Friday 16th August 2013

Friday 16th August 2013

Hello Everyone The rocket is excellent and there’s plenty of it. Absolutely unbeatable fresh with your lunch in this warmer weather. So full of flavour.          The leaves are taken off the stalks and separately washed, then bagged...
Sunday 11th August 2013

Sunday 11th August 2013

Hello Everyone Hopefully I can now add pictures! Here’s Michael with a bunch of blood oranges that went to the market yesterday. (Sorry, he’s squinting into the sun!) The area around the trees is laying fallow at the moment. Soon it will be mown and the trees mulched...

Thursday 8th August 2013

Hello Everyone, The weather has helped and everything is looking juicy and delicious. Here’s an early update and I will add to it tomorrow as the last picking will be bagged and boxed. At last the blood oranges are ready and will be on the market stalls with some...

Friday August 2nd 2013

Hello Everyone Just to add to yesterday as Bergamot citrus is here! Know some of you are waiting on getting some. They are really an orange but were grown in Italy mainly for the essential oil. Did you know the French called them ‘çitrons doux’ – sweet lemons. Try...

Thursday 1st August 2013

  Hello Everyone, I am Nancy, the farmer’s wife! I would like to introduce myself as I have offered to do most of the blog now. Michael, the farmer is flat out with growing delicious plants for you and picking and packing them for market and masses of things that...