We deliver organic fruit, organic vegetables and organic meat including chicken, lamb, beef and pork - including our fantastic sausages to Yorkshire and the North East.
We operate a box scheme or a choice box giving you ease of ordering with a regular delivery or the flexibility to choose what you want.
Rain - Having just finished reading a book called the 'Right Attitude to Rain' I'm having difficulty with this concept!! Whilst it isn't fun being in a constant deluge of water waiting for the River Swale to burst it's banks again - there are one or two benefits. From our perspective it has brought on our new potatoes nicely which are being harvested this week!. Having said this, for keen gardeners everywhere the constant rain means watching your own gardens and allotments taking a hammering (particularly the roses).
For those of you who grow your own veg as well as receiving our boxes, the Observer provided details of findings from the RHS which may be of uinterest to you.- it certainly reinforces ones belief in organic food Home-grown veg ruined by toxic fertiliser Gardeners have been warned not to eat home-grown vegetables contaminated by a powerful new herbicide that is destroying gardens and allotments a cross the UK. The Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) has been inundated with calls from concerned gardeners who have seen potatoes, beans, peas, carrots and salad vegetables wither or become grossly deformed. The affected gardens and allotments have been contaminated by manure originating from farms where the hormone-based herbicide aminopyralid has been sprayed on fields.
Dow AgroSciences, which manufactures aminopyralid, has posted advice to allotment holders and gardeners on its website. Colin Bowers, Dow's UK grassland marketing manager, told The Observer that links to their products had been proved in some of the cases, but it was not clear whether aminopyralid was responsible for all of them and tests were continuing. 'It is undoubtedly a problem,' he said, 'and I have got full sympathy for everyone who is involved with this.' He said the company was unable to advise gardeners that it was 'safe' to consume vegetables that had come into contact with the manure because of pesticide regulations. 'All we can say is that the trace levels of aminopyralid that are likely to be in these crops are of such low levels that they are unlikely to cause a problem to human health.' It appears that the contamination came from grass treated 12 months ago. Experts say the grass was probably made into silage, then fed to cattle during the winter months. The herbicide remained present in the silage, passed through the animal and into manure that was later sold.
www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/jun/29/food.agriculture
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