Our Garden

Discover our multi-faceted community garden

We have a beautiful community garden where volunteers from our local community grow fruit, vegetable and lots of flowers. The garden has been part of the farm since 2017 and is growing bigger and more beautiful every year. In 2020 we added our glasshouse.

In 2020 we were selected as the southern regional winner of Cultivation Street’s Community Gardens of the year. Which is brilliant recognition for all the hard work so many people put into making our garden a beautiful and thriving space for our community and for nature. In 2021 we were shortlisted for Open House London - Open Spaces Stewardship Award.

Main garden

The main community garden was cleared in 2017 by a group of volunteers and has been evolving and growing ever since. It has a pergola and spaces to sit and enjoy the plants and wildlife, as well as beds, 2 greenhouses and lots of space dedicated to growing stock both for the gardens and for selling.

Cedar glasshouse

The cedar greenhouse is the latest addition to our garden. It was completed in 2020 and immediately became one of the most loved spaces. It been used for theatre recitals, workshops, garden work and to protect our seedlings and garden team from the cold.

Herb garden

In 2020 some of spaces outside were converted into a sensory herb garden with separate beds for smell, taste, sight and touch, which the children enjoy very much. Pallets were repurposed to create a fence, and a bench has recently been added.

Wild flower spaces

In 2019, we expanded our garden beyond the gates and turned the abandoned and overgrown space outside into an ever growing number of wildflower beds. This is a haven for bees and all other forms of wildlife, as well as a fun space for the kids - with a mud kitchen and pallet house - and a feast for the eyes in Spring.

Raised beds

The main garden has 10 raised beds built by our volunteers used to grow vegetables and generally experiment with growing in a natural manner, trying out crop rotations, companion planting and any and every natural remedy we can find for slugs!