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Guy Singh-Watson

Guy Singh-Watson has over the last 30 years taken Riverford from one man and a wheelbarrow delivering homegrown organic veg to friends, to a national veg box scheme delivering to around 80,000 customers a week.

Tired of meetings, brands and the assumption that greed is our predominant motivation, Guy converted the business to employee ownership in 2018, using the proceeds to buy a small farm and return to growing organic vegetables. In common with many of Riverford’s new co-owners, Guy is an advocate of using business to shape a part of the world, however small, to be kinder, more considerate and sustainable; more like the world most of us want to live in. 

His weekly newsletters connect people to the farm with refreshingly honest accounts of the trials and tribulations of producing organic food, and the occasional rant about farming, ethical and business issues he feels strongly about.

Articles by Guy Singh-Watson

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    • Biodiversity

    Nuts and rationality

    I will never see the walnuts in full production, but have been sustained by a vision of being wheeled out in my later years to sit under the trees as the nuts drop, with a flagon of cider and an air…

    By Guy Singh-Watson - 17th February 2021

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    • News from the farm
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    21 tonnes of plastic saved

    Plastic has become so iconic in a collective determination to address environmental issues that we had to act.

    By Guy Singh-Watson - 4th February 2021

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    • News from the farm

    Brexit, bees and book recommendations

    Within a month, our government has initiated a rushed consultation on gene editing and overturned a ban on a bee-threatening neonicotinoid insecticide.

    By Guy Singh-Watson - 28th January 2021

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    • Farming

    Soil, muck and spring

    Earthworms hate slurry, and few would claim it’s perfect – but with the farmers getting 30p per litre for milk, don’t expect them to be able to make costly compost anytime soon. 

    By Guy Singh-Watson - 14th January 2021

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    • Environment & ethics

    Hope in a collective world

    My hope is that 2021 will mark the start of the decline of the cult of individual wealth and fame, along with all the waste and loneliness that go with it.

    By Guy Singh-Watson - 7th January 2021

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    Too big for their planet

    In search of mature, rocket-free inspiration, Riverford supports the Oxford Real Farming Conference: an annual meeting of unconventional farmers, cooks, campaigners and scientists.

    By Guy Singh-Watson - 2nd December 2020

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