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 !

A seed saving research project led by Sanwal Bhatti from University of Birmingham was featured last night on BBC Midlands today.

The project is taking place at Bourneo Street Allotments, Walsall who took part in our Growing From Your Roots project.

You can watch the coverage from 15:44
#seeds #seedsaving #foodsecurity ... See more

The latest news, sport and weather for the Midlands.

We're delighted that our Growing Communities project in #Breckland and West #Norfolk has been awarded £388,000 from the National Lottery Big Lottery Fund

Growing Communities supports vulnerable members of the #community & #volunteers through community gardening & will use the funding to provide #therapeutic gardening activities. ... See more

Norfolk community charities are celebrating after being awarded a sum of money from the National Lottery’s Big Lottery Fund.

Join our Southwark Master Gardeners today for their free #Herbal Presents #Workshop from 10am-1pm. Learn how to make presents from #herbs and take some home with you! Lunch is also included! Get you ticket here... ... See more

FREE Herbal Presents Workshop at: Buchan Estate Community Hall, Southwark on: Wednesday, 13 December 2017 - 10:00am to 1:00pmJoin Southwark Master Gardeners for their free Herbal Presents Workshop.Learn how to make presents from herbs and take some home with you! They'll be hands on activities a... ... See more

Many #gardeners across the #UK have experienced heavy snow and frost this week. We recorded a very chilly -11 degrees ❄️❄️❄️ at Ryton!

Here's some information on how to deal with nature's beautiful, but deadly, ice maker. ... See more

Frost in the organic garden Frost – an enemy of great beauty! Nothing is more stunning than the white, sparkling glitter of a sunny frosty day. But nothing is more deadly. Frost kills plants, as the water inside the plant cells expands when it freezes. This breaks the cell walls, which means they ... ... See more

The gardens this morning, looking beautiful in the frost ❄️❄️❄️

**Office closure - Monday 11th December**

Due to dangerous driving conditions the Garden Organic office, gardens and shop are closed today, Monday 11th December.

We hope to be back open as usual on Tuesday.

For details of the Stock Pot café please visit www.facebook.com/thestockpotcafe. ... See more

If you’re tucked up inside away from the snow, why not grab a hot chocolate, put your feet up and take a look online at our fabulous clothing range.

A perfect opportunity to finish off that Christmas shopping! ... 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.