Seedlings 🌱 #frithfarm #seedlings #permaculture #horticulture #csa #salad #birdseyeview

What a chore but what satisfaction! An afternoon well spent getting the rest of the beds lined out, now just to get some veggies in. #frithfarm #farmingthefuture #csa #permaculture #horticulture #cultivation ... See more

Strawberries are in flower 🍓. #frithfarm #farmingthefuture #strawberries #strawberry #inbloom #inflower #horticulture #permaculture #csa

Blooming nettle! #nettle #inbloom

A day well spent at Humber street vegan market today. The place was packed with like-minded people and it was great to hear such a positive response from people about local farming. Hopefully, you managed to catch us and some of our produce, if not watch this space for more markets in the future. ... See more

Plenty of wonky carrots here at the farm.

Billions of pounds of perfectly good produce are being wasted simply for being the wrong shape, color, and size. But Imperfect has a great solution!
www.imperfectproduce.com
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Out of your pantry and into your garden - Millie Ross shows you how to grow black beans and chillies in your backyard.

Birdseye view of the farm

We spent the day up in the northeast, experiencing other CSA's and organic farming practices. We had a walk around Nafferton farm, showing us their research on organic methods vs conventional methods. We finished the day with a presentation documenting the evidence that organic foods were higher in antioxidants and omega fatty acids, while been much lower in carcinogens like cadmium. It was the positive affirmation we needed, a real buzz around small-scale organic farming is building. ... See more

We've made a film describing the work we do with our producer and distributor members. We launched the film on Saturday at the Land and Food Forum and are thrilled to be able to share it with you now..... Give it a watch, then share it across your social networks! Thanks to the lovely Black Bark films for their amazing work. ... See more

Join us next month to learn how to attract #wildlife such as #frogs, #hedgehogs, #ladybirds, #birds and #bees into your garden or allotment. Beneficial wildlife is such an important pest control tool for organic growers - you'll certainly be rewarded for any effort you put in.

Find out more about the course, or reserve your place via the link below. ... See more

If you're concerned about the use of #pesticides, including #neonics and the #herbicide #glyphosate, and want to add your voice to the fight we would urge you to join our ranks by becoming a member of Garden Organic. The more individuals we represent, the more sway we have with influencers and policy-makers. Now is a really important time for #organic growers, find out how to get involved here: http://www.gardenorganic.org.uk/join-us ... See more

#Watering is important this month. Give your plants a good soak, in the soil not the leaves.
This is best done in the cool of the evening. Use rainwater to top up ponds; tap water can be too high in nutrients, encouraging algal growth.
And don’t forget to water your #compost heap! Moist conditions, not dry, help the rotting down process. #fridaytip ... See more

July is the month when all the hard work pays off. Herbs and flowers are fragrant, and the soil rich with your home made compost. After the rush of May and June growth, you can relax a little and enjoy the fruits of your labour. ... See more

Full details of the latest study on #neonic #pesticide here.

The largest study to-date on neonicotinoid pesticides concludes they harm honeybees and wild bees.

Short film from BBC News explaining the worries around #neonics...

the pesticides we use are harming these guys.

Here are a selection of images from yesterday's #wormery course!

Today's Wonderful Wormeries course is going really well. If you missed out, below are the details of our next few courses:
- Attracting Wildlife to your Garden - 20th July
- Growing Winter Veg - 3rd August (only a small number of places left)
- Cutting Edge Veg - 22nd August
- Introduction to Seed Saving - 7th September

Full details here: www.gardenorganic.org.uk/our-courses ... See more

Today's #mondaymotivation comes courtesy of the 'Georgia' squash flowers unfurling in the Kedar house - proof, should anyone still need it, that gardeners don't have to choose between a 'pretty' garden and a productive garden. ... See more

Would you like to make better use of your household kitchen and garden waste?

We can teach you all of the know-how on #composting, with our half day course coming up on 14th July.

You will cover the following core principles:
✔️ An introduction to basic #composting requirements
✔️ Learning about different types of #organic #compost systems
✔️ Methods of ‘pre-treatment’ and enclosed system
✔️ Investigating when the various methods of composting or
disposal may be suitable and practical to maintain

Places for this course are limited so you'll need to be quick! ... See more

Most compostable kitchen and garden waste can be processed through a traditional compost heap or a worm bin. However it may be preferable to use different techniques to recycle specific types of kitchen and garden ‘waste’ such as autumn leaves, woody prunings and hedge clippings, food waste such as… ... 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.