Beautiful beets from Frith Farm!!!!

Exciting times!

Our 1st veg box collection will be ready a week tomorrow - for those of you already signed up, start getting excited!

For those of you who would still like to sign up, but haven't, we still have some veg box spaces available from 22nd July - get yourself signed up!

Benefits:
1. Chemical free
2. Hand picked on the same day
3. Grown for flavour - the FLAVOUR!!!!
4. Grown locally - support your local, small scale farm
5. Grown locally - trace-ability, low carbon footprint
6. need we say more?
7. OK then... top quality food, grown by people you'll meet
8. Get healthy

For more info visit our website www.frithfarming.com ... See more

#simpleswitch No.6 - Save your seeds.

Organic growers know their #plants will stay #organic year on year. And now is the perfect time of year to be saving your own seeds.

A paper bag or envelope will do just fine, to shake the #seeds into. Keep them dry, and cool, and sow again next Spring.

#simpleswitch #organicseptember #ChooseOrganic ... See more

Happy #Monday! Feel inspired this #autumn, and love your #organic #garden in #September. #MondayMotivation #winteriscoming

Your Organic Garden in September September sunshine is special - golden and gentle. But the growing days are shorter, with dew drenched mornings and cool evenings. Now is the time to gather your harvest before frosts threaten. And save your seeds before winter sets in.See below for advice on soil, v... ... See more

We received a fantastic turnout for our Urban Organics talk at Harrogate Flower Show hosted by our very own Chris Collins.

We've enjoyed a great weekend here in Harrogate and it's been fantastic to see so many of our valued members.

See you again soon 😀 ... See more

Just 30 minutes to go before our Head of Organic Horticulture, Chris Collins takes to the Kitchen Garden stage at Harrogate Flower Show. He'll be talking about all things organic.

See you there! 😀

#simpleswitch No.5 - Buy organic plants, seeds and bulbs.

Almost anything bought from a garden centre, whether it is a plant in a pot, a packet of seeds or autumn bulbs will have been treated with chemicals which can destroy #wildlife.

There are many online suppliers, such as The Organic Gardening Catalogue

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We're delighted to have been awarded five stars by the judges for our stand at Harrogate Flower Show. Very exciting!

Making great use of the tin from our Clipper Teas tea bags by using it to plant our Dobies Purple beetroot & Golden Sunrise beetroot.
#natural #organic

Our #Fridaytip for you this week is to harvest as much as you possibly can before frost strikes! Tomatoes and beans are particularly susceptible. Cut up and throw the empty plants on the #compost heap.

If you have windfall #plums, #apples and #pears, leave some on the grass, they are loved by #birds, #butterflies and other beneficial #insects. #autumngarden #harvest #organic

If you'd like to more about how to start planning your own #organic #garden then take a look at our introductory course... ... See more

Planning your organic garden at: Ryton Organic Gardenson: Thursday, 16 November 2017 - 10:00am to 4:00pmThis introductory course focuses on how to start planning your organic garden, with practical tips on crop rotation, ground preparation and more. Winter is the perfect time to plan ahead and prepa... ... See more

Huge fruit on Alistair MacGillivray's 'Pacific Giant' squash plant, about 70cm and still getting bigger - see the foot at the bottom right for scale! Don't forget we're running a free competition on this one - there's a £20 seed voucher for the person who sends in the most impressive photo of their results. ... See more

It's that exciting time of year when seed starts ripening thick and fast 🙂 Below are the first few umbels of Manchester Table carrot seed ready to harvest in the tunnel.

We've just harvested the tree onions - they're drying nicely in the barn, and we've got a few of the earliest ones packed up now.
http://realseeds.co.uk/onionsspecial.html#onts

We found lots of little baby lizards while we were clearing up in front of the tunnel - they move very fast, but one stayed still long enough for a photo.

Some of the flowers we've got growing amongst the vegetables on our fields at the moment - great for the bees, and some of them are edible too.

Everything is growing so fast right now. The edible lupin 'dieta' has set loads of pods. The seeds of this special variety are hopefully non-bitter and are cooked or pickled as 'altramuz'; a high yielding, fast-growing, nitrogen-fixing food crop. ... See more

Here's a fantastic photo of our Painted Mountain corn, just sent in by James Wilde of Invergowrie in Scotland. (And yes, he did grow it in a greenhouse to get it this early - but the outdoors one are just starting to make cobs now as well.) ... See more

Now how about this for a tomato colour scheme!

Pulleys are great 🙂

The water tower is finished - now all we have to do is figure out how to get the enormous tank on top of it!