Roots and Shoots Goes Wild! 2025

We're excited to invite you to Roots and Shoots' annual autumnal community event, Roots and Shoots Goes Wild!, on Sunday, October 5th. Join us to celebrate the season in style with wildly fun activities, engaging creative workshops, scrumptious local food, an enlightening talk and tour, and stalls filled with garden delights.

See highlights from last year's Roots and Shoots Goes Wild!

It's an unmissable year for local foodies, as Roots and Shoots' own chefs will be serving up delicious food using fresh produce straight from our kitchen garden. If that wasn't enough, local ice cream makers La Grotta Ices will be serving bespoke ice cream made from our own specialty fruit trees.

In the Wild Garden, get stuck in and help us renew our wildflower meadow with a bountiful bulb-planting activity supported by our expert gardeners, alongside the dulcet tones of magical live music under the oak tree and across the site.

Brilliant creative activities include a dried flower and mask-making workshop with our artistic florist, a herbal lotion-making workshop with our experienced herbalist, and a meet-and-greet-(and-draw!) with some fascinating visiting creepy crawlies. As always, our rockstar storytellers will return for a seasonal story and sing-a-long, and our favourite neighbour the mechanical dragon will be producing bubbles, roars and joy all day.

Nestled in the heart of the city, Roots and Shoots is a flourishing oasis that has transformed a once-polluted brownfield site into a thriving habitat for both people and wildlife. This year’s event features a special talk from our Director Linda Phillips MBE, showing us how it has developed over the years, telling fun tales of adventures along the way, and ending with a tour of the site highlighting how it all works.

Join us for a day filled with fun, learning, and a deep appreciation for wildlife at Roots and Shoots. We can’t wait to see you there!