A day of events in collaboration with The Plateful Cafe to highlight the role food and cooking plays in different cultures. There will be a harvesting, cooking and eating session, a Q+A session with the Farm growers, a Farm 2 Fork session led by our education team, and tours of the Farm’s growing spaces.
Join us for an Alpona art session! Alpona Art is a traditional Bengali folk art technique. This is a wonderful, calm and relaxed workshop inspired by plants and animals on the farm. Adults will need to remain on site during the activity but don’t need to supervise (though are welcome to join in!).
You do not need to book this workshop. Please attend at the beginning if you can.
Join us for Farm 2 Fork, a cooking club for children aged 5-12 years old! Offering a greater connection to food and nature through harvesting, cooking and eating together. A free and balanced vegetarian meal will be available for each session.
Join us for an exciting hands-on session with exotic species, including birds of prey, reptiles, amphibians and mammals with Exotics Explorers, a mobile zoo based in Essex, who will introduce you to their fascinating animals and give you the chance to see them up close!
Alpona Art is a traditional Bengali folk art technique. This is a wonderful, calm and relaxed workshop inspired by plants and animals on the farm, ideal for children aged 7+. Adults will need to remain on site during the activity but don’t need to supervise (though are welcome to join in!)
Join us for an afternoon of den building! Let your imaginations run wild to create forest hideouts of all shapes and sizes.
Join us for Farm 2 Fork, a cooking club for children aged 5-12 years old! Offering a greater connection to food and nature through harvesting, cooking and eating together. A free and balanced vegetarian meal will be available for each session.
Help us make mosaics for the community farm (age 7+), and a drop in paper mosaic session for ages
A children’s drama workshop using the farm as our stage with the amazing Arcola Theatre team.
Help us make mosaics for the community farm (age 7+), and a drop in paper mosaic session for ages
Drop in and weave with us on the farm!
Little Red Hen - an interactive story workshop for children ages 2-5 years.
Join us for Farm 2 Fork, a cooking club for children aged 5-12 years old! Offering a greater connection to food and nature through harvesting, cooking and eating together. A free and balanced vegetarian meal will be available for each session.
A children’s drama workshop using the farm as our stage with the amazing Arcola Theatre team.
Wheely Tots are experts at helping preschool children learn to cycle and we are lucky enough to have their instructors at the farm for the whole day.
Have a go at some simple stop-motion animation with illustrator and animator Skye Baker. You’ll use natural materials found around the farm and some simple software to make an experimental animation.
The first of our childrens drama workshops with the amazing Arcola Theatre team.
Join us for Farm 2 Fork, a cooking club for children aged 5-12 years old! Offering a greater connection to food and nature through harvesting, cooking and eating together. A free and balanced vegetarian meal will be available for each session.
Ideal for under 5's this is an outdoor stay and play session with natural elements, water, sand, mud etc. Bring a change of clothes!
Join us for an exciting hands-on session with exotic species, including birds of prey, reptiles, amphibians and mammals with Exotics Explorers, a mobile zoo based in Essex, who will introduce you to their fascinating animals and give you the chance to see them up close!
Join us for a morning of learning and exploration, where you’ll have the chance to get up close to investigate a range of animal skulls and taxidermied creatures.
Get up close and personal with some of the farm residents and ask questions to farmyard staff.
Join us for Farm 2 Fork, a cooking club for children aged 5-12 years old! Offering a greater connection to food and nature through harvesting, cooking and eating together. A free and balanced vegetarian meal will be available for each session.
Make a beautiful tie dye tote bag to take home with you or bring a long a tshirt to transform!
Alpona Art is a traditional Bengali folk art technique. This is a wonderful, calm and relaxed workshop inspired by plants and animals on the farm, ideal for children aged 7+. Adults will need to remain on site during the activity but don’t need to supervise (though are welcome to join in!)
Join us for an afternoon of den building ! Let your imaginations run wild to create forest hideouts of all shapes and sizes.
Ideal for under 5's this is an outdoor stay and play session with ntaural elements, water, sand, mud etc. Bring a change of clothes!
Plateful Cafe is a volunteer-run charity in South East London offering opportunities to refugee chefs through a love of food: https://platefulcafe.co.uk/
On July 18th, we are delighted to be hosting a fundraising dinner for The Plateful Cafe. There will be two chefs for the evening Jafar and Maysoon from Sudan, as well as live Jazz music.
Tickets cost £35 + can be booked here:
https://platefulcafe.co.uk/events/community-dinner-fundraiser-2/
Join us for our 'Open Farm Sunday' on Sunday 8th June! With sheep shearing and heritage craft demonstrations, kids activities, market stalls and food!
