Market Garden

While feeding chickens, picking apples and drinking tea, we chatted about our ideas. Together we wanted to encorporate a veg box scheme into the existing regenerative model of the farm. We dreamt of a garden teeming with life, biodiversity and a range of delicious veg. There are so many issues with our food system and we aim to be a small part of turning that around. The goal is to provide local people with access to veg grown well and the opportunity to connect with the grower and the land.

Following this, Liz began to plan how to provide a range of vegetables within a regenerative system. She found inspiration and knowledge from other growers around the world, each on their own regenerative journeys. One key idea is to protect and build on the life in the soil. It might not seem like much, but soil is incredibly important and key to all other forms of life. In just one teaspoon of soil, there can be more microbes than there are people on the planet. This is why the garden is no dig and we aim to keep soil covered as much as possible. When beds are cleared, the roots are left in the ground to breakdown and feed the soil. We add ammendments to feed the complex soil food web. From this comes higher levels of biodiversity including insects, birds and small mammals.