to develop recipes for tea, to cook (and eat) together, to maintain the garden space and expand it and to develop their own practice in tea blending for community enterprise, performative storytelling and creative production.