The excitement of Loughborough Farmers providing a Community Cafe at the Platform continues. It’s been a great success. If you have not yet been we will be there until Sunday 27 September. Above Tom and Moses at the DIY workshop, below Joy and Jason at the art and happiness workshop and Zeenat with her amazing Wish You Were Here lunch.
We know the road closures in Loughborough Junction are controversial but this Saturday we get a taste of how it might work when the P5 is diverted for the day and the section of the road between the Farm and Wyck Gardens is entirely closed to through traffic. Here is what we have planned for the day:
Loughborough Farm from 1pm
We are open as usual and we still need lots of help planting out our winter crops; again all volunteers welcome.
Consultation event from Pop Up Parks from 12 noon to 2.30pm
Pop Up Parks, James and Laura will be testing an idea for a small parklet on Loughborough Road. This is an idea that will work with or without the road closures so please come and join in and contribute your ideas for making Loughborough Road a better place for residents.
Over at the pop-up cafe at The Platform
We will be open from 12 noon to 9pm and our cafe chef Charlotte will have her usual healthy salads and quiches for sale for lunch; then in the evening there will be a range of tapas-style dishes on offer, a bar from our friends at local brewery Clarkshaws, and a special Loughborough Farm cocktail made for us from our other friends at Brixton’s Shrub and Shutter with a secret ingredient grown at the farm. And of course there will be non-alcoholic drinks available too.
And finally; local house historian Tracey Gregory is giving a talk at 3pm on the history of the houses in Loughborough Road (the section between Fiveways and Brixton Road) at St Michael’s Church, Burton Road, SW9 6TG as part of Lambeth’s Heritage Festival
A Loughborough Farm email would not be complete without a thanks to all our volunteers and the community for supporting us through our period at The Platform. Karen would like to thank the Harbour, Mosaic’s Michael and John, Lorna at Lambeth Hospital, Marjorie and everyone who supported the Wish You Were Here lunch on Tuesday. Special thanks to Zeenat for her Indian delights and to Emma and Louise for the Akee Saltfish sensation, and of course to our wonderful Maitre’d Charlotte.
