Gallery

Building a new raised bed with salvaged slate mantelpieces found on the abandoned allotments, September 2025
Our family area
2025 Open Day
Apple juicing
Drinking freshly squeezed apple juice
2025 Open day
Fire lighting at forest school
2 Volunteers begin clearing a new area
Willow shield made during a
‘Growing Together’ session
One of our many amazing volunteers
The pond
Growing Together session
Harvesting apples in our orchard
Cooking sweetcorn
& bread on a stick over a fire
Tending the veg beds
Enjoying food cooked over a fire at
one of our ‘Growing Hope’ sessions
A Mindfulness Garden group
Green woodworking at our 2024 open day
Green woodworking at our 2022 Open Day with the wonderful Leeds Coppice Workers
Apples from our orchard
A volunteer with some
beautiful ripe tomatoes
Fun at the 2019 Open Day
The sand pit
All ages find something to do at the farm
A volunteer doing the rounds with the mower
Picking gooseberries
2011
A team from BEES purging the litter
2009
Waste timber from wrecked allotment sheds & fences. Bonfire night was epic!
2009
Some of the many, many tonnes of junk we’ve removed that has filled 36 large jam-packed skips so far.
Members of ‘Transition Bradford’ (the organisation that HCF emerged from), some early volunteers and allotment plot holders, are helped by a council team to fill a bin lorry twice in one day, March 2009