Visiting The Rooftop Farm in Wimbledon
- Jul 3
- 1 min read
Updated: Aug 14
Who knew …. A farm on top of Wimbledon Quarter shopping centre?? Amazingly there is!
Informative and interesting tours take place each month during the growing season where you can see container grown fruit and vegetables and the rooms used to produce oyster mushrooms. You can also admire, from afar, the farm rooftop beehives, moved further away from people for swarming season. (Purchase the honey in the Old Fire Station cafe on Queens Road.) They produced 298 jars last year!
Demonstrating organic gardening, companion planting and a circular economy, the farm is manned by volunteer gardeners. Many of the containers are repurposed from the shopping centre industrial skip, the mushrooms are grown on coffee ground waste from the cafes and the vegetables produced are supplied to local restaurants. It’s a masterclass in container planting in quite a forbidding space.
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