“Eating is an agricultural act” (Wendell Berry)

It is also a political act. We're a part of the movement toward a healthier food system,

which means healthier people, communities, soils, animals, and environment.   

This mystery gooseberry lives in one of our hedges and is the absolute sweetest thing. Come autumn I’m going to propagate the heck out of it by taking cuttings. I’m keeping an eye on you, gooseberry! #gooseberry #propagation #plants #hedg
Grasses going to seed along the edges of the farm. Each unique and beautiful. I enjoy looking at a patch and seeing the diversity. Next step is to learn their names and to id them. #grasses #farm #seed #meadow #speciesdiversity #plantidentification
This is definitely summer. Saved seed and wildflower mixes are adding vibrant colour and movement to spaces around the farm. The bees are buzzing lazily and enjoying the blooms. 🌷🌸🌺 #flowers #wildflowers #poppies #volunteerplants #garden #gardenin
Long hot summer days are best for ripening fruit and for little hands to forage and snack on them. This is the first year we’ve had any number of cherries... I learned from last year and netted the trees before the birds had a chance to steal t
Cauliflower, Broccoli and Romanesco Cauliflower. Such a thrill to discover these yesterday as we pulled back the mesh for weeding. Hoping they hold off until our next boxes! #marketgarden #gardening #garden #vegetables #veggies #localfood #growyourow
Meet our flower mix for our salads! The season is in full colour for borage, nasturtiums, calendula and violets, and we add flowers from our coriander and dill that are going to seed for a herbal nudge. They are a joy to pick, pack and share. 🌸#edib
Celebrating the first of the sunflowers! We watched this beauty emerge over the course of several days, and its chums are not far behind. #sunflower #sunflowers #bloom #pollinators #pollinatorgarden #flowers #joyful #summer #inbloom #marketgarden #g
Veg box 11: swede, potatoes, rainbow mix carrots, beets, spring onion, salad with edible flowers, lettuce, baby kale, Asian mix, collard greens. Artichokes and mange-tout peas for early pickups! We have 40 boxes going out today! If you aren’t a
Garlic: good, better, best. We eat a lot of garlic. A LOT. These germidour garlic are from cloves we grew last year. We should have done four times as much when we planted in October, but we ate them. Lesson learned. #sustainability #garlic #awayofli
Hands down the best biscuit tin to recycle for seeds goes to @biscuiteersltd. 🍪 🥕 It may be the longest day of the year but days will start getting shorter from now on, so over the next couple of months we have to make sure successions are seeded
Some of the things we’ve learned in lockdown! Beekeeping, honey extraction, swarm collection, and candle-making; incubating, hatching and raising chicks, guineafowl and (soon to be) ducklings; woodwork including chopping boards, the chickshaw,

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