Kentish Town City Farm - a short history
Kentish Town City Farm is an educational and recreational project that developed out of the needs of local people.
Initiated in 1972, through the medium of an existing community group, it has provided animals, gardening space, horse riding and a focus for youth education and community work for thousands of users per year.
Originally called the Fun Art Farm and the City Farm 1, Kentish Town City Farm was the first of its kind to be established. As such it played an important historical role and acted as a model in the development of the City Farm movement as a whole.
With the establishment of a National Federation of City Farms in 1980, the movement has since grown, from those first tentative steps in the early seventies, into a national movement, with Farms and Community Gardens being established throughout the British Isles.
For more information about the National Federation of City Farms visit www.farmgarden.org.uk where you can also find a downloadable map of London's City Farms and Community Gardens (1.75Mb pdf).