Stepney City Farm is a working, educational farm, aiming to improve lives through farming.
The Farm gives children and adults a chance to meet farm animals, learn how to grow food and try out arts and crafts. Every Saturday, they host a popular Farmer’s Market. The Farm provides a welcoming green space to bring together their diverse community, and cultivate wellbeing through high-welfare, environmentally-sustainable farming practices.
Stepney City Farm have been managing their food growing as a social enterprise since 2017, with the aim of developing production and sales to the point of financial sustainability.
Through the Just FACT funding, the Farm recruited two sylheti-speaking Food Growers to explore the impact on productivity and potential financial break-even point between input and output. The project also explored how food growing can better meet local need, by learning from and including people with their own experience of traditional farming and growing techniques.
Find out more about food growing at Stepney City Farm on their website. You can follow them on Twitter and Instagram.
