Winter Solstice Festival 2026

A family-friendly, environmentally conscious community event to welcome the winter months!

Nestled within Camperdown Commons, Sydney’s beloved urban farm, Pocket City Farms, is welcoming winter with a family-friendly solstice celebration. Join us for fresh fair food, farm tours, workshops for adults and kids, live entertainment, and market stalls from local sustainability initiatives, businesses, and social enterprises. And this year, the celebration is extra special: 2026 marks 10 years of Pocket City Farms’ growing community.

The festivities kick off at the Camperdown farm on 20 June at 12pm:

• Welcome to Country and smoking ceremony (12:30pm)
• Workshops for adults and kids
• Farm tours
• Market Stalls
• Facepainting
• Lantern making workshop followed by lantern parade around the farm at 5:30pm
• Food, music and bonfire

Pocket City Farms is a charity and social enterprise, passionate about providing fair food opportunities and food security urban farming initiatives across Australia’s unused cityscapes.

For 10 years, Pocket City Farms and The Camperdown Commons has become a hub for the local community; to visit and enjoy the farm greenery, get their hands dirty volunteering on the farm, attend environmentally-minded workshops and learning how food can be grown regeneratively.