Tuesday, 21 June 2011

A Note from the Grower


The last week has been a busy one. We’ve been planting out leeks, beans, calabrese, melons and summer lettuces. As well as harvesting

A Note from the Grower


Potatoes! This week we’re very pleased to announce the arrival of our first new potatoes! I was so excited that I put them in a plant pot and ran about showing everybody. I really must get out more….

They are available in our Farm Store and

Tuesday, 7 June 2011

A Note from the Grower


This week we have planted out over 500
courgettes, summer and winter squash and pumpkins.

A Note from the Grower


Hi there veg lovers, my name is Lucy and since January I’ve been working with Sam, under the watchful eye of our experienced grower Richard, to produce the glorious bunches of bright orange baby carrots that are in all the veg boxes this week! Growing early carrots is no easy feat,

Tuesday, 24 May 2011

A Note from the Grower


I’ve been away on holiday. For most people this conjures up images of a hot beach and bikini.

A Note from the Grower


Hello my name is Fanni and I have been working here at Church Farm for the past 6 weeks on the Horticulture Team. I am here on university placement as I am studying Horticulture.

Sunday, 24 April 2011

Culinary Crusade - Part 1


“I’ve dwelled on the all-but-forgotten ideas of people like Weston Price and Sir Albert Howard – ecological thinkers about the human food chain – because they point us down a oath that might lead the way out of the narrow, and ultimately unhelpful, confines of the nutritionism: of thinking about food strictly in terms of its chemical constituents. What we need now, it seems to me, is to create a broader, more ecological – and more cultural – view of food. So let us try.”