Branch Out | Creating Your Gardening Club with The Gardening Drawing Club
Creating Your Gardening Club is a new hands-on, participatory workshop that draws on artist Johanna Tagada Hoffbeck's experience of founding The Gardening Drawing Club and serving on a local allotment committee in rural Oxfordshire. The session offers practical guidance alongside creative tools for those wishing to start and establish a gardening club or growing community in a variety of settings, including neighbourhoods, schools, workplaces, allotments, nomadic and cultural organisations.
The workshop responds to the many conversations Johanna had with individuals seeking advice on how to initiate and sustain collective growing practices. It explores both the organisational and social aspects of starting a club — from shaping a shared ethos and working collaboratively, to navigating practical considerations such as access to space, materials, and ongoing participation.
Participants will take part in a simple bookbinding activity to create a small, handmade booklet. This publication will function as a working tool throughout the session: a space for notes, drawings, reflections, and plans, as well as a resource participants can continue to use as they develop their own gardening clubs. The act of making the booklet reinforces the idea of slow, collective processes and knowledge-sharing at the heart of community growing.
The workshop will also include small materials for participants to take away, including seeds, offering a tangible starting point for forthcoming projects and an invitation to put ideas into action after the session.
This workshop is suitable for adults only and is particularly aimed at artists, educators, organisers, and anyone interested in cultivating communal, creative approaches to gardening and care.
Biography
Founded in 2021, The Gardening Drawing Club is a series of unique events with a holistic approach offering free access to arts and horticulture in Britain. With monthly happenings, The Gardening Drawing is hosted in a broad range of locations, from art centres to community gardens and temples; the events range from workshops to talks and experiences. Veganic gardening methods are employed through The Gardening Drawing Club, advocating for gentleness and compassion while supporting seed sovereignty, racial, climate and land justice and reparation, biodiversity, and animal liberation.
The Gardening Drawing Club is a form of Seva and is on a shared mission to integrate the joys of gardening and drawing in others’ lives for individual and community well-being.
More abour the project: www.thegardeningdrawingclub.org
Follow TGDC on Instagram: www.instagram.com/thegardeningdrawingclub/
About the Artist
Johanna Tagada Hoffbeck lives and works in rural Oxfordshire. Her transdisciplinary practice is rooted in ecological awareness and collaboration, engaging with painting, sculpture, photography, publishing, horticulture, and participatory projects. Her work expresses care and tenderness, reflecting on the fragility and beauty of life. Johanna is currently an artist in residence at Oxford Brookes Universisity. Recent exhibitions include the Whitechapel Gallery, Kate MacGarry, Sommerset House, Nidi Gallery.
Website: www.johannatagada.net
Instagram: @johannatagada
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Creating Your Gardening Club is a new hands-on, participatory workshop that draws on artist Johanna Tagada Hoffbeck's experience of founding The Gardening Drawing Club and serving on a local allotment committee in rural Oxfordshire. The session offers practical guidance alongside creative tools for those wishing to start and establish a gardening club or growing community in a variety of settings, including neighbourhoods, schools, workplaces, allotments, nomadic and cultural organisations.
The workshop responds to the many conversations Johanna had with individuals seeking advice on how to initiate and sustain collective growing practices. It explores both the organisational and social aspects of starting a club — from shaping a shared ethos and working collaboratively, to navigating practical considerations such as access to space, materials, and ongoing participation.
Participants will take part in a simple bookbinding activity to create a small, handmade booklet. This publication will function as a working tool throughout the session: a space for notes, drawings, reflections, and plans, as well as a resource participants can continue to use as they develop their own gardening clubs. The act of making the booklet reinforces the idea of slow, collective processes and knowledge-sharing at the heart of community growing.
The workshop will also include small materials for participants to take away, including seeds, offering a tangible starting point for forthcoming projects and an invitation to put ideas into action after the session.
This workshop is suitable for adults only and is particularly aimed at artists, educators, organisers, and anyone interested in cultivating communal, creative approaches to gardening and care.
Biography
Founded in 2021, The Gardening Drawing Club is a series of unique events with a holistic approach offering free access to arts and horticulture in Britain. With monthly happenings, The Gardening Drawing is hosted in a broad range of locations, from art centres to community gardens and temples; the events range from workshops to talks and experiences. Veganic gardening methods are employed through The Gardening Drawing Club, advocating for gentleness and compassion while supporting seed sovereignty, racial, climate and land justice and reparation, biodiversity, and animal liberation.
The Gardening Drawing Club is a form of Seva and is on a shared mission to integrate the joys of gardening and drawing in others’ lives for individual and community well-being.
More abour the project: www.thegardeningdrawingclub.org
Follow TGDC on Instagram: www.instagram.com/thegardeningdrawingclub/
About the Artist
Johanna Tagada Hoffbeck lives and works in rural Oxfordshire. Her transdisciplinary practice is rooted in ecological awareness and collaboration, engaging with painting, sculpture, photography, publishing, horticulture, and participatory projects. Her work expresses care and tenderness, reflecting on the fragility and beauty of life. Johanna is currently an artist in residence at Oxford Brookes Universisity. Recent exhibitions include the Whitechapel Gallery, Kate MacGarry, Sommerset House, Nidi Gallery.
Website: www.johannatagada.net
Instagram: @johannatagada
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