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

Just one week to go! Don't forget to come and see us in the BBOWT Wildlife Zone

ONE WEEK TO GO! Lots of exciting new attractions await you at BBC Countryfile Live this year. Set in the beautiful grounds of Blenheim Palace from the 3-6 August, our action-packed show includes live arena shows, activities exploring nature, animal displays, debates, music, food, drink, shopping and more! It's not too late to book if you havent done already: https://countryfilelive.com/tickets ... See more

This week we've got a fruity #fridaytip for you...

Thin out #apples and #pears to get a perfect crop of good sized fruit. Firstly remove any diseased, damaged or unusually small fruits.

Then carefully reduce numbers to no more than 2 or 3 per cluster. You will get larger sweeter fruits as a result - ideal for the perfect crumble or apple pie! 😋🍏🍐🥧

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 #fruits ... See more

The weather is set to be fine and sunny in #Upminster this Sunday. If you're in the area or you fancy a day trip out with a difference, then why not visit Frank's Cottages Open Garden.

This delightful #wildlife garden will be open on 30th July
between 12pm & 6pm in support of Garden Organic 😃 ... See more

Frank's Cottages Open Garden at: 8 Frank’s Cottages, St Mary’s Lane, Upminster RM14 3NUon: Sunday, 30 July 2017 - 12:00pm to 6:00pmTony Gunton and Pat Allen are generously opening their organic garden – a wildlife garden in the Metropolitan Green Belt near Upminster. Frank's Cottages boasts A half-a... ... See more

This week's #weedywednesday plant is #stinging #nettle - fierce, invasive but full of goodness!

The common #nettle is abundant throughout the UK.
Dried nettles provide excellent food for farm animals with a high protein content - despite the stalky nature it is easily digested. The flowers are a good source of pollen and nectar for butterflies 🦋

Did you know...
Stinging nettles also make the perfect soup 🍵 The nettles contain high levels of iron, calcium and magnesium & cooking will destroy the sting!

#weedywednesday #nettles #weeds #stingingnettle ... See more

On 3rd August we'll be heading off to be part of the 2017 BBC Countryfile Live show.

You'll find us located within the Berks, Bucks and Oxon Wildlife Trust - BBOWT Wildlife Zone alongside our Oxfordshire Garden Organic Master Composters.

Don't miss out on this action-packed four-day show, we look forward to seeing you there! ... See more

BBC Countryfile Live is delighted to be returning to the spectacular grounds of Oxfordshire’s historic Blenheim Palace from 3 - 6 August 2017.

We thought we'd share something bright & beautiful for today's #mondaymotivation.

The stunning Comma #Butterfly can be seen here taking a little rest upon an #Echinacea flower.

If you run, or are part of a community garden or group like Caldmore Community Garden, then you may be interested in one of our courses, held here at our gardens 🌿

Take a look at what we have to offer here...
http://www.gardenorganic.org.uk/our-courses ... See more

Yesterday we visited Garden Organic and took part in their excellent "Attracting Wildlife to Your Garden" course. While there, we learnt about this amazing bumblebee project - have a look at their website and become one of its contributors! ... See more

Our Sustainable Communities Manager, David Garrett was in #Cumbria on Saturday to kick start the first #volunteer training session with our brand new Master Composters project.

A great day was had by all!
#GetComposting #composting #mastercomposters #cumbria ... See more

We had a fantastic training session with Garden Organic today to kick off our Master Composter project.

Nine volunteers were given training on all things compost and left the day eager to share what they have learnt in their communities and help people across Cumbria to #GetComposting!

Watch them learning how to put together all sorts of different compost bins, starting with the Green Johanna... ... See more

Ongoing RHS trials reveal that #organic #slug pellets perform as well as toxic synthetic chemical ones – especially on #hostas.

This is good news for organic growers...

RHS trials - organic slug pellets perform better than those with toxic metaldehyde Ongoing RHS trials reveal that organic slug pellets perform as well as toxic synthetic chemical ones – especially on hostas. This is good news for organic growers. This two year scientific study aims to identify more… ... See more

Follow our 3 step #fridaytip holiday plan for safekeeping of #vegetables and #flowers in your absence.

#Weed, then #water, then #mulch. This will keep the soil moist in your absence. Lawn mowings make an excellent mulch, feeding nitrates into the soil. ... See more

We are really pleased to release our new seed packaging today! We decided a new corporate image was long overdue.

For the last day of #seedweek we'd like to talk about the Open Source Seed Initiative.

Patents & licenses on seed have spread to many parts of the world. Soon, farmers and gardeners may be unable to do anything more than rent seeds from the companies who control them. Already, the purchase of many seeds in the U.S. by a farmer is actually a one-time rental of the seed for a single cropping season. The license prevents farmers from saving, replanting, breeding, and sharing seed that has been rented, not purchased. Even plant breeders are prohibited from using these seeds to improve the crops. These legal restrictions benefit a few companies but threaten the food security of our societies.

Open source seed is seed of a plant variety the genetics of which cannot be restricted by patents or other intellectual property rights. Originally developed for computer software, the open source idea makes something like computer code, or seeds, freely available for use, and makes sure it stays freely available. The material is placed permanently in the public domain. It can still be modified, shared, bought, sold, and reproduced. Some people might may choose to improve the material to make something new. But the original material, and any derivatives must remain free for others to use forever, and cannot be restricted through patents and licenses.

You can read more about open source seed on the OSSI website below, or on our website at Real Seeds here: http://www.realseeds.co.uk/ossi.html ... See more

Free the Seed!

It's #seedweek! Read about the grassroots #seedsovereignty movement of across the UK and Ireland.

"Only 3 corporations sell 75% of the worlds seed; if we all start sowing open source, organic seed, we can grow a democratic food system." David Price, Seed Cooperative, Lincolnshire, UK

https://spark.adobe.com/page/TPzSXT2LOg0bB/?fbclid=IwAR0p2U0IevkBfVcswO-ba0r2PbF-AUZSeWqYAFPwuiXoHNE-I5JgMnhDFgs ... See more

New Seed envelopes in action! All running smoothly now after only a few adjustments: Our Ballard Brown Bag Seed Packing Machine from the 1880s. This is the first trial run of our new Art Nouveau paper envelopes, custom manufactured for us as part of our drive to reduce plastic packaging. ... See more

Exciting parcel from USA! First trial batch of custom-made paper seed envelopes for our 1880's "Ballard Brown Bag Seed Packing Machine"! Don't they look fine? Bottom picture shows the back when closed & opened - the green stripe is the latex stickum to hold the flap shut.
Next step is to test them in both our envelope printer and the packing machine.
(they did unfortunately use a draft copy of the artwork rather than the final version, but that's why you get trial runs done rather than just ordering 100,000 👍 ) ... See more

Great to see everyone at Newport Seedy Saturday today. thanks to everybody who came ; hopefully we'll see you all again next year with loads of home saved seed 🙂

Just getting ready for our own Seedy Saturday here in Newport. Anyone local, see you at the Tabernacle Chapel vestry (opposite Long Street carpark) 10am to 1pm 🙂

We got our latest shipment of seed from Italy yesterday, and Kate noticed the boxes on the pallet were now labelled in English. Read the small print 🙂

Are you part of a community seed bank project? The Community Seed Banks Academy may be able to support you with training, information and exchanges. They currently have a call out for applications.

Hopefully you're all enjoying the beautiful weather. This is just a reminder not to get *too* optimistic about sowing just yet.

Remember, in most of the country soil temperatures outdoors won't get above 7 or 8 degrees C until into March. Realistically beetroot, carrots, parsnips etc will just tend to sit and linger in cold soil - even allowing for the fact that we are very likely to get another cold snap.

We find that delaying sowing until late March or into April gives much better results, with later sown crops coming on quicker and more able to outgrow slugs & other pests.

Similarly, sowing indoors on a windowsill may be very tempting, but remember that your crops will need warmth *and* light once they're up, so make sure you'll have somewhere suitable for them to grow on. We've sown our peppers and aubergines in a heated propagator, they'll go out into an unheated greenhouse insulated with bubblewrap, but we'll bring them indoors overnight if the weather is particularly cold. Tomatoes will go into the propagator this week.

My main exceptions to the 'don't sow too early' rule are onions (need a little heat to germinate but then will stand any amount of UK- level cold) and peas which you can start in modules or trays and then put out as soon as they're an inch or so high. Again they'll happily sit through frosts. I'm going to sow my new favourite Jessy sugar snap peas today 🙂

http://www.realseeds.co.uk/germination.html ... See more

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