Do you run a restaurant, cafe or shop in east London?
And would you like to serve fresh, seasonal, organic salad leaves or other produce that comes with zero food miles?
Contact our Hackney grower Sophie to see what's available and how we might work together.
We grow Hackney Salad on our market gardens in Clissold Park and Springfield Park, and small patchwork plots in Allens Gardens and Stellman Close - all in Hackney, north-east London. We also grow food at Dagenham Farm in east London.
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.
Why do we grow salad?
Salad production is labour intensive and the leaves are nutritious but highly perishable, so 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.
Hackney salad's journey from organic seed to nutritious salad bag: check out this wonderful film made by our former trainee Warami
Where can you buy Hackney Salad?
Most of the produce we grow is sold though our organic veg box scheme so the best way to guarantee a steady supply of lush leafiness is to sign up for that.
You can buy individual bags of salad from these local shops:
Eat17 Spar, Brooksby's Walk
Harvest N16, Stoke Newington High Street
Londis N16, Fountayne Road
Nature N16, Stoke Newington High Street
Palm 2, Lower Clapton Road
And you'll find our produce on the menu at these cafes and restaurants that prioritise local, sustainable food:
Esters, Kynaston Road
The Clarence Tavern, Stoke Newington Church Street
Hoxton Beach at the Clissold Leisure Centre
Eleven98 supper clubs