Do you know your Egremont from your Herefordshire Russet? Can you tell a Spartan from a Blaze? Come down to the shop this Sunday to celebrate Apple Day with us and taste your way through a range of 20+ varieties we’ll have available from 5 different orchards. Launched in 1990 by an organisation called Common… Read More »
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Veg News 12th September
We are happy to report a seasonal shift of a veg news this week with orchard, vine and top fruits celebrating the glorious bridge between late summer and autumn. UK plums are plentiful and tasting divine. There’s Marjorie’s Seedling, Monarch and Victoria varieties to choose between, from Carey Organics in Herefordshire at the start of… Read More »
Veg News 10th August
The unseasonably wet weather has been causing havoc for our growers these past few weeks, limiting the growth of certain crops and waterlogging fields. John @newfields_organic_produce told us that they are finally getting out to weed today with the nicer weather, not being able to get any machinery out must have been so infuriating at… Read More »
Veg news 18th July
Martin Soble of Carey Organics has been growing at Whitethorn Farm in Herefordshire for nearly 20 years. The farm was purchased as a set of bare conventional fields and Martin and his team have spent the past two decades building up the biodiversity of the site using minimal intervention and a sympathetic approach to the… Read More »
Veg news 4th April.
The glorious weather of the past few days has finally got us in the mood for salad! Thankfully we’ve got lots of it: Farmstart’s loose salad leaves and generously sized rocket bags are looking great, as is Libby Flintoff’s spinach beet; just look at those leaves! We’ll be getting rocket from Libby later in the… Read More »
Veg News 28th of February.
Spring is officially on the horizon! Glebelands will be delivering our first lot of daffodils and broad bean seedlings this week, marking a subtle but significant shift from winter into spring. Incidentally we’re already stocking seed potatoes courtesy of New Fields, currently Marfona and Charlotte with many more varieties on the way. But as we… Read More »