Marco oversees Riverford's farm in the Vendée region of France. The same distance by road from the company's Devon farm as the Fens in Cambridgeshire, the farm allows the seasons for various UK summer crops to be extended into the autumn.
It’s been an excellent salad season so far because the weather has been very dry, and so we have fewer problems with the fungal disease mildew, writes grower Marco Altamirano from Riverford's farm in the Vendée.
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