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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

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

In October 2016 we were creating our first veggie beds and embarking on putting up our first polytunnel. Since then we’ve supplied hundreds of veg boxes to local people, attended community events, supplied local restaurants, showed scores of people around and loved (almost) every minute. We’ve received great response to our enterprise, with people both loving the

Vegetable smoothies and juices are definitely on trend. Whilst offering a great way of getting your five-a-day we definitely advocate enjoying a glass of beetroot juice as part of a balance diet, rather than a meal supplement….we sure can’t weed on vegetable juice alone! But these juices are a great way of enjoying our nutrient

It’ll come as no surprise that we are big veg eaters here at the Real Food Garden, but sometimes we all need a sweet pick me up. After experimenting with a variety of savoury veg recipes we’ve recently turned our hand to baking some sweetmeats to sustain us through the afternoon weeding! Here are some

Recently we visited a good friend at Woodland Valley Farm near Laddock. Chris Jones farms in an inspiring way. He expects a lot from himself as farmer and guardian of the land and he expects a lot from his farming. I knew several years ago that Chris had turned his grass-dominated fields over to herbal

Yesterday I saw a baby grass snake on our compost pile. I beamed with joy and awe at this amazing creature and the first thing I thought was “yet another reason I love being organic”. Like hundreds of other growers and farmers in the UK and amongst thousands across the world and millions in the