Thanks to a mild start to November we’ve still had plenty of leafy greens and salad leaves to harvest. Our flat parsley in the field has been the best than it’s ever been at this time of year and we are still harvesting tomatoes and fresh chillies for the markets. Next week’s forecast cold weather could change all that though!
The potatoes and squash are all harvested and in store for the coming months and we’ve started harvesting parsnips, swede, cabbage and celeriac.
We now need to clear out some of the polytunnels ready for planting 5 trays of claytonia and sowing some other winter salad leaves.
We had a great farm walk for box scheme customers at the end of October, good to meet lots of new and old customers and to have help from the children looking for worms and searching vegetable treasures. I think all the adults enjoyed the vegetable treasure hunting too!
And a first for us, we have a few acres of 'Millers Choice' wheat in one of our fields. The variety grows taller and is less vigorous than modern varieties and copes well with low input systems. A friend of ours sowed the wheat from his own saved seed, and will harvest it next year and after processing most of it will be used into bread baked by Dockers Bakery. We are looking forward to buying bread at our local Farmer's Market (Wye) baked with a percentage of flour grown in our organic fields.
