, and a new rooftop garden at Great Ormond Street Hospital to provide fresh food for the staff and patients.
All of our projects involve close collaboration with communities to help people transform their neighbourhood by sharing our design and gardening know-how. Whether it’s greening your street with flowers and trees, growing fruit and veg locally, teaching children and adults about healthy eating and sustainability, or simply having fun outdoors, it’s all about growing together.
Father Nature is a winner of the Lambeth Green Business Award, Lemos & Crane 'Growing Localities' Award, Lloyds Scale Up and Impact Hub Scaling.
The Father Nature Experience – Testimonials
"I love community gardening, I’ve been doing it with my family for a couple of years. It’s nice for everyone to get chatting and to see the results at the end.”
"It’s brilliant to see community involvement in Russell Grove."
"Good tenants achievements with the gardening. Well done to everyone who came and helped."
Crispin is the Big Daddy of Father Nature, or 'Fat Nat' as he likes to call it. Having lived in Brixton for over 20 years, Crispin's love of gardening is matched by his keen interest in his community.
His happy childhood memories of learning to garden alongside his mother Carmel inspired him to start Father Nature in 2005 as a voluntary gardening project for young and teenage dads and their kids in Lambeth in collaboration with St. Michael's Fellowship, a local family charity.
Since 2005 Father Nature has grown alongside Crispin's personal mission to get local people growing together and having fun outside. He now works closely with young dads, local schools, Lambeth council and a host of like minded educational and growing groups to make Lambeth a flagship for innovative and sustainable community gardening projects.
Paula has played an informal role in Father Nature since its inception. In 2014 she officially joined the Fat Nat team to help her partner Crispin meet Father Nature's growing admin needs and media interest, bringing her past experience as a professional writer, journalist and TV producer with her.
Paula also has a BSc in Integrated Health and her keen interest in healthy living informs all Father Nature's projects. Finally, as a mother of two boys she knows that gardening is an important salve to hectic city life and a great way for adults and kids to connect with nature, get creative outdoors, and left off steam! Paula has lived in Brixton since 1987.
Baba and Mr Badjie are part of the core Father Nature team. They are our planter building superheroes!
Krystal Russell
Krystal Russell is one of Father Nature's key volunteer workers helping to organise our planting parties, mailing lists and much much more. That's when she isn't studying Health & Social Policy at London Metropolitan Uni and holding down a part-time job. How does she do it!
It doesn't carry milk and it doesn't float but the Father Nature milk float can take up to 4 tonnes of earth, going 20mph at full throttle! Not bad for an electric vehicle that's 35 years old!
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Father Nature
making London greener, friendlier, safer, healthier.
We are a Social Enterprise ploughing back in 51% of our profits for the benefit of the community.
Father Nature Ltd, 28 Beverstone Road, Brixton, London, SW2 5AN
