Veg Box Newsletter 15/09/17

Morning Folks, That’s it for salad from Left Field for a little while now. There’ll be a break as we transition to hardier crops that will survive through the winter. We’re sowing a lot of spinach, chard, land cress and other hardy greens which should give us crops throughout the winter. Also our Rouken Glen…

Veg Box Newsletter 8/9/17

Hello Folks, Thank you all for your wonderful entries to the Munch of the Month competition, and congratulations to Jennifer, our August winner! Please do continue posting your veg box creations on social media with the tags #locavoremm and #locavorevegbox for our September edition of the competition. If you haven’t already, join our veg box…

Veg Box Newsletter 1/9/17

Hi Folks, We’ve been preparing lots of new ground at Left Field. Some for planting out our autumn crops of chard and kale, and others to be covered over with weed-suppressing fabric over autumn and winter, ready to be planted into next spring. Also this week we say a fond farewell to one of our…

Veg Box Newsletter 25/8/17

Hi Folks, Winter is coming. Well, not yet, but up on the farm we have to think at least a season ahead. We’ve been sowing carrots and spring onions, which will withstand the cold in our polytunnel, as well as more chard for autumn harvests outdoors, and hardy kale to keep us going through to…

Veg Box Newsletter 18/08/17

Hello Folks, This week, majority of the produce in the veg boxes this week is from our growing sites, with only the potatoes, carrots and onions from the rest of the UK!   We’ve added Mossgiel cream to our delivery offering, it’s £2.15 for 0.5l. We have of course tried it ourselves on soft fruit…

Veg Box Newsletter 11/08/17

Hi Folks, The biggest news of the week is that we should be opening our new grocery store, deli and veg box HQ at the former Pandora Bar in the south side. It has been great to see the happy response! This week at the Urban Croft, the growers have been harvesting lots of rainbow…