As soon as we secured our second field and brought in our first pigs we saw an opportunity to grow wildflowers. Over the years, we’ve experimented with various seed mixes, especially from Cotswold Seeds, and found that choosing the right mix for your soil and conditions is key. Annuals One of our favourites is the […]
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At Real Food Garden, we never set out to be pig farmers. In fact, both of us were once committed vegetarians, driven by environmental and ethical concerns around industrial meat production. So when we started keeping pigs, it had to be on our own terms, with the goal of producing the highest-welfare, most environmentally beneficial
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After seven years without a proper break, we finally left the farm. It’s never easy. Anyone who’s run a farm business knows the deep tug of responsibility—plants to water, animals to feed, early mornings and endless lists. But this spring, we swapped boots for backpacks and flew to Montenegro for our first holiday away in
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Offered by: The Real Food Garden, in partnership with the Apricot Centre Are you passionate about sustainable farming, ecological restoration, and building a career in agroecology? The Real Food Garden, in collaboration with the Apricot Centre, is thrilled to offer the Level 3 Traineeship in Regenerative Land-Based Systems: Agroecological Food & Farming. This hands-on, immersive
Nourishing People and Place From the outset the Real Food mission has been to ‘Nourish People and Place’. So it was a natural step for us to use livestock to improve places for wildlife. Since spring 2023 we have been using cattle and pigs to achieve conservation outcomes for landowners including Cornwall Wildlife Trust. We
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Sheep and Sheepskins We’d like to introduce you to our colourful woolly mowers! Our little flock of native breed crosses graze our orchard and also provide their services to neighbouring landowners. We’ve selected our friendliest ovines who have great quality fleece so that we can produce the full range or products a sheep can. With
About us The Real Food Garden is an established regenerative food producer with a market garden, veg box scheme, farm shop and conservation grazing. We grow a full range of vegetables over a long season both outside and undercover. We have a 8 year old no-dig garden and also grow at field scale, growing across
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We were so pleased to be recognised with an award at the Cornwall Sustainability Awards 2022! We entered in the Growing Greener category to showcase what agriculture and horticulture can achieve. We are always striving to embody our mission of ‘creating truly sustainable food production that nourishes people and place’ more fully but feel we
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By some miracle the clouds parted and the sun shone last Sunday as twenty budding vegetable growers gathered in the garden to learn about no-dig vegetable growing at the Real Food Garden. The visitors had a jam packed morning of learning about organic and no-dig ways of growing with our very own Head Grower Amelia Lake.
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We are offering three seasonal workshops to get you growing your own organic, no-dig vegetables. Each workshop will provide the essentials in no-dig and organic growing and take you on a journey of planning and creating a veg plot,boosting your success, reducing the work involved and having year-round veg. Amelia Lake has many years experience
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