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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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    • Politics

    Fighting for food standards

    It will take public outcry to prevent what now seems inevitable: the desecration of hard-won food and environmental standards, in a desperate scrabble to sell financial services.

    By Guy Singh-Watson - 11th June 2020

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    • News from the farm
    • Farming

    Too dry too early

    Hopefully, there will be some rain over the next two months to establish the critical June and July planting, but there are a lot of nervous growers watching the weather forecast.

    By Guy Singh-Watson - 27th May 2020

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    • News from the farm

    Sticking to our onions

    Being all things to all people is the supermarkets’ task. This time of forced change has brought us an opportunity to reflect, reinforcing our resolve to stick to what we’re good at.

    By Guy Singh-Watson - 18th May 2020

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    • News from the farm
    • Farming

    'Never known them so happy'

    With coronavirus on top of Brexit, finding enough pickers could have been a problem, but Vicky, who looks after our 40 new recruits, describes them as 'very good'.

    By Guy Singh-Watson - 6th May 2020

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    • Farming

    Smugness and outsmarting the weeds

    There is a wonderful contented satisfaction (going on smugness) to be found lying in bed listening to long awaited and much needed rain.

    By Guy Singh-Watson - 29th April 2020

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    • News from the farm
    • Farming

    Running to seed

    Most farmers self-isolate by choice anyway (it comes with the job); add to that the new-found appreciation for food, and I reckon we are the lucky ones.

    By Guy Singh-Watson - 15th April 2020

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    The uncomfortable truth about fishing

    I found it hard to disagree with the main conclusion of Seaspiracy: that there is almost no sustainable fishing, and the labels claiming sustainability fall a long way short of delivering it.

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    What can we glean from the loss of the Commons?

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