An absolutely lovely place with gardens and an arboretum to walk through - the trees are lovely in summer but downright gorgeous in the autumn. There's a lovely cafe to relax in afterwards and since there's over eight miles of woodland [more...]

If you want to get up close and personal with London, there's only two ways to do it - on foot or on two wheels - and that's where the London Bicycle Tour [more...]

Crane Park Island Nature Reserve is a haven for all kinds of rare and common wildlife in meadows, scrubland and reedbeds. There are marked paths round [more...]

Check out one of London's largest farmer's markets, with a good range of organic produce. Notting Hill Farmer's Market is tucked away in the carpark behind [more...]

At Deen City Farm you'll find many rare breeds of familiar farm animals like cows, goats, pigs and sheep - but you'll also find more unusual animals, such as [more...]

Brooks Farm is inside Skeltons Lane Park in Leyton. It's a semi-working farm, so what's going on changes with the time of year - but with traditional breeds of [more...]

Mudchute Park & Farm is not just the biggest city farm in London - it's the biggest in the whole of Europe. Here, you'll find 31 acres of open space. In addition [more...]

This city farm has everything you'd expect in the way of animals, but also runs healthy cooking and dairying workshops, has three themed gardens and is participating in a project about endangered antelopes from Russia. You can help to [more...]

Stepney is home to Stepping Stones Farm, where you'll find a wonderful mixture of animals - everything from pigs and sheep to ducks, geese and chickens, [more...]

...and a moo moo there - in this case, the moo moo is Jessie the Jersey cow and the 'there' is Wellgate Community Farm where she lives with Jasmine [more...]

At the London Wetland Centre you can watch an astonishing range of birds and animals. You can do it the hard way, by walking the paths through the centre and by waiting in one of the specially designed hides - or the easy way, by [more...]