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Guy’s news: Sticking to my tomatoes
It’s grey, grim and cold; our football team is in shame and the country in chaos but the world is still spinning and our vegetables are still growing.
By Guy Singh-Watson - 1st July 2016
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Guy’s news: Rampant vegetation & bucolic harmony
Last night I dreamt of being entombed in rampant foliage under an impenetrable forest.
By Guy Singh-Watson - 24th June 2016
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Guy’s news: Samphire, ospreys & trench foot
For many years we have picked marsh samphire from a salt marsh formerly used as summer grazing by the Miller family, one of our farming co-op members.
By Guy Singh-Watson - 17th June 2016
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Guy’s news: Small but perfectly formed
A couple of decades ago, when veg boxes were just a promising side line, I was struggling to grow cauliflowers for Sainsbury’s.
By Guy Singh-Watson - 3rd June 2016
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Guy’s news: Enlightenment in the cabbages
One of the things I love about being an organic grower is the constant challenge. The ever-receding horizon of perfect knowledge means that I will be learning to the end. After 30 years, assumptions…
By Guy Singh-Watson - 20th May 2016
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Guy’s news: Doing it all & Russian salads
Here on our French farm we are frantically harvesting, cooling and dispatching a truck a day of lettuce, spinach, chard, wet garlic, broad beans, kohlrabi, turnips and cabbage.
By Guy Singh-Watson - 13th May 2016
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Guy’s news: Stress & rhubarb
There has been frost on the ground in the morning but we have been irrigating by midday. The recent cold, dry weather is ideal for ploughing, mucking and preparing seedbeds, especially from a heated…
By Guy Singh-Watson - 29th April 2016
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Guy’s news: Storks, frogs & Brexit
Here in the Vendée the sun is shining, the storks are nesting and we are busy harvesting lettuce, planting sweetcorn and chillies, and preparing to pick the first chard and spinach.
By Guy Singh-Watson - 22nd April 2016
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Guy’s news: planting, picking the last of the old & waiting
Every bird seems to have a twig in its mouth and some have already laid eggs, but spring has yet to arrive with any conviction in our fields.
By Guy Singh-Watson - 8th April 2016
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