Black Growth CIC & Brockwell Park Community Greenhouses Pilot a Local Food System Partnership

May 4th 2026

Michaela Crunkleton Wilson

Fresh From South London:

Brockwell Park Community Greenhouses (BPCG) and Black Growth CIC are piloting a new wholesale produce partnership in order to build a more local, ethical, and connected food system in South London. Throughout the 2026 growing season, Black Growth CIC’s market garden in Croydon will supply BPCG with fresh, sustainably grown produce for use in their kitchen and products sold in their shop.

By supplementing what BPCG already grows on-site with locally grown produce, BPCG can expand their retail offerings. Additionally, as a volunteer-powered, education-focused organisation, sourcing from Black Growth becomes a tangible example of local and ethical food sourcing looks like in practice. 

For Black Growth, BPCG becomes a valued wholesale buyer, enabling Black Growth’s journey towards self-sufficiency, and with it, the freedom to keep doing what they're here to do: build a world where all communities have equal access to land, good food, and a sustainable future.

Together, the organisations are learning how local food supply chains can work in practice: from production and growing, through to processing and consumption. Our shared hope is that projects like this one help normalise a future where a much bigger portion of the food we eat is grown much closer to home, by people who are part of our communities.

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“BPCG exists to educate people about sustainable horticulture and food. Black Growth CIC exists to increase access to it. Together, the two organisations are connecting access and education — experimenting with how the food system can be built differently.”

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A past collaboration project: Afro Diaspora Preserved.

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Please get in touch to find out more or get involved:

Brockwell Park Community Greenhouses is a community charity garden in the centre of Lambeth’s Brockwell Park. We want to create a garden where all can learn, play and grow together. 

Black Growth CIC is an intergenerational, Black British, female-led grassroots organisation creating safe, local spaces for the social and economic empowerment of the Black community within environmentalism and agriculture. We work with the global majority, local communities across generations through events and a regenerative market garden, uplifting Black growers and small businesses while tackling food poverty, land justice, wellbeing and climate change.