Posts tagged as "organic vegetable farm"
MEXICAN MADNESS
This week on our farm we are pulling organic spring onions. This is pretty unusual for the time of year- usually Eden Farms grows overwintered salads in tunnels, but until this week, they were quite happy ourside.So how come that my local Somerfields is air- freighting spring onions in from MEXICO this week?! Is [...]
Sunny Saturday
Last night was the first truly cold frost for some time, coming just as we are curting the first tunnel organic lettuce. If the weather is cold enough to freeze the leaves, particularly when they have hearts, the morning sun will rupture the cell walls( ice expands- remember physics GCSE?), and a week later, [...]
e | business award finalist
Eden Farms is somehow a finalist in this gears East midlands Development Agency e- commerce awards! see www.ebusinessclub.biz Great excitement all round to discover that we have been chosen out of all these hi-tech businesses as a bit of alright!I tend to think of Eden Farms growing our organic vegetables in a sort of [...]
PURPLE EVERYTHING
First, my nose and toes have been purple all week- its freezing out here on the farm. With all the terrifying predictions of snow, I envisaged ruined vegetables buried under mountains of snow. In fact, we have got off with a very light covering, and some really sharp frosts. The chief sufferers have been [...]
CAULIFLOWER CHAOS
Cauliflowers are one of the most weather-responsive vegetables I know. When its cold, they sulk annoyingly, with hearts the size of 50p pieces protectively concealed from the chill. source
MORE ABOUT WATER
Listening to the weekend farming programme( yes, I know it’s sad), farmers in Australia are apparently in the forefront of global warming and are running out of water. In line with official thinking worldwide, protection of home-owners’ privileges tends to take precedence over farmer’s needs. So while flush toilets and automatic washing machines continue [...]
Yellow Greens
Summer should be a melllw dreamy time to enjoy the great outdoors and recover from too many nights spent in watching “B” movies and snacking sweeties. source
The Great Kohlrabi Competition
Kohlrabi, strange vegetable relation of turnips and cauliflowers, is much loved almost anywhere except the UK. Go on any farmers market and ecstatic customers witg continental accents snatch up huge bags of them and scurry home to gorge on delicacies made witg this under-rated veg.So why do I feel I have to keep apologising [...]
Slough of Despond
If I was a duck in the desert, I’d probably think things are great. As it is, watching all this year’s hard work being swallowed up by relentless rain and flooding has reduced our farm to a self-pitying bunch of whingers, desperate to put a good face on things and be positive- but [...]
Who loves the sun | ..
At last some genuine summer weather; I adore heat, and have felt profoundly cheated so far this summer. Therefore , accompanied by Harry Potter to submerge any feelings of guilt, I have managed to aquire a good tan by sitting out in the garden on every possible occasion over the last week. Not [...]
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