Sydney now has its very own working city farm

Organic market farmer Michael Zagoridis is part of the Pocket City Farms team. (Pocket City Farms)

If you thought true working farms were only for the country, think again. Sydney now has its very own organic urban variety, Pocket City Farms, located in Camperdown, near a major highway on a former bowling green.

By Yasmin Noone
SBS
Aug 16, 2016

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“Our primary aim is to bring farming into the city and to create food as locally as possible… People can come past and see us growing the food and then come in on a Saturday to our market and buy the food. It’s a real instant connection.”

The new farm, which officially opened around six weeks ago (but took three years to get off the ground), is located near Sydney University, nestled in a side street off the Great Western Highway, and bordered by an art gallery, city park and small Portuguese museum.

The Camperdown Commons plot contains a 1200-square metre market garden growing vegetables, greens and herbs. There’s also a food forest, chicken coop and a 180-square metre area on the public footpath, currently under development, “with fruit trees and other edible paths that people can pick from for free as they’re walking past”.

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