Squash Liverpool

Our annual seed share is a really important event in the Squash growing year. We’re passionate about seeds. We’ve been building the Toxteth Seed Library since 2010 – a fundamental element of our 100 Year Vision for Windsor Street and neighbourhood. On Sunday 27th September from 11-2pm, come and meet the Squash gardeners, who are the seed keepers and caretakers of this great legacy.

Help clean, sort and pack seeds after the summer’s growth. Come and talk about how the heatwaves have affected us all this year and how together we can face and navigate the climate crisis. Draw and paint seeds and decorate seed packets.

Drop-in. Free / by donation to the upkeep of Toxteth Seed Library.

Farewell summer...

May:
1. Beltane sunset
2. Planting squash & cucumber seeds
3. May Day stick dance led by Maxine
4. May Day street frolics
5. Street Maypole
6. Blackbird in elder tree
7. Elderflower altar

June:
8. Squash & cucumber growing
9. Summer open garden
10. Summer Solstice Night Walk - oak check-in
11. Night Walk across Prinny Park
12. Palestinian Squash plant on night walk by Mersey
13. In the night allotment
14. Solstice Night Walk by the river
15. Summer Solstice dawn breakfast
16. Mushroom talk with Jackie, Jo & cee-cee

July:
17. Squash flowering

August:
18. Lughnasadh altar
19. Lavender wand making
20. Squash are grown

Thankyou to everyone, to the land, the plants, the growth, the sadness, the joys, the summer. To the magic.

Thankyou to the squash & cucumber seeds gifted by Exeter Seed Bank (ESB) & Petra Mansour from the West Bank, Gaza. Their growth has been woven into our summer. Thankyou.

Photos by Jordan, Judy & Clare

This Autumn Equinox eve on Wednesday 23rd September we’re hosting our 11th annual Harvest Auction Fundraiser!

Come along for our legendary, magical eve of comedy, fun and togetherness, win some locally grown and made harvest delights, and help raise funds for local charity Habibti Liverpool, Squash's Soup-it-Forward & Kuumba Imani community hub's roof repairs.

Cafe open from 5pm. Auction from 6pm.

There's already rumors of some secret Sefton Pk apples, Wallasey walnuts, Edi's special cheesecake, a vegan feast by a personal chef, a Mattas & a Windmill hamper & elderberry elixir...all up for grabs!!! V.special items only available on Auction night!!

Growers, foragers, cooks, bee-kepers, craft-folks, bakers - we would love donations of preserves, ferments, honey, bakes, harvest or food-related crafts plus home or allotment-grown fruit & veg.

Donations can be dropped off at Squash on Saturday 19th, Sunday 20th or Tuesday 22nd September between 10am and 4pm.

Thankyou so much x

Illustration / graphics Jordan Richard Hau

It's 3 weeks till the Harvest Auction Fundraiser on Wednesday 23rd September!

Growers & cooks! We need you!

Donations of preserves, ferments and of course home or allotment-grown fruit & veg (if you still have in mid September!) can can be dropped off at Squash on Saturday 19th, Sunday 20th or Tuesday 22nd September between 10am and 4pm.

Thankyou so much x

We're raising funds for
- Habibti Liverpool who support the medical staff and children at Al Sabeen Hospital, in Sanaa, Yemen.
- Squash’s own ‘Soup it Forward’ initiative, making sure neighbours in need can eat free in the Squash cafe, especially going into the colder months.
- Kuumba Imani Cultural Hub's roof repairs

Please share and get in touch for more info! [email protected]

Illustration / graphics Jordan Richard Hau

Saturday 1st August 11-2 - Harvest Power: our Eco Open Day & Lughnasadh / Lammas; the Gaelic fire festival marking the grain & fruit harvest - the first harvest of the year. We’re coming together on Windsor Street to consider the past and future traditions of land, food, community, energy and place:

- Come and make and taste flatbread with Edi

- take a Squash building tours with architect and co-founder of People Powered Retrofit Marianne Heaslip People Powered Retrofit

- Visit the Travelling Power Station that centres fun, game playing, reflection, conviviality and care as crucial to the future of energy - with artist Josh

- Add to the Lughnasadh altar with artists Tabitha & Clare

- Visit the Co-Labouring with Soil exhibition at our community garden

Every Saturday is Sourdough Saturday at the Squash cafe – loaves and sweet bakes on sale from 10am!

Big thanks to Two Up, Two Down, Zero Carbon Liverpool and the University of Manchester. Two Up Two Down
Zero Carbon Liverpool City Region

Graphics Jordan Richard Hau

Saturday 1st August 11-2 - Lughnasadh / Lammas; the Gaelic fire festival marking the grain & fruit harvest - the first harvest of the year - we’re coming together on Windsor Street to consider the past and future traditions of land, food, community, energy and place:

Come and make and taste flatbread with Edi

Squash building tours with architect and co-founder of People Powered Retrofit Marianne Heaslip

Visit the Travelling Power Station that centres fun, game playing, reflection, conviviality and care as crucial to the future of energy - with artist Josh

Add to the Lughnasadh altar with artists Tabitha & Clare

Visit the Co-Labouring with Soil exhibition at our community garden

Every Saturday is Sourdough Saturday at the Squash cafe – loaves and sweet bakes on sale from 10am!

Big thanks to Two Up, Two Down, Zero Carbon Liverpool and the University of Manchester.

Next up... Thursday 30th July 6-8pm for....

- climate emergency stand up with
- solstice reflections & street nature drawing
- elderflower & rose cordial fizz we made together at the May summer night session
- delicious food
- Soup it Forward fundraiser

Let's tend the future together, at home on the 100year street.




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It's looking like tomorrow eve is the hottest time of this current heatwave - 35c+.

We can't put our volunteers & staff under that strain, or expect you to travel here when it's so hot.

So - we've made the decision to cancel tomorrow evenings summer night session.

Let's work out another time for solstice reflections & street nature drawing when it's cooler. And times for considering what we can do together about the climate crisis.

The next Squash Summer Night then is Thursday 30th July 6-8pm when rumour has it there'll be climate emergency stand up & swing singing!

We'll save the elderflower & rose cordial we made in community at the May summer night session.

Squash Summer Night - last Thursday's of the month.

It's forecast 33 degrees+ this Thursday. From 6-8pm, let's get the deckchairs out, cool down with an iced elderflower fizz*, listen to some gentle summer tunes, reflect together on the summer solstice through nature drawing and consider how climate change is contributing to increasing temperatures.

*we'll be tasting the elderflower & rose cordial we made in community the last summer night session , see pics.

Café & shop open for tasty summer food x Free soup (or maybe something cooler) if you need x

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SOLIDARITY SOLSTICE
SUNDAY 21ST JUNE 2026
4.30AM – 7.30AM AT SQUASH

Start the longest day of the year with an early, gentle community gathering honouring the people, lands & nature of Palestine.

Join us & for:

Solstice fire
Simple breakfast
To watch the sun rise together
Solidarity
Ritual planting
Sip Windsor St elderflower cordial
Rest
Song
Listening
Gentle movement

Please bring something to add to the communal altar & breakfast table (please note Squash is vegetarian & alcohol-free).

Hope Street Harmonies choir will be sharing solstice songs at 7am.

Everyone is welcome. Free/by donation.

Collecting donations for the Palestine Local Seed Bank, part of the Union of Agricultural Work Committees to support their vital work restoring and protecting remaining seed sources in Palestine. Via our friends

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