As well as our core activities – maintaining the animals and vegetable gardens where you can get close to nature – the farm carries out various projects that deliver further services, develop our ability to deliver services, improve the local environment, enhance community cohesion, act as a hub of social enterprise, and create greater financial independence.
The projects we run are largely determined by the particular interests of staff and response to need in the community.
Intergenerational
The work brings older and younger generations together at the Farm, building relationships between people who live and learn in the same community.
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BikeStart
Hire a bicycle every weekday for three months for the same cost as your usual bus ticket
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Big Green Challenge
Hackney City Farm was a finalist in NESTA’s Big Green Challenge, a competition for £1 million in prize money for community initiatives that reduced carbon emissions.
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Strawbale building
Our Straw bale building was built entirely by staff and volunteers at the farm.
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Hackney Yoga Project
Hackney Yoga Project is a pilot project based at Hackney City Farm, which has created a safe and respectful space for refugee and asylum-seeking women to practice the powerful and transformative practice of yoga.
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Beekeeping
Bees play a vital role in our food system. We have a few beehives which give us lovely local honey and which we use for teaching visitors about beekeeping.
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