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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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

Damning assessment by one of the UK’s chief scientific advisers says global regulations have ignored the impacts of ‘dosing whole landscapes’ and must change

We're focusing on Brassica whitefly for this week's #Fridaytip. Whitefly can survive the #winter on Brussels sprouts, broccoli, winter cabbage and kale.

These tiny, white creatures fly up in clouds when the plants are disturbed. Pick off infested lower leaves; the young #whitefly ‘scales’ live on the underside of these. Also pick off any cabbage white #caterpillars. #Fridaytip #whitefly

Photo credit: Ray Spence ... See more

Lovely video on BBC News of the inspirational Eunice McGhie Belgrave - a fantastic grower who we've had the pleasure of working with on many occasions...

The 'First Lady Of The Allotments' is 83 and teaching her juniors 'about life' and green thumbs.

Our #plant of the week this week is the #Sorbus #aucuparia 'Fastigiata'.

You can find the Sorbus aucuparia in our Cooks Garden, displaying it's beautiful red #berries. The #Sorbus is a slow growing columnar tree that enjoys most soil types and is ideal for the smaller #garden.

#plantoftheweek #Sorbusaucuparia #Columnartree ... See more

Did you know that next week is #Recycle Week? Get ready for the launch of Recycle Now's fun new video series showing you why recycling is worth it!

#RecycleWeek #recycling #waste #organic

#simpleswitch No.7
Let your lawn grow a little wild! The #organic lawn is made up of 1000's of different plants, not just grass. Leave them to grow long in some areas, to provide shelter and food for #pollinating insects – #beetles and even #frogs will thank you.

Just mow where you want to sit, or create interesting pathways through the beautiful long swaying grasses. #simpleswitch #organicseptember #ChooseOrganic ... See more

We hope you have enjoyed our #WeedyWednesday series as much as we have.

Our final #WeedyWednesday offers advice on how to harness the valuable #nutrients from #weeds. With care, you can compost them, roots and all.

Here we tell you how... ... See more

Weedy Wednesday - Composting Weeds Our final Weedy Wednesday article offers advice on how to harness the valuable nutrients from weeds. With care, you can compost them, roots and all. Here we tell you how:Composting perennial weedsMost composting advice suggests that only weed foliage is added to th... ... See more

These free classes from Southwark Master Gardeners are a great place to get tips and inspiration for how to preserve the food you grow in your school garden!

More info: http://bit.ly/2hilU3J

Do you have experience of saving #seed from #vegetables?

If you do, our Next steps in seed saving #course is just for you! This course is ideal for those who want to take their #skills in #seed #saving to the next level - focusing on two types of seed with more complex requirements.

Interested? Pop a space in your diary for 12th #October 2017, 9.30am-1pm and secure your place! ... See more

Next Steps in Seed Saving at: Ryton Organic Gardenson: Thursday, 12 October 2017 - 9:30am to 1:00pmThis is the perfect follow on from our ‘Introduction to Seed Saving’ course, or is ideal for those with some experience of saving seed from vegetables, who are looking to further their skills.The sessi... ... 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