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A woman in between two rows of vines harvesting vegetables

Could urban farms help protect London against food scarcity?

A sprawling metropolis like London may seem an unlikely place to grow food, but urban farms could be key for

A sheep in Vauxhall City Farm

How Vauxhall City Farm is opening children’s eyes to the great outdoors

Vauxhall City Farm is an educational charity offering the children of London a break from city life to experience the

picture of the crops sustainably farmed by Growing Underground in the war tunnels such as pea shoots

Growing Underground: Clapham World War II bunker given new life as sustainable farm

Beneath the streets of Clapham, in a maze of disused underground World War II tunnels, thousands of plants are growing

Rare breed goats and lambs thriving at Wandsworth educational farm

A Wandsworth educational farm which supports boys with special needs has reared over 70 lambs and 12 rare breed goat

Vauxhall City Farm continues fundraising appeal during new lockdown

Vauxhall City Farm is halfway to its fundraising goal to keep the farm going during the pandemic, but the second

A subterranean mushroom farm could be coming to Croydon’s disused subways

It was shortly after Andrew Dickinson’s mushrooms were blessed by a vicar that they stopped growing altogether.  Mr Dickinson, the

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An afternoon tea of dainty sandwiches and delicate cakes couldn’t be more quintessentially English, and at Lancaster London this sumptuous

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