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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We need more local producers to create a strong food network, in order to eat like Kings & Queens. This has been our mission from the start: to inspire people to become part of this movement.
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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
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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

We're delighted to announce the winners of our Abel & Cole cookbook competition.

🌟Congratulations🌟 to Anne May Close, Karen J Smith and June Saddington, you're our three lucky winners!

Please message us with your address and we'll get your new cookbook posted out to you 😀 ... See more

Do you have too much material in your #compost bin?

We suggest digging out your half rotted compost and bagging it up. Keep it damp, and by next spring it will have rotted down enough to add to your soil.

Leave a thin layer of rotted material in the bin to put the new stuff on – it will be full of #worms and other beneficial creatures.

As temperatures drop, keep the bin covered to retain as much warmth as possible. Take a look at our #composting guide for handy hints & tips: www.gardenorganic.org.uk/compost

If you find our information useful you could help us to continue providing this advice by donating just £2 to Garden Organic today. Please text TIPS17 £2 to 70070 to donate. Thank you 😃
#Fridaytip #composting #winterjobs #organicgardening ... See more

How's your #Monday going?

We would love to see pictures of your #autumn #gardens and #allotments. Please comment and share below...

#MondayMotivation #autumngarden #autumnalcolours

Honey tests reveal global contamination by bee-harming pesticides - Neonicotinoid insecticides are found in 75% of global honey samples and half contain a cocktail of chemicals.

Neonicotinoid insecticides are found in 75% of global honey samples and half contain a cocktail of chemicals

This week's #Fridaytip highlights how useful a good mulch can be for your #autumn & #winter garden.

As you dig up plants, and some die back, large areas of bare soil start to appear. Use organic #mulches to protect the soil and give it good structure for next year's growing season.

The best mulches are a thick, damp layer of straw, grass clippings and autumn leaves mixed together.

Take a look at our informative introduction to mulching. ... See more

Mulches are a labour saving trick which all organic gardeners can use. Garden Organic's Head of Organic Horticulture runs through different types of mulch an...

We've teamed up with Ebury Publishing and Abel & Cole to offer you the chance of 🌟winning🌟 a copy of their brand new cookbook - How to Eat Brilliantly Every Day.

If you love eating with the seasons, reducing food waste and whipping up creative, but simple to cook dishes packed with flavour then this cookbook is for you!

We have just three copies to give away, packed full of scrumptious organic recipes suitable for all the family!

To be in with a chance of winning all you have to do is like and share this post and comment #WIN below. ... See more

Neonics are still present on so-called 'pollinator friendly' plants in garden centres across the country.

Read our article highlighting the developments surrounding #pesticides in garden centre plants.

We need your help to continue to raise awareness of the threats to our #environment and vital #pollinators.

Text FFGO17 £5 to 70070 to donate to Garden Organic and make a difference today - thank you ... See more

How safe are garden centre plants? Sarah Brown unpicks the recent worrying research about pesticide residues in garden centre plants... In the last edition of The Organic Way, Judith Conroy discussed the issue of pesticides in Garden Centre plants. Since then, recent research from the University of... ... See more

A useful summing up of the issue of pesticide use, by Peter Melchett of the Soil Association

Following recent headlines and new scientific papers PETER MELCHETT of the Soil Association reports on the evolving dialogue around pesticides.

Our head of Organic Horticulture, Chris Collins has been out and about today talking to representatives of the National Allotment Society

Chris Collins talking to National Allotment Society reps and mentor about Garden Organic school programme. Lots of ideas to encourage future plot-holders!

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