The Paradise Co-operative

Paradise Cooperative was founded in 2014 with the aim of finding and utilising underdeveloped land for urban growing and community gardening. Our main site is Dobbins Field, an acre of land just opposite HM Wandsworth Prison, which we steward on their behalf. Once an overgrown and derelict site, we initially used rare-breed pigs to turn and fertilise the soil and begin the basis of our growing. The hard work of our volunteers has transformed the abandoned and overgrown site into a beautiful smallholding where local people can learn and laugh together. It is an oasis of green in the middle of our city, and to us it is paradise. We run community garden sessions onsite and run regular outdoor education sessions for local primary schools.