Church Farm offers weekly/fortnightly Farm Boxes to the local area and drop off points further afield. Because we are more than just a box scheme, one of the benefits of being a customer of ours is Farm Membership. This entitles you to free events at the farm and Experience Days when you get to see first hand where the food you receieve in your box comes from. One of our drop of points is at the Haberdashery Cafe in London every Thursday evening linking Transition Crouch End and Church Farm.
Our official Experience Day was held this last Saturday gone but a small number of very enthusiastic young Crouch Enders couldn't make it then so we were delighted to see them up on the farm the weekend before.
The day, lead by Richard Grimshaw, started off with a walk round the farm ending up at the pigs. The kiddies enjoyed seeing them so much that they even wanted to feed them. Then it was off to the Farm Cafe to indulge in some farm produce meals.
Sufficiently fed and watered we walked over to the rare breed Lincolnshire Red wintering pens to see a newborn calf. Then it was time for some real work. We made our way to the Kitchen Garden where all Church Farm Vegetables are grown. As its coming up to Spring, all the beds need planting for the coming year's crops. We were faced with a very long, very straight bed and 2000 broad bean plants to put out. Could we do it?
Well 2 hours later, alot of earth stained hands and clothes, alot of smiling faces, alot of dibbing, alot of compost and we had! Great teamwork by all those involved and many who left telling us they'd be back soon to see how their plants were growing. But of course they don't have to come back to see them, they should be in your boxes in May.
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