Notes from the Field: Mind the ‘Hungry Gap’

The first courgettes are potted up to their largest, litre pots, as have the tomatoes before they get planted out in a couple of week’s time and we’ve planted out… read more »

Notes from the Field

Last week we got on with a lot of potting – we potted up around 1,600 chard plants, 500 parsley plants and around 550 tomato plants. We also potted up… read more »

Notes from the Field

On Saturday, we said goodbye to Kev who (sadly for us) is moving out of the area. He gave one last compost workshop, getting everyone involved in filling our three,… read more »

Notes from the Field

This week we’re going to be planting up our mandala raised bed with herbs, including rosemary, thyme, sage and oregano. This is our first punt into bouquet garni (that’s a… read more »

Five lessons learned…

…from working at Sutton Community Farm   by Gavin McGregor (former VegBox Project Assistant at Sutton Community Farm) I recently left Sutton Community Farm after 16 months – roughly half… read more »

Notes from the Field

It’s been a busy week here on the farm and the sun’s been with us (almost) every step of the way. The tomatoes in our propagating polytunnel have started germinating… read more »