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

To subscribe & for more details
Just visit www.frithfarming.com
or email us at frithfarming@gmail.com ... See more

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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

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

David Coop: "It weighed a lovely 44kg, so we only just managed to lift it! As you can see, it made a truly impressive Halloween lantern, although it did take all night to carve it."

Jeremy Newson got 171lb with his and says "Hi Crew, here it goes—several photos to follow. Wonderful seed. Nearly 2 tons of squash and pkins off our patch. .. Our local hospice got £150 from guess the weight of the big pumpkin + £120 from the charity allotment jar." ... See more

Helen Pottinger broke her wheelbarrow 😮with her gaint pumpkin: "I planted one at my allotment and 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 but did get it into the boot of the car and then used a saw to cut it into quarters back at home. So far, it has made 7 batches of soup, 6 pumpkin pies and a pumpkin and parsnip casserole = delicious! The remainder has been distributed amongst friends and neighbours and was very gratefully received!" ... See more

Another good Real Seeds Giant Pumpkin competition entry - a very fine squash by Annie Sax:

Real Seeds Giant Pumpkin competition - from Julie Bissell: "My Giant grew up to 48 inch circumference, 44kg of squash - the best photo I could get was of a Hokkaido squash next to it (my cats refused to pose for long enough!)" ... See more

We want to share some of the Real Seeds Giant Pumpkin Competition entries. This is from Rich, who says: "here is a picture of my 6 foot son and a pumpkin we grew together "😁

Seeds! Lovely fresh seeds! Get your new season seeds now... We just wanted to let everyone know our new 2018 Real Seed Catalogue is online 🙂
There are a very few varieties still waiting to be tested but almost everything is packed now; we hope you enjoy it.
(Delivery times? We aim to get them out to you within a week of ordering, but we get really busy January-March, so if you wait til then it can take a little longer.)
http://www.realseeds.co.uk/ ... See more

A catalogue of the very best vegetable seed for home gardeners, with interesting heirloom and heritage varieties. Guaranteed better flavour or your money back.

New season website almost finished - just a few things left working their way through drying and testing. In the meantime we've been harvesting yacon. The first few packs are available now, and we'll be packing up more this week.
http://realseeds.co.uk/unusualtubers.html ... See more

Last call for entries to our Giant Pumpkin photo competition! Send us a picture of your Pacific Giant grown from our seed; the winner will be the person with the most awesome photo, and the prize is £20 worth of seed of your choice. ... See more