Grow Cook Eat

Grow, Cook Eat! 2025/26

Visit our Grow, Cook, Eat! Eventbrite page to book your free tickets.

Our Grow, Cook, Eat! events are open to all ages and people from all walks of life. Come and learn something new and enjoy yourself in our relaxed community setting. All the food at our events is vegetarian, with a vegan option available. All events include cultural entertainment alongside delicious food, including ingredients grown at our site. Hosted at our beautiful garden unless otherwise stated.

Community meals

Fruit harvest and co-design, Wed 27 Aug 1pm
Black History Month community lunch and arts workshop, Sat 18 Oct 1pm
Make a Halloween witchy stew and hear ghost stories, Fri 31 Oct 5.30pm
Neurodiverse Indian meal, November (quiet space, invite only)
Christmas community meal and karaoke, Sat 20 Dec 1pm (at Harrison Hall)
Vintage tea party and zero waste fashion show, Sat 17 Jan 1pm (Harrison Hall)
Year of the Horse community meal and Chinese tai chi demo, Sat 28 Feb 1pm (Harrison Hall)
Irish lunch with music and dancing, Sat 21 March 1pm
80s goth community meal and music, Sat 18 April, 5.30pm
Drawing workshop and lunch, Sat 16 May, 1pm

Gardening events

We also host invite only quieter gardening events for neurodiverse people. Please email info@earthmoves.org to find out more.

Fruit and nut tree planting, Sun 26 Oct 1pm, Sun 2 Nov 1pm, Sun 9 Nov 1pm
Hardwood cuttings, Sun 16 Nov 1pm
Year of the Horse: horses and permaculture, February
How to grow salads, Sun 12 April 1pm

Some of our events are at tea time, please be aware our site is an alcohol free space, and we welcome those in recovery. You will not be allowed to bring your own drinks. Please also note our community space is a smoke free zone.

Where is the site?

The Earth Moves site at Telegraph Lane can be accessed by foot and bicycle from Bayswater Road, turning onto Green Lane and walking up the lane for 480 meters. It is also within walking distance from the North Wirral Coastal Car Park on Green Lane, Wallasey CH45 8NA. There is no public car parking at the site itself, bicycle parking is available.

Funding for this project is thanks to the National Lottery to support voluntary and community organizations delivered through Community Foundations for Merseyside. Thanks also to Wirral Council.

Grow, Cook Eat! 2024/25

Over the project we did 3 co-design sessions, 15 horticulture sessions and 11 free community meals with a cultural activity.

Our community meals included: Vintage fashion show and afternoon tea, Black History Month Ethiopian food and crafts, Halloween stew and ghost stories, Middle Eastern lunch and dancing, Christmas and karaoke, zine making and lunch, veggie scouse and a film screening, Irish lunch and dancing, Mexican food and crafts, pizza making with Marco, Bengali lunch and dancing.

We have memorialised the project in a cookbook for families, you can access our family cookbook online. Or download the family cookbook.

Funded thanks to The National Lottery Community fund.

Grow, Cook Eat! 2022/23

Over The project, we hosted two co-design sessions, two planting days and 15 community meals!

We planted, harvested, cooked and served food from around the world, everything from Ethiopian curry to Italian sourdough pizza.

Our community meals were aimed at bringing different cultures together over food, the events were as follows: Foraged stew, Halloween soup, Veggie Christmas meal, Bengali lunch, Moroccan meal, Jewish lunch, Ethopian meal, Mexican bean stew, Italian pizza making day, Welsh afternoon tea, Scouse lunch, summer salad harvesting and eating.

We have memorialised this amazing project in a community co-designed cookbook, which you can access online for free.