News from the farm: Crop planning
October is the month for crop planning. We are agreeing prices and volumes for everything from carrots to coriander, for May 2025 to April 2026. Over 90 per cent of the crops in your boxes will be...
View ArticleNews from the farm: Forgive me the nostalgia
Tim and Jan Deane, founders of the UK’s first organic veg box scheme, came for lunch yesterday – taking me back to my induction into what, in the 1980s, was called the ‘organic movement’. I turned my...
View ArticleNews from the farm: Taxing the land
Should James Dyson (who owns 36,000 acres of land) or Jeremy Clarkson (1000 acres) be the beneficiaries of a tax break designed to help working family farms? In her budget, Rachel Reeves announced that...
View ArticleNews from the farm: Soil nerdery & compost evangelism
Before the recent rain, it was just dry enough to tidy and spread compost on our weed-infested artichoke, cardoon, and rhubarb fields. We have a range of machines that work between the rows, weakening...
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