Surrey Docks Farm

Surrey Docks Farm Working community farm and education charity in London, SE16. Free to visit from 10am-4pm every day of the week. Farm shop selling seasonal produce.
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The Farm occupies a 2.2 acre site on the south bank of the river Thames in Rotherhithe. We have a lovely farmyard with a range of animals to meet. A small orchard, working blacksmith and wildlife area. Animal feed can be purchased in the farm shop (£1 bag), available from our volunteers during opening hours.

We’ve welcomed a few new faces from the waiting list into our Young Farmers Club, as older members have graduated to Gre...
15/01/2025

We’ve welcomed a few new faces from the waiting list into our Young Farmers Club, as older members have graduated to Greenagers Club this month. The groups have played games to get to know each other better!

Farm Produce were back cooking last week. The students were excited to use this new food mixer that was kindly donated! ...
13/01/2025

Farm Produce were back cooking last week. The students were excited to use this new food mixer that was kindly donated! They made delicious bread rolls to take home.

Big thanks to HG Construction who kindly replaced our old duck pond fencing for free before Christmas for us. The new fe...
08/01/2025

Big thanks to HG Construction who kindly replaced our old duck pond fencing for free before Christmas for us. The new fencing looks fantastic and the posts are secure once more!

Meet Apollo, Thor and Loki our three cheeky ferrets! You can see them every day in their enclosure when you visit for fr...
08/01/2025

Meet Apollo, Thor and Loki our three cheeky ferrets! You can see them every day in their enclosure when you visit for free. Or why not gift someone a ferret experience, where you can hold and then walk our business of ferrets! Full details on our website.

It’s great to welcome our students back this week! We deliver a range of training projects for adults with learning disa...
06/01/2025

It’s great to welcome our students back this week! We deliver a range of training projects for adults with learning disabilities to engage in all aspects of the Farm; including caring for the animals, growing vegetables to sell in the farm shop or take home to families and processing fruits to make delicious jams and chutneys!

Big thanks to all our wonderful volunteers and staff who have worked over the festive period! We only close three days a...
31/12/2024

Big thanks to all our wonderful volunteers and staff who have worked over the festive period! We only close three days a year and even then a small team are still onsite caring for the animals.
We’re open every day this week, pop in and see us and why not treat the goats, sheep, pigs and chickens to a bag of barley from the shop!

Happy Christmas Eve! Our work experience students enjoyed getting festive with the goats!
24/12/2024

Happy Christmas Eve! Our work experience students enjoyed getting festive with the goats!

Farm opening hours. We’re open all year round every day, only closing three days on 24th, 25th and 26th December. One st...
22/12/2024

Farm opening hours. We’re open all year round every day, only closing three days on 24th, 25th and 26th December. One staff member and volunteers will still be on site to care for the animals and we’ll keep the Thames path open for walkers. Please note The Barn coffee shop will close 23rd, 24th and 25th; reopening on Boxing Day. Call in and see us for last minute present shopping, fresh air and friendly animals!

Thanks to this GoodGym team who helped out on Sunday morning! Here’s what they had to say:“We were met on the farm by Co...
17/12/2024

Thanks to this GoodGym team who helped out on Sunday morning! Here’s what they had to say:

“We were met on the farm by Connor and were shown to our task which involved tidying, clearing and cleaning an area of the farm used to store wheelbarrows and equipment. We cut back brambles and cleared the greenery away. There were large animals crates which needed scrubbing with iodine and rinsing. While working away we had a brief interlude to help herd some sheep 🐑! The final part of the task involved sweeping the store and hosing the area down. It was a satisfying task. Our reward at the end was getting to walk the ferrets around the farm to give them some excercise. They were adorable! Finally to finish Connor made us a delish hot chocolate. We all had a fab time.“

Where’s Kiera? Our little pony with the biggest character, lost the roof to her stable during Storm Bert, so she has mov...
17/12/2024

Where’s Kiera? Our little pony with the biggest character, lost the roof to her stable during Storm Bert, so she has moved out to a temporary isolation pen.
A new roof for the whole stable block is needed which will last the strong storms, we also lost the shelter in the goat yard and have to pay over £2k to repair and improve everything.
This comes during a financial year where we have faced huge cost increases with no new income to match and are already facing an overall loss. Plus Storm Darragh seriously minimised the fundraising potential of our Christmas Fair causing further loss of income.
We know Christmas is an expensive time and how many of our visitors are also struggling, but we desperately need your support to raise a minimum £5,000 to help with our financial challenges. Donations will go directly to the new roof costs and then the day-to-day running costs to keep the Farm open for free for all.

https://www.givey.com/survivingthestorms

Thanks to our amazing community and awesome volunteers, we managed to pull off a scaled down Christmas Fair on 7th Dec o...
17/12/2024

Thanks to our amazing community and awesome volunteers, we managed to pull off a scaled down Christmas Fair on 7th Dec on a very wet and windy day! We moved everything inside and under cover, with indoor Christmas craft stalls, the youth clubs sold hot drinks and cakes, our farm produce chutneys and jams sold out and a few brave folk still came for their Christmas trees! Beautiful pine wreath kits were purchased, carols sung and we even had a mini bbq and pizza making, alongside mulled wine and mulled apple juice!
Thanks to all the businesses who donated fantastic prizes to our raffle and to Vacherin who donated some of the meat for the BBQ, their support and the many people who still came on the day meant we were able to bring in a small profit on what could have been a total wash out!
The Christmas Fair is a chance for all our projects to come together to connect with our community and celebrate together and we were so touched to see how many locals still came and enjoyed the day! Thank you!

Birthday perks! New Leaf students enjoyed a bit of animal time in celebration of one of our students birthdays! Then bac...
04/12/2024

Birthday perks! New Leaf students enjoyed a bit of animal time in celebration of one of our students birthdays! Then back to their gardening duties - planting garlic, sorting the gloves, emptying coffee grounds for compost production, weeding and choosing seeds on the laptop!

GoodGym were back on Sunday, the rain stopped any raised bed building - but didn’t dampen their spirits! The team were b...
03/12/2024

GoodGym were back on Sunday, the rain stopped any raised bed building - but didn’t dampen their spirits! The team were busy pruning the willow arch and prepping the long branches for our community programmes to use. Then they tackled the hedge by our new leaf garden, feeding some trimmings to the goats! Thanks everyone!

The Sunday youth clubs have been busy prepping for our Christmas Fair! They’ve made some beautiful tea light holders and...
02/12/2024

The Sunday youth clubs have been busy prepping for our Christmas Fair! They’ve made some beautiful tea light holders and coasters to sell and have created signs to promote their stall. Come and show your support this Saturday!

The Christmas trees have arrived! Premium quality Nordmann fir trees, three sizes available (4-5ft, 5-6ft, 6ft-7ft) sold...
02/12/2024

The Christmas trees have arrived! Premium quality Nordmann fir trees, three sizes available (4-5ft, 5-6ft, 6ft-7ft) sold at competitive prices. Pop in from 10am-4pm this week to purchase yours, or join us from 11am-4pm on Saturday at our Christmas Fair!

Learning lots of new skills and perfecting their DIY techniques. Greenagers worked together to build a frame which will ...
02/12/2024

Learning lots of new skills and perfecting their DIY techniques. Greenagers worked together to build a frame which will support logs they’ve inoculated with mushroom spores… so we can grow our own mushrooms!

Greenagers sessions have been mushroom themed this season! Including foraging on site, drinking mushroom tea and cooking...
02/12/2024

Greenagers sessions have been mushroom themed this season! Including foraging on site, drinking mushroom tea and cooking mushrooms on mushrooms! They loved trying a range of different mushrooms and used their foraged and dried King Alfred Cakes as fire lighters.

Address

Rotherhithe Street
London
SE165ET

Opening Hours

Monday 10am - 4pm
Tuesday 10am - 4pm
Wednesday 10am - 4pm
Thursday 10am - 4pm
Friday 10am - 4pm
Saturday 10am - 4pm
Sunday 10am - 4pm

Telephone

+442072311010

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Roger our beautiful Rex rabbit loves his coriander greens and makes short work of them! #surreydocksfarm #cityfarm #se16 #rabbit #rexrabbit #rabbitsofinstagram #rotherhithe #surreyquays #canadawater

Our guinea pigs love a variety of veggie treats. Mostly this comes in the form of ‘waste’ vegetables that we’ve grown on the Farm, but they also enjoy staff leftovers like these carrot peelings! #surreydocksfarm #cityfarm #se16 #guineapigs

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