Capland Acre, Capland, Hatch Beauchamp (2026)

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 🥒🧄

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!! 🙌

25/01/2026

We’ve been gently easing back into things over the last couple of weeks after our end of season break. Whilst we won’t be at any farmers markets until mid February, our winter salad mix is back on the grocery store shelves and our microgreens will be joining them next week. 🥗🥬
Apart from some tried and tested early direct sowings of baby greens, we’re in no rush to be getting a jump on the new season just yet. Generally speaking, the bulk of our spring sowings are made in the first and second weeks of February, so until then the ‘winter jobs’ take priority - all the non glamorous jobs that are never pressing enough to tackle during the main season, but which make life so much easier once completed, such as spring cleaning our nursery tunnel, turning and beginning new compost piles, running new irrigation lines and general tidying up. The big job that’s always a weight off the shoulders once finished is the seed order, as there’s nothing worse than leaving it too late and finding out that preferred varieties have already sold out. Fresh seeds filling up the letter box in mid to late January definitely helps to generate some excitement for the new season. 🍃🌱
But on the whole, nothing happens quickly at this time of year, and that’s ok with us. Once mid February hits it’s a sprint all the way to December again, so we’re happy to make the most of these calmer winter weeks before really getting going again next month! 😎👨🏻‍🌾

23/12/2025

Yesterday was our final day of deliveries for the calendar year and with grocery stores stocked up with our winter salad mixes and microgreens for the festive period, an escape to warmer lands for a couple of weeks’ worth of R&R awaits!! 🌞🛫🌅
Looking back on our third full season of growing, the overarching feeling is that the year was so much calmer than the previous two - with much less of the stress and anxiousness that invariably comes with the establishing of a new business. That’s not in any way to to say it was easy - there were crops that didn’t work out as hoped and techniques we regretted, and the work to life balance is still way out of kilter, but the failings open doors to future possibilities and thinking about all the ways in which we can improve on what we did this year makes the thought of next season already exciting.
We have to say a huge thank you to all the farmers market, restaurant, grocery store and home delivery customers that have been so supportive of us in ’25 and helped to position us ready to really kick on next year.
Have a great Xmas and New Years and we’ll see you all in 2026!!
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02/05/2025

To date we haven’t done too well incorporating green manures into our cropping plan, but as we start to focus in on what we grow each year some spaces are starting to open up. We managed to sow a few beds of an impromptu phacelia, clover and oats mix last autumnn and the bees are now absolutely loving them. With the overwintered brassicas now having gone to flower there’s no shortage of colour. And with all this sunshine the spring vibes are aplenty this year!!!
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Hatch Beauchamp

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