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Posted: Tuesday, 4 March, 2025 - 07:57
We’ve had some milder weather but still plenty of cold starts, so there’s not much growth yet on the over-wintered greens in the field, the later leeks or the salad leaves in the polytunnels. A dry week this week may enable us to get some ploughing done though. And we’ve made a good start on ... Read more
Posted: Friday, 31 January, 2025 - 10:17
The wildlife camera is set up on our small pond. The main daytime visitors have been pheasants, red-legged partridges and pigeons with the occasional buzzard. There is usually a fox seen most nights, as well as rabbits. And occasinally an owl (barn owl possibly, going on the size) and a polecat/ ... Read more
Posted: Thursday, 23 January, 2025 - 15:52
A very belated Happy New Year to all of our customers We had a relaxing break but the weather since starting back to work on January 2 has gave us a few challenges, mainly fitting in enough harvesting within the small window of time when the crops are not frozen! And getting dressed in the morning ... Read more
Posted: Tuesday, 26 November, 2024 - 14:53
Christmas 2024 and New Year 2025 Arrangements Details of our Christmas and New Year deliveries were included in the newsletter emailed to customers on Thursday 21 November and to be sent again on Thursday 28 November. (The email was sent from updates@mail.ooooby.org , check your spam folder if you’ ... Read more
Posted: Tuesday, 26 November, 2024 - 14:51
Christmas 2024 and New Year 2025 Box Scheme and Kent Farmer’s Market Dates Thursday 19 December Box scheme deliveries Saturday 21 December Wye Farmer’s Market, 9am to midday Monday 23 December Extra Whitstable Farmer’s Market, 9am to 1pm Thursday 26 Dec & Thursday 2 Jan Veggie boxes CANCELLED ... Read more
Posted: Friday, 8 November, 2024 - 11:52
We’ve had very few cold starts so far this autumn and plenty of wet and mild days so it’s very wet out in the fields now and our waterproofs are getting plenty of use!! We’ve usually had to change to an 8am start time before the clocks change, due to frosty mornings, but we’re still starting at 7am ... Read more
Posted: Tuesday, 3 September, 2024 - 15:21
August gave us a couple of particularly hot spells and not much rain until the end of the month, which was followed by a few sunny days, so all good again now for the plants (and weeds) to grow well during September. All of our vegetable plants are transplanted now, except for the last sowing of ... Read more
Posted: Tuesday, 6 August, 2024 - 08:07
We've finally put together the best of the pictures from the wildlife camera from the last few months. Happy that these include a couple of a turtle dove at the pond (although sad that we haven't heard any this year). Wildlife camera pictures Read more
Posted: Monday, 5 August, 2024 - 15:00
We’ve had plenty of warm weather and almost enough rain over the past month to keep us and the crops happy! We’ve had to do a small amount of irrigation on newly planted/sown crops but try and plant just before rain is forecast when practical to do so. Most things are growing well, a few crops and ... Read more
Posted: Friday, 5 July, 2024 - 11:47
June gave us plenty of weather, a few days that felt like late Autumn, some warmish days with cool nights, a week of heat and back to cool and wet at the start of July. The squash transplanting was finished before the hot week, helping those plants grow away before the rooks started pulling them up ... Read more
Posted: Friday, 31 May, 2024 - 08:29
We can see the end of the ‘Hungry Gap’ now, we have harvested the first of our spring onions and outdoor lettuce. We had annual spinach for the box scheme and markets at the end of May, and now have new season’s perpetual spinach, chard and kale ready. The new potatoes are still very small and the ... Read more
Posted: Tuesday, 14 May, 2024 - 15:19
Well, it finally stopped raining (some of the time anyway) so we've got all our potatoes planted now, and all of our onion sets in as well as transplanting kale, spinach, chard, parsley, lettuce and more into the fields. Some of the early direct seeding of carrots and salad hasn't done so well, ... Read more
Posted: Monday, 15 April, 2024 - 16:09
Here's an interesting inforgraphic from the Soil Association showing the main differences between regenerative and organic agriculture. Organic regen Infographics-Final.pdf And see below for more specific details about how our practices fit in with regenerative farming. Ripple Farm Organics and ... Read more
Posted: Tuesday, 2 April, 2024 - 14:16
March has been very wet, with very few dry windows to do any field work. We had a few consecutive dry days mid month, better than forecast, so we made the most of it and got out in the fields. We mowed some of the green manure and also managed a few more hours of ploughing. Martin planted a very ... Read more
Posted: Monday, 4 March, 2024 - 15:37
Most of the seed potatoes arrived mid February and are under cover. The first planting dates for our early potatoes vary a lot year to year depending on the weather. Last year England had its driest February since records began and we managed to plant some early but February has been far too wet ... Read more
Posted: Friday, 2 February, 2024 - 09:56
Happy New year to all of you and many thanks for your good wishes, cards and presents, much appreciated.And thanks for your custom throughout 2023. After a mild Christmas January gave us some more typical weather for the time of year. The repeated frosts meant that we had fairly small harvesting ... Read more
Posted: Friday, 15 December, 2023 - 11:52
The winter weather has creates a few extra challenges on the farm . When it is cold and frosty we have a shorter window to harvest produce, waiting until crops have defrosted first so we need to try and work ahead. The sunny days have been lovely though, once it has warmed up. And the wet days mean ... Read more
Posted: Friday, 1 December, 2023 - 11:15
CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR We will be delivering veggie boxes on Thursday 21 December, which will contain the usual Christmas veggies as well as a larger selection of extras you can add on. Then, no deliveries at all between Christmas and the New Year, resuming on Thursday January 4. (FORTNIGHTLY ... Read more
Posted: Thursday, 9 November, 2023 - 11:00
It was a particularly warm start to October, which is nice for working in and great for the tunnel crops but of course, not good as part of the global picture of climate breakdown. During October we harvested the remainder of our squash crop and started planting garlic. The garlic is planted in the ... Read more