Secure Your Local Seasonal Veg!

Only last few veg boxes are available for this season.
Your first box will be ready on the 26th June -for 28 weeks until the end of the year.

Support your local community farm in exchange for nourishing veggies

We also have a few workshare spaces available for Monday or Wednesday 10am-2pm, in exchange for a medium box

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***Last chance only few places left
for our 2019 CSA veg box*** visit www.frithfarming.com to subscribe ... See more

Grow your own sustainable food business

Free taster session

Saturday 23rd March 10.30-2.30pm

Course ID: C3675219

OneSixOne
161 High street
Hull
Hu1 1nq

To enrol please call 0300 303 3464
Or visit the website www.wea.org.uk ... See more

Fresh garlic!! #permaculture #handpicked #fresh #chemicalfree #garlic #freshgarlic

Well this is exciting! 🍓 #strawberry #strawberries #chemicalfree #handpicked

Extra large bijou lettuce. #frithfarm #permaculture #horticulture #handpicked #lettuce #salad

Hello seeder! Cutting edge yang seeder from Korea. 😍 #frithfarm #seeder #yang #permaculture #horticulture #handtools #csa #seeding #cultivate

Fresh flowers 💐 #flowers #permaculture #horticulture #csa

Broad beans are thriving! #broadbeans #broadbean #beans #permaculture #horticulture #csa

Morning perennial’s 💐 #frithfarm #flower #perennials #permaculture #horticulture #csa

Morning salad view 🥗 #farmingthefuture #frithfarm #salad #oriental #pollytunnel #permaculture #horticulture #csa #sunrise

Tickets are already available to join the four day garden party of the year BBC Gardeners' World Live.

Book your advanced earlybird tickets to receive 25% off until 31st January 2018.

Explore the Show Gardens, book into a BBC Gardeners' World Live Theatre session, shop inside the Floral Marquee, meet the experts plus much more. Tickets also include free entry to the BBC Good Food Show. Book here 👉 https://www.theticketfactory.com/gwl/online/

See you there! ... See more

Tickets are available to join our four day garden party of the year. Remember to take advantage of our web offer on our website. Explore the Show Gardens, book into a BBC Gardeners' World Live Theatre session, shop inside the Floral Marquee, meet the experts and much more. Tickets also include free entry to the BBC Good Food Show. Sign up to our newsletter to keep up to date > https://www.bbcgardenersworldlive.com/visit/newsletter-sign-up ... See more

In need of some #MondayMotivation?

Plan ahead for the new year to spruce up and shape up your garden with our full day course in Practical pruning.

Learn everything you need to know to start the year with healthy #trees and #shrubs.

#MondayMotivation #January #NewYear #newgarden ... See more

Practical pruning at: Ryton Organic Gardenson: Thursday, 11 January 2018 - 10:00am to 4:00pmLearn about pruning a variety of small trees and shrubs, to keep them shapely and healthy. Pruning can sometimes seem overly complicated, so the aim of the day is to discuss the main principles and boost conf... ... See more

Robison Purple Pod is just one our new Heritage Seed Library varieties for 2018.

By becoming a Heritage Seed Library member you'll have the option to pick this variety plus many others from our seed list in December.

It costs just £1.50 a month to become part of our Heritage Seed Library, and is quick and simple to add to your current Garden Organic membership.

Our 2018 list launches just 3 weeks so let us know asap if you'd like to get involved! www.gardenorganic.org.uk/join-us ... See more

Are you feeling festive and getting into the Christmas spirit? 🎄🎄🎄

Our Christmas decorations course is filling up fast with limited places remaining.

Packed full of festive activities, you'll complete the afternoon with your very own Christmassy creation! ... See more

Make your own natural Christmas decorations at: Ryton Organic Gardenson: Thursday, 7 December 2017 - 1:30pm to 5:00pmNEW AFTERNOON SESSION Get into the festive spirit and have fun using materials from our gardens to make natural decorations. You will be shown how to weave your own willow wreath that... ... See more

Do you still have leftover windfall apples in your garden?

Provide hungry birds with food during the #winter months by making your own #bird feeder. A tasty treat for any feathered friends visiting your #garden.

Follow our simple step by step video - a great weekend activity for children and adults alike! ... See more

Can you help us by becoming a #Trustee?

Trustees are the individual members of Council, the governing body of Garden Organic.

We are now inviting applications for new #Trustees to join our team. We are looking for people actively interested in #organic #horticulture and #growing, especially those with any relevant skills in #charity and financial management.

Trustees are elected each year at our Annual General Meeting. We welcome enquiries from anyone who has the time, commitment and ability to work at a strategic level.

Being a Trustee is a rewarding role and vital to the future success of your charity. If you are interested in how you could contribute, and would like to know more about being a Trustee, please visit www.gardenorganic.org.uk/trustees.

Closing date for nominations is Friday 12 January 2018. ... See more

Make sure your #herbs aren’t standing in waterlogged soil. Most will stand cold but not persistent wetness.

Remove any dead foliage. Chives can be dug up and put in pots as they might continue to grow in a cool greenhouse or sheltered area. #fridaytip #wintergarden #herbs #organic ... See more

How to grow vegetables and herbs the organic way To prepare your organic growing area – whether it is a pot, single bed or a large allotment – see Managing your soil and Home composting. It will help you to create the perfect soil - that has nutrients and texture to provide life for your plants. The... ... See more

Michael Gove, Minister for the Environment, has committed the UK to backing a ban on bee-harming pesticides. "Where there is evidence that human activity is contributing to pollinator decline, we have a duty to act"... ... See more

Neonics - UK to back ban says Gove Michael Gove, Minister for the Environment, has committed the UK to backing a ban on bee-harming pesticides. "Where there is evidence that human activity is contributing to pollinator decline, we have a duty to act. Among the potential threats to pollinators are ne... ... See more

🌟New for 2018🌟
Here's a taster of just some of the new varieties that will feature in our 2018 seed list.

As part of the Heritage Seed Library membership, members can choose six varieties of seed plus an optional 'lucky dip' variety for free.

It costs just £1.50 a month to become part of our Heritage Seed Library, and is quick and simple to add to your current Garden Organic membership.

Our 2018 list launches in less than 6 weeks so let us know asap if you'd like to get involved. ... See more

Baskut Tuncak, UN’s special reporter on human rights and hazardous substances and wastes, gives his opinion on glyphosate and the impact on children's health.

Baskut Tuncak: A pending decision on Monsanto’s ubiquitous weedkiller is a crucial opportunity to protect our children from the toxic cocktail of pesticides polluting their food, water and play areas ... See more

This is how we get mixed-coloured Aquilegia flowers. The new seed will be dried, tested and packed ready for the new catalogue this autumn. 🙂

If anyone is going to the Royal Welsh spring festival tomorrow come and say hello! I'll be on the Landworkers Alliance stall (SC108 in the Smallholder centre) in the morning, then on the panel for the smallholders' question time at 4pm Saturday afternoon 🙂
http://www.rwas.wales/spring-festival/ ... See more

The bees are out in force. A little hard to photo clearly, but this is a big red-tailed bumble bee making radish seed for us. It's 'Green Luobo' radish and will be ready in September

Hooray! Germination of the beautiful "Gaia" cold-adapted soybean we are trying out this year. 🙂

OK, listen up! Here's a chance to have a *real* effect and help stop GM crops getting into the UK. DEFRA are asking what people want as part of their 'green brexit' plans. There is huge pressure on the government to allow GM crops when we leave the EU. Now is a chance to be listened to; unlike all those petitions, this is a proper consultation and they will take notice; you personally could have a real effect. Please, read the excellent page by GM Freeze https://www.gmfreeze.org/current-actions/keep-gm-out-of-the-future-of-farming/
and use the links they provide to tell DEFRA you don't want GM crops allowed in the UK. ... See more

The Government’s Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), wants to hear your views about the future of food, farming and the environment. They say they want a Green Brexit. Please let them know that GM has no place in that. ... See more

Bean germination - amazing stopmotion video

حد شاف إنبات البذرة قبل كده 😃😍
#كن_نبات

Last week we hosted a training day for the Gaia Foundation at our barn, teaching experienced growers to become professional seed producers. It was really nice to meet all the lovely people; the vision is that ultimately there will be a network of local seed producers feeding into regional seed hubs and seed companies all over the UK. ... See more

Real Seeds Giant Pumpkin Photo Competition - we are also giving an extra prize of £20 of seed to David Coop for heroic pumpkin carving! (44kg and an all-night carving session!)
That's it for this year; thanks so much to everyone who sent in their photos; you all grew amazing pumpkins and we enjoyed looking at them all. I hope you had fun; we'll do the same again next year, all you have to do is use our bought seed or your own home saved seed from the Pacific Giant pumpkin 🙂 (you did hand-pollinate them, didn't you?) Free, open-source, printable seed saving instructions are at http://www.realseeds.co.uk/seedsavinginfo.html ... See more

We have some winners of the Real Seeds Giant Pumpkin Photo Competition! If you remember we offered a £20 seed voucher to whoever sent in the most awesome photo; after much deliberation one prize will go to Helen Pottinger, for creative pumpkin lifting:
" it weighed in at 7 and a half stone - or 105 pounds. I didn't know how we were going to lift it but eventually came up with the idea of enrobing it in an old sweatshirt, turning it upside down - and then two of us were able to lift it into the wheelbarrow by the arms! We managed to break the wheelbarrow in the process . . ." ... See more