Nature Connections
In our busy and increasingly urban lives, Nature is suffering from habitat loss, and we are suffering from Nature loss. And at TKT Nature Connections we are working to help mend this damage to Nature and humans alike, by re-kindling our love of Nature, through shared walks and activities around Parliament Hill Fields, and in Nature connection events in local parks and community gardens.
Reconnecting our city lives with Nature and the wild green world around us.
Healing Nature’s lost connections in our busy urban world.
Nature benefits, we benefit. Because in Life on Earth EVERYTHING is connected.
Who We Are
The TKT NATURE CONNECTIONS PROJECT has been co-created by members of Transition Kentish Town to help us live closely with the sustaining energies of Nature. And to help repair Nature’s lost connections in local Camden parks and gardens. It was launched in March 2021, with a small Camden Giving development grant for outdoor event equipment and materials.
We are part of the UK Transition Towns Network of local people joining together to move from fossil fuelled lives to lower impact living, and more sharing local economies. And of the growing ‘Restore Nature NOW’ UK movement, working to urgently repair damage to Nature from pesticide use, over farming and habitat loss, and to change the way we treat this One Green Earth, our Home.
In TKT Nature Connections we are getting together to:
Re-weave our connections with the natural world that have become lost and forgotten in the shift to fossil-fuelled, high-consumption city living.
Re-kindle our love of Nature and our understanding of the interconnectedness of Life on Earth – and our own place in it. And that what we do has consequences.
Re-cognise the essential role of Nature as our ally reducing climate breakdown and global heating. And in our wider Transition to co-creating more sustainable, enjoyable and sharing ways of living together today.
Re-pair damage done to Nature through human action by taking local action to rewild our local parks, gardens and urban green spaces.
TKT Nature Connections – how to get involved
There are all sorts of ways to get involved and to deepen our relationship with Nature:
Reconnect with Nature at our seasonal celebrations, that link us more strongly to the change and continuity of Nature’s seasons, and the pleasures and wisdom of seasonal cooking and crafts, stories and folklore.
Join one of our Seasonal Nature walks – around Parliament Hill Fields and in Camden Parks. Learn more about local Nature from local enthusiasts. And discover how taking a ‘medicine’ walk’ or finding your own special ‘Nature Connection Sitting Spot’ can improve your own well-being.
Share the wild harvest! – with Nature and each other. Re-learn old ‘cooking and eating with Nature’ skills, and ways to share and preserve Nature’s wild seasonal harvests.
Discover ways to enrich individual wellbeing by connecting more closely with Nature. And to make our time spent in local gardens, parks and natural spaces more enriching and enjoyable. Learn how to take a ‘medicine’ walk and find a ‘Nature Connection Sitting Spot’ to visit throughout the year.
Get crafty with Nature – making bird feeders, or insect and small song bird nest boxes, with partners like The Camden Shed. Or enjoy natural textile art and making beautiful biodegradable garlands and decorations at a seasonal celebration.
Get creative with Nature – at one of our Nature-based creative ‘taster’ sessions during a seasonal walk. Including nature journaling, poetry, art, folklore, or some seasonal land art. And discover how these can inspire our creativity, rekindle our love of Nature, and develop our Earth advocacy skills.
You can also join in with one of our shared sessions with Camden Green Gym, Camden Parks and Transition Kentish Town Community Gardeners for some ‘hands in the soil’ practical Nature care action. Together we can make our green spaces healthier and happier for Nature and for ourselves. By creating habitats and shelter for threatened species. And by planting spring bulbs, summer wildflowers and flowering and fruiting shrubs and trees to support pollinating insects – and link us to the pleasures of the changing seasons.
Read more about Biodiversity and Wellbeing.
For more information, contact us via the contact form.