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fickle french weather and a (minor) carrot crisis
monday 14th may 2012
My father stopped keeping sheep 50 years ago, claiming, “They just keep finding new ways to die”. After three years of growing veg in France amid hail, Botrytis fungus and deluge, I’m feeling the same about peppers. Last week a break in the weather ... continued
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for those of you who eat meat
monday 7th may 2012
I am an omnivorous veg obsessive whose heart quickens at the sight of cabbages and chillies. However I have a pig-obsessed father, a butcher brother and two other cow-keeping siblings, so Riverford has always been a mixed if not predominantly livestock farm. Both her... continued
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so much for the drought…
monday 30th april 2012
Here in Devon the reservoirs are full, the river is topping its banks, our fields are sodden and planting has ground to halt. The crops that are already in the ground are lapping it up, especially the leafy brassicas, but this should be our busiest time for planting.... continued
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the hungry gap – closing in on a solution?
thursday 12th april 2012 press release
With cauliflower, purple sprouting broccoli, leeks and greens coming to an end in the fields and the stores rapidly emptying of roots, local veg is getting scarce. As there are still three or four weeks to go before we cut our first spring-planted lettuce or spinach,... continued
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bees, neonicotinocides + weeds in the spinach
monday 9th april 2012
While on my knees harvesting a particularly weed-ridden crop of spinach this morning, it occurred to me that a relatively small quantity of noxious chemical last autumn would have made the job a lot easier. I am not an organic dogmatist or a Luddite; good chemistry c... continued
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