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

Join us each week throughout the rest of #summer for #WeedyWednesday

We'll be here with our top tips and methods of wiping out the weeds you don't want.

This weeks #weed is one that just keeps on giving - Bindweed!

We're sure many of you have experienced #Bindweed in your garden or allotment, here's what we suggest to banish the Bindweed! ... See more

Weedy Wednesday - Bindweed The second plant in our Wednesday Weed series is bindweed. Possibly the most persistent weed in the garden. 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 manage them. Organic growers re... ... See more

To celebrate Great British Pea Week @ Yes Peas!, we thought we would share two pea varieties from our Heritage Seed Library

British Wonder - a hardy, compact pea (60cm-1m) & exceptionally high yielding. Introduced in the UK by Taber & Cullen in 1890 and in the USA by W Atlee Burpee in 1904. It produces white flowers followed by plump green pods.

Old England - thought to have been bred by Kelways, est.1851 by James Kelway of Langport, Somerset and introduced in the early 20th century. Plants grow to 1.2-1.5m producing broad, plump pods containing 5-7 large, wrinkle-seeded peas.

Both of these delicious #pea varieties will be available to members in this year's Heritage Seed Library catalogue.

If you'd like to become a member of the Heritage Seed Library then you can join here... #greatbritishpeaweek #PeasPlease #peas ... See more

We've recently acquired a new addition to our Allotment Garden, here at Ryton.

Thanks to Waltons Garden Buildings we are now the proud owners of a brand new shed for our Gardening Volunteers.

As you can see our volunteers are very pleased to have somewhere keep their tools, pot plants and of course take a well earned break ☕

If you would like to find out more about becoming a Garden Organic #volunteer please contact dmaltby@gardenorganic.org.uk ... See more

We are joined today by pupils from Welford on Avon Primary School. Today they're learning about #Growing Around the World, including how to grow #Haloon - an #Indian variety of #cress.

They'll also be Bug Bingo plus many other activities for them to get involved in today!

If you would like to arrange an #educational visit for your school then please get in touch at: schools@gardenorganic.org.uk ... See more

Are you looking to grow something a little different?

In the last 50 years our #culinary horizons have broadened to encompass a wide range of cultures, including India, Chinese, South East Asia and the Caribbean.

Our Cutting Edge #Veg course will show you how to grow many of the vegetables, herbs and spices associated with a more exotic range of cuisines and introduce you to #vegetables that you may not have tried before.

We'll touch on different aspects, from understanding the challenges of growing non-traditional #crops and saving seed from exotic crops to unusual #herbs & #spices. You'll also get the opportunity to explore our Exotic Garden. ... See more

In the last 50 years our culinary horizons have broadened to encompass a wide range of cultures including India, Chinese, South East Asia and the Caribbean. However, it seems that our growing skills have lagged behind our cooking habits.

This course will show you how to grow many of the vegetables, herbs and spices associated with a more exotic range of cuisines and introduce you to vegetables that you may not have tried before. Much of this expertise has been learnt by working with immigrant communities around the Midlands, so the plants have a proven track record of growing in this area. A glasshouse is not essential, as many will grow outside without a protected environment.

The following will be covered during the course of the day:
- Understanding the challenges of growing non-traditional crops
- Exotic legumes
- Exotic cucurbits
- Exotic tubers and roots
- Taking lemongrass cuttings
- Unusual herbs and spices
- Making garam masala
- Sowing haloon
- Taking african kale cuttings
- Explore the exotic garden at Ryton
- Saving seed from exotic crops

You will be able to take home a variety of factsheets to help get you started. This course assumes some experience of growing, but does not need advanced knowledge. ... See more

Today's #mondaymotivation is all about the #fruity Ficus carica, known as the common fig. The fruit has started to appear on our fig tree which can be found in the Keder Greenhouse within the Allotment Garden. #fruit #ficuscarica #organicgrowing ... See more

We're ready & waiting for pupils from Christ the King Primary School to arrive. They'll be with us today #learning how to make paper pots & sow seeds!

If you would like Garden Organic to host an #educational visit for your school, then please get in touch with us at: schools@gardenroganic.org.uk

#education #schools #learning ... See more

Godiva Festival is almost in full swing and the sunshine is out again. If you're popping along come and see us in the #charity stall area and have a go at our activity #godiva #festivaltime #sunshine

It's still very warm out there for our prickly friends. A fresh bowl of water is perfect for them😀

Sharing this could save a hedgehog's life 💚

Do you live in the #Coventry & #Warwickshire area and do you #care for someone who could not manage alone due to illness, disability, mental health needs or old age?

Why not take a break and join us for our Thyme To Be session next Tuesday. You'll have the opportunity to meet like minded people and participate in our seasonal activity. ... See more

Do you care for an adult or child in the Coventry area? If so we'd love to you join us for an open day to introduce our new project, Thyme To Be.

Join us for this growing session at Ryton Organic Gardens. You'll meet like-minded people, garden and learn new skills together in a relaxing environment.

This summer session with include practical organic growing activities relevant to the season.

You will have the opportunity to look round our beautiful demonstration organic gardens, and hear about similar work we are currently doing.

Refreshments will be provided and transport and replacement care can be arranged through Carers Trust Heart of England (limited availability). ... See more

Just preparing the new harvest seed of the Golden Chard. What a pretty plant!

The "Amanda" sweet peppers are incredible. Look, another huge harvest of fruit this morning! Seed from the first batch of these will be available online really soon. 🙂

Here's Tam spending an afternoon this week deseeding the "Amanda" sweet peppers. We love the pepper harvest - we all get a huge bucket of peppers to cook with once the seeds are taken out!

Amaranth! The Leaf Amaranth plants are flowering well now in the tunnel and it looks spectacular; they're about 12ft tall. New seed from them should be ready in late November.

Bulking up our super tasty new bean Princess - in the field earlier in the year, drying in the tunnel - and the catflap we installed so that Thompson can get in and protect all our drying seeds even when the tunnel is shut up! ... See more

A fairly large Pacific Giant squash - 27kg!

Squash harvest at Real Seeds! Here's Ian bringing in the hugely diverse Treugerat squash population. This is the start of a dehybridisation project; all these different squash came from seed in one pumpkin Ben found at a festival in France. We'll select the best and breed them true over the next 8 years. ... See more

A few photos from a busy harvest week at Real Seeds: Ian cutting the hedges back, Ben sorting the Special Swiss sweetcorn, a visit by the local Permaculture group and harvesting enormous sunflowers. (oh and not to forget Kate practicing Hamlet with a Polarnaya Siberian Cabbage...) ... See more

We've been getting the squash harvest in now, and this is interesting - the one at the bottom is a Sibley that was harvested *last year* - yes, 12 months ago! Stored on the dresser in a cool room, it's still in perfectly eatable condition. Now that's what you can call a good-storage variety! ... See more

This is why chemical farming is so wrong . Great timelapse photography of what happens if you remove all the organisms from the soil.

Bioturbation with and without soil fauna.