See your Waste Become Soil at the LCC Community Garden Launch

This event marks the opening of a new shared growing space at LCC, and invites students and staff to learn more about the living systems that will sustain it.

In this session, we’ll learn more about the ambitions for the garden space, while exploring how food waste from the LCC canteen, café, and bar can be transformed through bokashi fermentation and composting into living soil for the garden.

Participants will help plant, sow, mulch, and care for the garden, while also learning about the composting process and contributing directly to it. Blending celebration with practical action, the event reframes repair as both ecological and social: a way of restoring broken nutrient cycles, cultivating biodiversity, and creating a space for shared stewardship, wellbeing, and connection with the more-than-human world at LCC.This hands-on event is a chance to meet others, take part in practical gardening activities, and learn how food waste from across LCC can be composted and returned to the soil.

This session will be run byYuxin Jiang (lecturer and permaculture practitioner),LuciaConejero Rodilla (library services, sustainable designer-maker) Yoshimi Hata (climate advocate, member of compost collective), and Ben Brett (Project Co-Lead and Community Engagement of Burgess Park Community Plant Nursery).