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2-Acre Certified Organic market garden selling seasonal salads, greens and vegetables locally

Get your weekly veg box at:
https://openfoodnetwork.org.uk/oakcroft-organics/shop

08/06/2026

Our boxes start on Thursday! Don't Forget to order yours by tomorrow to get your delivered to your door, or to pick it up from one of our free collection points around Malpas!

You can order yours at:
www.oakcroft.org.uk

We have two box sizes this year- small and medium. Boxes are flexible and low effort- you can swap out disliked produce and pause deliveries if you go on holiday. You can also add additional produce on top of your regular box.

If our boxes don't offer enough of choice for you, you can create a custom box order every week to arrive at your door instead! You can add anything you want to your basket until Tuesday evening when orders are processed. We will then harvest for your order and delivery fresh to you on Thursdays.

Alternatively, you can collect your produce from one of our free pickup points below!
-Our Farm, Oakcroft Organic Market Garden on the outskirts of Malpas,
-The Lost Barn Coffee Roasters
-Cholmondeley Farm Shop and Cafe
-The Cheese Shop, Chester

You can also find us at one of our Saturday markets around Cheshire.
1st Saturday: Rode Hall Farmers market
2nd Saturday (THIS WEEK): Northwich Market
3rd Saturday: Wilmslow Market (Temporary, usually Chester Market)
4th Saturday: Frodsham Market

04/06/2026

Leek planting!

We had the dream team yesterday- three lovely volunteers who joined us for the day and helped us with the never ending job of planting leeks!

Leek planting is a fun but laborious job. We plant our leeks super deep (and use a drill auger to do so!) so we get super long white stems on them, all the more to use in cooking! Each hole is made, then a leek is dropped in, and it will slowly grow through the summer for us to harvest from early autumn.

Few other notes from us:

Our markets start THIS Saturday! Find us at this Saturday for our first round of early summer produce! Highlights include: broad beans, garlic scapes, radishes, salads, kale, chard, mangetout peas and much more!

Our monthly market Schedule this year is:

First Saturday: Rode Hall Farmers Market
Second Saturday: Northwich Market
Third Saturday: Wilmslow Market (temporary only for June, as our Chester market is closed)
Fourth Saturday: Frodsham Market

If you are unable to make any of our markets, then our first Box delivery is next Thursday! Make sure you have signed up to get yours on our website (www.oakcroft.org.uk)

28/05/2026

Fourteen days to go until our boxes start! 🔥

If you haven't signed up for this seasons boxes, you can still do so via our website! (www.oakcroft.org.uk) It's as simple as creating an account, adding your chosen size box to your basket and setting the delivery frequency!

We are also happy to announce the start of our markets next week! Our first farmers market will be at Rode Hall Farmers market, a new market location for us!

There has been a shift to the weather this last week. Everything had been growing at a crawl due to the abysmal early May. But it's amazing what a few hot days can do! We are just days away from starting to harvest from the farm in earnest after the 'Hungry Gap', always a very exciting time of the year!

22/05/2026

Pumpkin planting! ❤️

We love pumpkins and winter squashes- they are an autumnal delight that we look forward to every year! Yet they take a very long time to grow and produce the fruit that we adore. In fact, they are one of the first things that we plant after the last spring frost in order to give them as much time to mature and produce as possible.

However, farming doesn't always go to plan. These were due to be planted last week, but the May weather has been quite unfavourable. With cold and windy nights and even a late frost last week we held out planting them until the weather forecast improved, despite them getting too big for their pots!

We have planted 4 delicious varieties this year, some old favorites and some new test varieties which we have high hopes for! We can't wait for you to try them in autumn!

08/05/2026

Do you remember our cover crop from 6 weeks ago? 🌾 🌿

We'll look at it now! In the last 6 weeks, it has put on phenomenal growth due to the warm weather and lengthening days and it is currently at shoulder height! We have been watching it grow with delight, and appreciating all the benefits it has brought to our soils.

What you see in the photos is a cover crop of Rye and Vetch. It was sown in October last year, just as our summer/early autumn crops were finishing and germinated before the cold set in, protecting our soils over winter from errosion. From spring, they grow exponentially and whilst they grow, the rye captures carbon from the atmosphere and locks it into our soils via its root system, whilst the vetch (part of the legume family) fixes nitrogen from the atmosphere for our future crops. But there is far more happening under the surface- a veritable banquet and a thriving ecosystem of fungi, bacteria and invertebrates (and more!) all present only due to the cover crop. Where soil might have stood bare from October, instead it provides habitat, both below as well as above ground and contributes to our immediate biodiversity.

But now, it is time to terminate it. It has done an amazing job building our soil fertility, so we mow it down and allow it to decompose. What will follow will be some of the happiest and healthiest crops one could grow, in soil which is thriving.

04/05/2026

Our Box Sign-ups are now open!

Our veg boxes start again in only 5 weeks! We are super excited to offer hassle free veg box subscriptions this year! Sign up on our website (www.oakcroft.org.uk, or click the link in our bio) to not miss out on our limited boxes for the season!

How does is work?
Sign up to our website, select a delivery method or collection point and add a box to your basket. Simple as that! You will then receive a share of our produce in June when our boxes start up. Seasonal boxes will run from June till December, filled with goodies all grown by us!l.

Box subscriptions are super flexible, you can swap out veg you don't like, or add additional produce for that one off garden party you are planning! Go to www.oakcroft.org.uk/how-ordering-works for more detailed guidance on our ordering system.

Home delivery available, and free collection point pickups around Malpas. We are also happy to announce that we have a new collection point in Chester this year for all our Chester customers!

Have any questions? Don't hesitate to get in touch via social media or email. Email us at [email protected].

29/04/2026

700+ tomato plants planted! ❤️ 🍅

Can you taste them already? Because we are so excited for the upcoming tomato season- with 11 varieties just planted (some old favorites and some new ones as well!) we are excited to bring you a range of colours, flavours and shapes!

Tomato planting is one of my favourite jobs on the farm (if you haven't guessed already, anything involving tomatoes is a favourite job of mine). It takes weeks of preparation, clearing out our over wintered tunnel crops, feeding beds with compost, digging holes, planting and stringing them up, but it's all worth it.

Now starts the seemingly endless job of pruning and trellising 700 plants until October!

22/04/2026

First courgette planting!

The days are starting to warm up, but the nights are still cold. Many of our summer crops are frost sensitive and one cold and frosty night can devastate an entire early planting! In order to get courgettes to you super early, we plant our first succession under cover in structures that we have designed and made ourselves- 'low tunnels'. These low tunnels are a small mobile polytunnel that are relatively easy to erect or deconstruct. These will provide the much needed protection to our tender courgettes over these cold April nights before they are moved over to our outdoor pepper beds, where they will remain for the rest of the summer. Already, they have earned their keep, protecting our tender courgettes from two frosty nights of -1°C!

15/04/2026

Planting is in full swing! 🌱

It's been a busy last couple of weeks on the farm, with loads of bed preparation, broad forking of beds, feeding with compost, terminating cover crop and of course, planting.

Our early brassicas are now in, including our first successions of chard, peas and onions. Much more to come over the next few weeks, with tomatoes, cucumbers and early courgettes being planted in our tunnels as well!

A beautiful and productive time of year!

01/04/2026

Potting on our tomatoes! 🍅 ❤️

We have an exciting lineup of heirloom tomatoes this year- a total of eleven varieties! Some are old favorites and seeds we keep year upon year, others are new to us and we hope to add them to our permanent collection.

Started in their cells weeks ago, they have now grown to size where they need potting into larger pots, before we transplant them into our glasshouses and polytunnels, which is only a few short weeks away! At this time of year they grow extraordinarily fast and will take over our propagation house in no time!

Tomato care is one of our favorite jobs on the farm, from sowing to planting, to pruning and harvesting. Handling the plants releases a strong tomato smell that definitely reminds us of summertime. Who doesn't love a good tomato?

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Malpas
SY148DH

Website

http://www.oakcroft.org.uk/

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