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One 8th Of An Acre
Nature Powered 🌞 Human Scale 👨🏻‍🌾 Market Garden🥬🥕🍅
Hatch Beauchamp, Somerset, UK
Supplying Local Restaurants and Grocery Stores + Selling at Local Farmers Markets 🥒🧄

04/10/2026

We’ve been blessed with a very kind Autumn so far - lots of clear sunny days and just enough rain to take the edge off this year’s drought. Nearly all of the market garden has late season crops well established now, and what little remains of our summer crops will come out over the next two weeks to make way for our final winter salad sowings.
The warm September and early October has meant we have an abundance of Autumn greens, which is a relief after being short a month back. And our brassica block couldn’t be happier - our Purple Sprouting Broccoli is about three times the size that it was this time last year and looking more than ready to battle the colder months ahead. Elsewhere we have leeks sizing up nicely, a store room full of winter squash, lots of beets and carrots to be harvested between now and Christmas, and new blocks for next year under tarp and soon to be prepped so that we have just a little more growing space going forward…
Temperatures look to start dropping over the next week or so though, and daylight hours are noticeably decreasing, so the big growth slow-down is only just around the corner. It’s definitely the final push to have everything ready for the winter growing season, and we’re not far away from having just a little more time to spare each day!!
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17/09/2026

It’s always exciting when we start harvesting the first chicory. Their colours are always magical, and along with mustards and endive, they help to start pivoting the salad mix away from the lettuce heavy focus of summer, and into the more autumnal flavours. Each plant is like a work of art!!!
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24/07/2026

I mean…is there anything more beautiful than freshly picked, naturally grown, fossil fuel free local tomatoes?
For sure - it’s been hot and sweaty and the clouds have forgotten how to rain and there’s a million things to do, but it’s a small price to pay for getting to work in flavour town!!!
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20/07/2026

We’ve been harvesting more salad mix this summer than we ever have before. If you’re wanting to try it then you can find it on the shelves at:
Granny Smiths, Taunton
PB Fruits of Ilminster
Jordan’s Courtyard Deli, Ilminster
Kingsbury Community Shop, Kingsbury Episcopi
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And look out for it on the menu’s at:
Augustus Restaurant, Taunton
Meadow Cafe, Bishops Lydeard
Jordans Courtyard Cafe, Ilminster
The Canal Inn, Wrantage
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08/07/2026

Shallots For The Win!!🏆
Fast becoming one of our favourite crops, we’ve tripled our shallot game this season after they were stupidly popular last year. Started from seed back in January, they’ve pretty much been hassle free all the way through to harvest.
We’ll cure them for the next couple of weeks and then hopefully have them at markets all the way until spring next year.
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05/07/2026

As we crack on into July, no one can complain about it not being a proper summer this year! We’re so happy with our spring irrigation investments - a new header tank and submersible pump means that after four years of getting by, we now have all the pressure and flow that we need to provide water to the majority of the market garden, which is proving a massive time and energy saver.
For the most part, crops are thriving. Our summer salad mix is at its peak right now with amaranth, purslane, agretti, beet leaves and microgreens mixing it up with cos and loose leaf lettuce. Cucumbers and courgettes are loving the warmth, and we’ve managed earlier cherry tomatoes than previous seasons, although we’re probably a couple of weeks away from having all of the varieties contributing to our market punnets. As is the case this time every year, we’re itching for the first beefsteaks to start colouring up. The early trusses look great but excessive heat can mess with pollination so we’re hoping that there aren’t too many aborted flowers noticeable in a few weeks time as a result of the recent high temperatures.
Elsewhere, winter squash is starting to sprawl, shallots are looking epic, and weekly carrot harvesting is about to begin.
We can’t make out that everything’s a win though. We aimed for early french beans this season but a combination of poor germination and hungry rabbits has meant we might be later than last year to have them in any great numbers. And similarly with beets - whilst we’ve had harvests since the start of May, we haven’t had anywhere near enough to keep up with our farmers market demand so we’ll need to double down on our early spring sowings next year to help keep everyone happy.
We might be sweating it up right now and enjoying being preoccupied with summer but our thoughts have to start shifting to autumn and winter pretty promptly, as the window for getting many of the later season and overwintering crops in the ground comes and goes without mercy. The next month to six weeks will be a flurry of sowing and bed flipping, all the while keeping up with the daily duties of peak season.
There’s never a dull moment in this market garden game!!
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30/05/2026

With the onset of warm weather it’s all at full speed now in the market garden as the manic fun of peak season kicks in. Sowing, planting, harvesting, markets, deliveries, successes, failures, what ifs and next times!😀
We’ve had some big wins this spring with eight weeks of mangetout peas already and our most prolific rhubarb season to date. The summer crops are all in with cucumbers and french beans starting to take off and we could be harvesting our first courgettes next week. We’re excited about our beefsteak tomato varieties this year after a so so selection in ’25, and excitingly, our early cherry tomatoes are ripening as we speak so we’re optimistic about enjoying those first flavour bombs well before the end of June.🍅
Obviously, it’s not all smooth sailing, with some frustrating germination issues in the nursery delaying some plantings, and this year has confirmed beyond all doubt that attempts at early carrot sowings are a waste of time and seed for us in our slow to warm up soil. But, touch wood, the wins are by far outweighing the losses so far this season so overall the vibes are high!!🙌
For those asking, you can find us at these markets this year:
Midsomer Norton - First Saturday of the month
Frome Boyle Cross - Second Saturday of the month
Sherborne - Third Sunday of the Month
Crewkerne - Fourth Saturday of the month
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19/02/2026

Oh we love the second half of February!! 🥳
With daylight hours finally getting back above 10 hours again, plants begin to come out of their winter slumber and start to - albeit slowly - put on new growth once more. At this point, the worst of the harsher months feel like they’ve been overcome for another year, and moments of sunshine and the first of the flowers tease that spring isn’t too far away.🌞
Things really start to roll from this point on with lots of new sowings going on in the nursery, cover crops being terminated, beds getting prepped, and our overwintered crops are just starting to show signs of readiness.🥦
Nothings ever a doddle though, with our local rabbit population seeming to be particularly hungry at present, forcing us to have nearly every bed protected from them in some way or another. And let’s not talk about all the rain, apart from saying that we’re so grateful to be farming on sloping land!!

30/01/2026

Claytonia - truly living up to its reputation this winter!! 🍃🏆🌱 In past years we were a little disappointed with this leaf as we had a frustrating amount of discoloured leaves and it never seemed to live up to its hype. But we’ve given the plants more space this time around and the difference is night and day, with it making up a good percentage of the salad mix right now whilst lettuces hybernate.
Our overwintered mangetout peas don’t seem to mind sharing a space with them for now either so wins all around!! 🙌

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Capland
Hatch Beauchamp

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+447765328855

Website

http://caplandacre.com/

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