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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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Guy’s news: sea trout, soil & the free market
We rent some land on the edge of Dartmoor where the lower temperatures limit disease and the resulting slower growth improves the flavour of our swede crop.
By Guy Singh-Watson - 11th March 2016
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The irony of a vegan Easter
With the rise of veganism comes an increase in dairy-free Easter offerings… but perhaps chocolatiers should consider their mould choices too. Arlo is covering Wicked Leeks Ellis.
By Ellis - 18th April 2019
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Staying off our knees
Guy Singh-Watson explains how after 30 years of organic farming, Riverford have become pretty good at controlling weeds.
By Guy Singh-Watson - 17th April 2019
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Five asparagus recipes to enjoy this spring
Tender, sweet and delicate – the flavour of asparagus just can’t be beaten. For an organic farmer though, asparagus is the ultimate challenge with weeds being the major problem.
By Kirsty Hale - 17th April 2019
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