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City Farms

There are nearly 60 city farms in the UK. Each one is unique but they share the following characteristics:

• They keep livestock
• They are managed by their local community
• They are open to the public and provide educational and volunteering opportunities.

Many city farms also grow food crops. Some have wildlife areas and a community garden too.

School farms

School farms are teaching facilities, often within school grounds. They vary in size but some are large, fully-working farms that bring benefits to the local community as well as the school.

They are used to link in to the National Curriculum across a range of subjects including science, agriculture, land use and geography, healthy eating, maths, literacy, animal husbandry and sex education.

A number of school farms are open to the public, either on a regular basis or by arrangement.

Community gardens

These groups are also all unique, but share the following characteristics:

• They all grow food crops and/or other plants, but do not keep farm animals
• They are managed by their local community or community of interest
• They have often been developed on derelict or disused land
• They provide educational and volunteering opportunities.

Community gardens are found in a variety of different settings, including public parks, school grounds, allotment sites, disused wasteland, hospitals and other therapeutic establishments, residential settings and as part of city farms.