By Amelia Lake This year, more than ever, we’ve felt the value of trees in our landscapes. The exceptionally dry summer has turned grasses brittle and left livestock searching for shade and browse. In moments like these, we at Real Food Garden have been deeply grateful for our agroforestry system. But for us, this isn’t […]
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Blog takeover: Sunny, 2025 Trainee Hi I’m Sunny, one of this year’s trainees at the Real Food Garden. During my time here my love of growing, and passion for our native wildlife have blended seamlessly together. I’ve been really lucky in that I’ve had the opportunity to do some surveying for some reptiles and amphibians
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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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Fresh green leaves in mid-winter have long been highly valued in this part of the world. We are not so different from our ancestors thousands of years ago who would have savoured any young shoots of nettles or ramsons during winter. But let\’s admit, we are very grateful that we aren\’t limited to nettles all
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