By Mustafa Korel, Head Gardener At lushspace.io, we’re committed to staying on top of trends and innovation in the sector. We’re also open to changing our established practices when new practices demands it of us, especially so when choosing timber for jobs. Our sector is increasingly moving towards softwood for external projects, and I’m convinced for good reasons. This is a continual learning process for us, too and sometimes its
horticulture
25 May 2019
Pressure washing
Over the past several weeks, we’ve been experimenting with our new pressure washer and the results so far have been stunning! We’re familiar with it now and ready to roll out this service across Hackney & Islington. Booking couldn’t be easier: text or WhatsApp 07511 522 341 for a callback. FIRST TIME HAVING A PRESSURE WASHER ROUND? We’d like to tell you a bit more about what this service involves
15 February 2019
The Globalising Entrepreneur
By Mustafa Korel, Head Gardener In 2017, I started a HND in Business at Morley College and was where the spark moment for creating a horticultural social enterprise, lushspace.io , happened – though, I started the programme with nine, yes, nine different entrepreneurial ideas that I was working on. Soon, I realised that such a fragmented approach to enterprise would be counter-productive. As hard as it was I had to
2 October 2018
Reflection: Uwe Flick’s “Introducing Research Methodology” (2nd ed.)
By Mustafa Korel, Head Gardener This post was first published on PENZU. Reading through Flick’s ‘Introduction to Research Methods’ bolstered and built on, what I realise now, my limited pre-existing knowledge of research. While I have held positions that involved research – my previous level of research is not quite up to the academic standard that is expected of me. This could be a stark revelation, but as I have learned last year – accept criticism and especially from my
1 October 2018
Starting Unit 11: Research Project
By Mustafa Korel, Head Gardener This post was first published on PENZU. At last Friday’s session, I was very excited to read that the set assignment was about globalisation – there is so much interesting information out there at the moment, like how SMEs are responding to a globalised world both economically and politically (paywall) and how their innovation is helping to drive a global economy. While this is an exciting research field, it