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

For this week’s #fridaytip we're sharing our know how on green manures! Now is the perfect time to sow green manures, especially if you have bare soil after harvesting.

These are plants which will improve your soil, such as vetch and clover. Their roots fix nitrogen from the air. Be sure to dig them in after flowering and before seed sets.

If you've got some spare time this #weekend why not take the opportunity to sow your green manures!

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 #organicgardening #greenmanures ... See more

Our volunteers have #harvested a bumper collection of colourful #vegetables today, all from our very own Allotment Garden.

A little tip for the weekend ahead, however the weather is set to brighten up! 😀

Due to the rainfall yesterday there is some soft ground underfoot today; please do wear appropriate footwear. The weather is looking nice going into the weekend!

BBC Countryfile Live opens tomorrow! Come along and find out more about who we are and what we can offer, as well as trying your hand at our seed sowing activity.

You'll find us located within the Wildlife Zone! #countryfilelive ... See more

BBC Countryfile Live opens tomorrow, see you there! #countryfilelive

This week's #weedywednesday comes courtesy of the Fat Hen!

Originally grown as a #vegetable, and now considered a #weed, the Fat Hen offers many benefits.

Fat Hen was eaten as a vegetable from Neolithic times until the 16th century when it was replaced by #spinach and #cabbage.

Rich in #vitamin C, it is still grown and eaten in North #India.
The seeds can be ground into flour, and it was grown as food for pigs, sheep - and hens! The leaves are a source of #ascaridole, an oil used to treat infestations of round worms and hook worms.

#FatHen #weeds #weedoftheweek ... See more

Weedy Wednesday - Fat Hen This week's plant in our Wednesday Weed series has the endearing name of Fat Hen. Originally grown as a vegetable, now considered a weed. In this weekly series, we take a quick look at common garden weeds. How they grow, what benefits they bring to the garden, and how to ma... ... See more

This week's #mondaymotivation comes from our Allotment Garden.

Our volunteers have been busy today picking a vast amount of
French Climbing Beans 'Pea Bean'.

We hope you've been enjoying the fabulous weather throughout #July. Here are some of our favourite #flowers from this month.

Our members experiments plants have been thriving following all of the recent hot weather ☀

We've taken a look at the comparisons of our Blooms for Bees #Dahlias, our #Tomatillos & #Flax from when we first started - there's been a big change!

How are your experiments coming along? Have you seen significant growth & changes?

#GOExperiments #organicseeds #bloomsforbees ... See more

Our Head Gardener Emma took her group of Gardening Volunteers on a day trip yesterday to Barnsdale Gardens as a thank you for their continued hard work. A fantastic day was had by all!

If you're interested in becoming a volunteer at Garden Organic, please email dmaltby@gardenorganic.org.uk ... 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