Families get taste of great outdoors in Holloway

Children and families experienced the thrill of the great outdoors on Saturday despite living in London’s least green borough.

Freightliners Farm, in Sheringham Road, Holloway, held a weekend of camping, food growing and crafts for Islington families.

The weather held as youngsters tried bread-making, salad harvesting and tent raising.

Liz McAllister, chief executive of the farm, said: “It went really well and was a lovely weekend for everybody. We had a lot of positive feedback.

“I think it was a special thing for families to get behind the scenes of the farm, as it were. Living in central London, they can’t go camping all the time.”