We grow Hackney Salad on our Patchwork Farm, made up of five small market gardens in Clissold Park, Springfield Park, Allens Gardens and other patches on estates and private gardens - all in Hackney, North London. We also have Dagenham Farm in East London. You're welcome to visit or volunteer on the farms.
All our growing space is certified by the Soil Association - ours was the first organically certified food-growing land in London. In Hackney, we specialise in salad leaves. In Dagenham, we grow a far greater range of produce. Both farms also train new growers.
If you're interested in sourcing local organic food for your supper club or other event, contact Sophie in Hackney or Alice in Dagenham to find out what's in season.
Why do we grow salad?
Salad production is labour intensive and the leaves are nutritious but highly perishable - therefore it makes sense to grow salad as close to where it's eaten as possible. The wide variety of salad leaves we grow enables us to practice crop rotation, just one element of the organic practices we follow on our sites.
In addition, salad leaves are a high-value crop, so that gives us a greater chance of making the whole thing work financially.
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