The HSOF Garden Room Opening
Documentary photography; May 2025.
“A sustainable food school is celebrating the opening of its new garden classroom, furthering its goal to provide a ‘seed to spoon’ education for all of the borough’s children.
Last Thursday, the non-profit Hackney School of Food (HSF), which sits on Clapton’s Mandeville Primary School grounds, officially launched its new garden room.
Built from the rubble of an old playground area, the project has blossomed into a “fully productive” community hub, where visitors find themselves surrounded by a fruit orchard, vegetable garden, chickens and bees.
Flanked by Mandeville school pupils and her cabinet members, Anntoinette Bramble and Sarah Young – plus some feathered friends – Mayor of Hackney Caroline Woodley cut the ribbon on the new facility and joined one of its first food lessons.
Thanking the children for their involvement, Woodley dubbed them “ambassadors for a green and growing Hackney”.
First set up in 2020, HSF was spearheaded by Louise Nichols, who is the executive head of Mandeville and two other schools comprising the LEAP federation…”
Read more at the Hackney Citizen