Walworth Garden Farm

It’s that time of year again and one of our favourite activities here at the Runoff…..sticking our noses where they don’t belong! From 6 to 17 September is the Open House London Festival, celebrating London’s housing, architecture and neighbourhoods by flinging open doors and streets not usually open to the public. We have a few suggestion for you and they are all FREE, and we love free.

Most Open House venues have friendly staff on hand to tell you more about what you’re seeing and there are often things to read. If you look on the website you’ll see some local bookable things, but I’m afraid you’ve missed the boat on those babies. The venues listed below are open to the public on specific dates. However, if you possess the audacious gaul to travel out of Greater Kennington you might find there are hundreds more free things to stick your head into around the capital. But we couldn’t possibly encourage that kind of behaviour.

International Maritime Association. Albert Embankment

London Fire Brigade Memorial Hall Vauxhall (we’ve been, recommended)

Walworth Garden Walworth

Lambeth Palace Library Vauxhall (we’ve been, recommended)

City and Guilds Art School Kennington

St. Pauls, Newington Walworth (we’ve been, recommended, pic above)

Walworth Garden (garden and buildings) – Walworth

Mission Kitchen Vauxhall

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You probably know about Vauxhall City Farm, on Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens. You may know about the newish Oasis Farm Waterloo, something of a work in progress on Carlisle Lane (Sadiq Khan visited there the other day). But did you know there’s rather a lovely Garden Farm just yards from Kennington tube?

Walworth Garden Farm is a charity and social enterprise which has been going for nearly 30 years (presumably they used to be based in Walworth).

They have very frequent events and courses, about gardening, beekeeping, herbal medicine and such like, or you can just pop in if the gate on Manor Place is open (that’s what we did).

It’s a real oasis, and very lush: