|
|
QUICK LINKS: Order on-line for home delivery, with optional prepayment Pay for previous home delivery orders by Paypal
...or pay by Nochex
Download this week's Pick of the Crop Price List or the latest Grocery Popu-List Our latest newsletter Links to external sources of info NEWS: Mar 08: Goosemoor wins Best Green Business award! Mar 08: Goosemoor is the only Yorkshire supplier in Times Top 35! Feb 08: check out Where does the produce come from? Jan 08: What is the difference between Organic eggs and Free-Range? |
Horticulture at GoosemoorWhere do we grow our crops?In addition to 7 and a bit acres at our main site in Cowthorpe, we have 3 and a bit acres at Town End in Tockwith, which is the next village towards York (the bits add up to nearly another acre!).
We have a small solar-powered greenhouse, implemented to provide almost frost-free accommodation for early plant-raising with minimal energy consumption. The south-facing lean-to structure is made of second-hand Dutch lights, and uses a 'water wall' as a heat store, absorbing solar energy during the day, and radiating heat back out again at night. What do we grow?We operate a 6-year rotation of alliums, 2 legumes, roots, leaves/brassicas and squashes. We raise all our own plants, almost exclusively from organic seed, and using organic peat-free compost. Each spring we spread on the land a composted mixture of manure from our own pet animals plus plant wastes. Over winter we grow green manures on unused plots to further increase the fertility of the soil. We have never used any slaughterhouse-derived fertilisers such as blood & bone. Our range includes beetroot, broad beans, carrots, garlic, kohl rabi, French beans, runner beans, onions, shallots, & spinach, but we especially like to grow unusual crops, hence our interest in chilli peppers, salad leaf, squashes and old varieties of potatoes: Chilli peppers:
Salad Leaf:
Squashes:
Potatoes:
Who does the growing?
Florence the goat heads up the weed-control team with help (debateable!) from Zebedee. Lettie the donkey and Charlotte the horse lead the manure-production department with help from Chickens Tikka, Chow-Mein, Foo-Yung, Satay, Bhuna, & Korma. |
|
Send mail to
vegebox@goosemoor.info with
questions or comments about this web site.
|