Organic networking... And what a character this guy is 😂

There's nothing like a bath full of worms.

New arrival for the boxes! Squash!

No need to peel me. Just roast, steam, stew me, stick me in a curry or blend me into a warming soup. The possibilities are endless -

Enjoy.

The resulting effects of CSA and how it can support a bright and abundant future for the way we produce food.

This story among many others will be included in our new documentary Living the Change: Inspiring Stories for a Sustainable Future! Find out more at https://livingthechangefilm.com

Farm friend Jen has started a really good food blog for us called 'One Hull of a Kitchen'. She'll be using the Frith farm veg box to produce weekly, seasonal recipes to help us all stay inspired. Go check out the link below.

https://onehullofakitchen.wordpress.com/ ... See more

First sight of corn yesterday. It's delicious as it is uncooked, creamiest corn I've ever tasted!

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Interesting new blog post on our website about pesticide residues in food. Written by Gina Allen who has Masters by Research in Science of the Environment.

Click the link below to read:

https://frithfarming.com/blog/ ... See more

Frith farm is a local community agriculture scheme providing fresh seasonal, high quality, chemical free, vegetables and gourmet salad in Hull and Beverley

This machine makes planting a breeze!

Looking at a small African tribe, this study found that the composition of their gut bacteria changed with the seasons, due to a strict seasonal diet. The study found that some bacteria even disappeared altogether and then reappeared the following season. When samples were compared to those from industrialised, western countries it demonstrated (again) their diminishing microbial diversity.

Nice little article supporting the importance of local, seasonal eating! 😉 ... See more

Seasonal changes in gut bacteria make-up of a small African community strengthens the evidence that diet strongly influences our gut microbiota, finds a new study in Science.

Good Morning!
Our Colourful Carrots dug from the new bed are ready for today's box scheme members !

Join us at the Move More Eat Well Big Healthy Lunch on Sunday 9th July.
A day full of family friendly activities - don't forget to bring your picnic!
#movemoreeatwell #active #healthylifestyle

Welcome to Move More Eat Well's Big Healthy Lunch! Bring your favourite dish to share with neighbours and family, be ready to moving more with some fun sporty activities and to eat well with tons of food growing and healthy cooking sessions.
You will also be able to sign-up for some exciting, free healthy activities running in your area. ... See more

Are you experiencing #Rose black spot on your roses?

Rose black spot is rarely a killer disease; it just disfigures. Remove affected leaves and flowers, and put in the green waste bin for professional composting.

To reduce future infections, always pick up and remove fallen leaves – the fungi spores will overwinter in them. #fridaytip #roses #blackspot ... See more

Good news in the fight against #neonics and #pesticides

Opposition to neonicotinoid ban thrown out - from Horticulture Week

Our members experiments plants have all been planted out now and are enjoying all of the hot weather! ☀

In our display bed of plants with novel uses, the flax is producing a multitude of blue flowers, and our dye plants, #weld, #woad, #coreopsis and #madder are all thriving.

The #tomatillos are flowering and starting to produce fruits too.

The Blooms for Bees #dahlias have now started flowering. The purple variety flowered first, followed by red and then white.

How are your experiments coming along? Are you seeing similar progress?
#GOExperiments #organicseeds #bloomsforbees ... See more

We were joined this week by our Coventry Master Composters, delivered in partnership with Coventry City Council for an evening of DIY Wormeries.

Our group set to work making their very own wormery and were delighted with the results!

We think worms are a fantastic little army to help with your worm composting, creating a dark, crumbly compost, from your kitchen and garden waste!

If you're keen to learn more about worm composting then join us for our half-day Wonderful Wormeries course and discover how to introduce this resource into your garden and even your home! ... See more

Become part of our brand new project - Move More Eat Well​.

We have two Education Officer vacancies available, so if you're looking for an engaging part-time role then read on...

Happy #summersolstice ☀ what do you have planned for the longest day? #sunshine #gardening #happy

Are your #plants a little thirsty? Follow our golden rules on how to use #water more efficiently in the #garden

Build up your soil with organic matter (compost, garden waste) which will help the soil structure to retain moisture. Especially if you have light sandy soil.

It was great to see family carers enjoying the beautiful surroundings at Ryton Organic Gardens last week as part of our Thyme To Be project.

Our group enjoyed harvesting salad which they had sown and loved making their very own organic bath bombs!

100% of those who attended would recommend Thyme To Be, so if you know someone who would benefit from these sessions, then please let them know about us.

Sessions are running every month until September 🌿 ... See more

Don't forget to pop some chilled water out tonight for your prickly friends 💦

Share if you will offer some water for hoggys tonight in this blistering heat - send pic of your #hedgehogoasis

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.