Whether it’s welcoming guests to our courses or working with schools, Hen Corner is bringing together the country and the city, helping you turn your urban corner green.

Est. April 2010

Over recent years Sara Ward and her family have transformed their Victorian terrace house into an urban smallholding allowing them to have the best of both worlds. Nestled in West London, they are living the good life complete with 20 hens, three colonies of honey bees and a fruitful kitchen garden.

Whilst Sara and the family continue to expand their hands-on skills, they train and encourage others through their schools programme, writing, and series of courses that are run from Hen Corner throughout the year. Be it preserving, cheese making, bee keeping or bread baking, there’s always something new that we can learn.

More about Sara…

After a career change from city banking to working with charities in West London, it was the birth of her children that first caused Sara to ask ‘Where does our food come from?’ The pursuit of answers has taken her to farms, markets and cookery schools, she has learnt how to make sausages and cheese and produces a significant amount of the family food from her garden and allotment. More recently, Sara has trained in Carbon Literacy to specifically help others make sustainable choices.

Whilst she is passionate about sharing her skills through Hen Corner, she is also proud to be a Director of Cultivate London, a Bread Angel that trains others to bake and the project leader of Brentford Eco Garden at St Paul’s Church.

Sara has written a monthly column for Country Living magazine, presented at the
Country Living Magazine Fairs, written her first book Living the Good Life in the City and has been featured in many other magazines and on television.

‘In the large garden of her end-of-terrace house in Brentford, Sara Ward has devised the nearest thing I have come across to an urban smallholding, complete with fruit trees, raised beds edged with brick pathways, hens and a hive.’

Louise Elliott, Deputy Editor, Country Living Magazine

‘The interactive nature of what were doing made the course all the more memorable and fascinating.’

Natalie B, Heart
(Four Counties) Breakfast Show Host.