Cân y Pridd Market Garden

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The carrots are flowering!These are part of an experimental cross and a chance for me to practice growing carrot for see...
18/06/2026

The carrots are flowering!

These are part of an experimental cross and a chance for me to practice growing carrot for seed- lifting in the autumn, selecting the best roots with the qualities I want to keep, preparing them for storage, storing over the winter and replanting in the spring.
It'll be interesting to see what the offspring of this seed will look like- watch this space!

Meanwhile, the flowering umbels have been very popular with the insects, and im hoping they help encourage insects like the parasitic wasps that predate on hungry cabbage white caterpillars. Its great to have all these flowering seed crops in amongst the market garden!

Instagram audio doesnt have Neutral Milk Hotel 'King of Carrot Flowers' which is disappointing

We're lucky to have inherited the most gorgeous hedgerows on our farm. They're brimming with life and contain so many sp...
02/06/2026

We're lucky to have inherited the most gorgeous hedgerows on our farm. They're brimming with life and contain so many species including dog rose, elder, hawthorn, blackthorn, field maple, hazel, elm, oak and more...and thats just the trees, they're also home to plenty of plant, birds and insects too.

Our plans over the next few years is to increase the number of hedgerows, gap up and improve existing ones and plant lots more trees for habitat and windbreak across the farm. The need to increase shade and protect crops from wind has become very evident this year. We also need to think more about how trees can help us manage water, improving water retention in the summer and infiltration in the winter. As the trees along the stream grow their roots should help to prevent the intense erosion from the fast moving water.

Hedges and trees are a huge part of what makes our land not only joyful to work, but in keeping it all in ecological balance that enhances the food we produce.

400 squash plants in the ground with great help from enthusiastic volunteers yesterday.Theresots of varieties that im ex...
31/05/2026

400 squash plants in the ground with great help from enthusiastic volunteers yesterday.
Theresots of varieties that im excited about this year- familiar and new.
Im on a quest to find the perfect squash for our box scheme. Criteria: beautiful, tasty, stores well, around 1kg or less. What are your favourites?

Im growing black futsu, uchiki kuri, green hokkaido, meruhen, butternut, desert spirit landrace, tuffy, sweet dumpling, candystick desert delicata, zeppelin delicata and syrian raqqa.

We're moving into summer salads and there are some exciting new leaves I'm bringing into the summer mixes this year. Thi...
31/05/2026

We're moving into summer salads and there are some exciting new leaves I'm bringing into the summer mixes this year. This salad mix contains...
Lettuce can can, lettuce apache, bulls blood, dull, pea shoots, red orache jezercë, nasturtium, summer purslane, mallow leaf, buckshorn plantain, agretti and chervil.
I'll also be brining in salad burnet (photo 4- amazing seeds) and Stridolo and Horn of plenty from a couple of my favourite seed companies and vital seeds

Its been a huge week here on the farm! The temperatures have been extremely hard to work through and we've been doing ve...
28/05/2026

Its been a huge week here on the farm! The temperatures have been extremely hard to work through and we've been doing very early starts and late nights and passing out around midday- exhausted, sweating and headachey.
The plants have put on so much growth in the last week especially the tomatoes, the field has been cut and baled for silage, big compost delivery from and most excitingly we have big new fridges! This is a massive game changer in this heat. No more 5am starts to pack veg boxes! (Hopefully)

First proper broad bean harvest going into the veg boxes this week- plucked from these excessively tall plants in the po...
26/05/2026

First proper broad bean harvest going into the veg boxes this week- plucked from these excessively tall plants in the polytunnel.

Excited for water melons!! Refreshments now please. Working outdoors in this heat is killer. We are having to stick to e...
26/05/2026

Excited for water melons!!
Refreshments now please. Working outdoors in this heat is killer. We are having to stick to early mornings and evenings and having a siesta in between (which is actually pretty great).

A lovely article put together by The Landworkers' Alliance in the first year of the market garden.It's amazing to reflec...
24/05/2026

A lovely article put together by The Landworkers' Alliance in the first year of the market garden.
It's amazing to reflect back on how much we achieved in our first season here at Wern Farm, from breaking ground for the first time (cultivating permenant pasture without a tractor is not easy) to setting up new markets from scratch. Then there was building polytunnels, running events and tours, setting up infrastructure and irrigation, getting to grip with finances and business planning and of course, actually growing all the vegetables and seeds!

It's been a pleasure to forge new connections in our community harvest veg, watch trees grow and welcome the birds and insects that pass through!

The late spring salad going out this week is brimming with a diversity of forms and flavours:Can can lettuce, apache let...
19/05/2026

The late spring salad going out this week is brimming with a diversity of forms and flavours:

Can can lettuce, apache lettuce from , moon red lettuce, pruple frills, golden frills, mizuna, buckshorn plantain, French sorrel, broad beans shoots, pea shoots, red orache, bulls blood beet leaves- fresh and delcious!

This mix is off to two brilliant local businesses and as well as our lovely veg box customers.

I grow the Red Orache 'jezercë' and Purple frills mustard for seed. You can buy the seeds via online shop or via
Ooooby shop.

An epic mass shelling of Domino Dwarf French Beans and Clun Green Man Festival -nimble fingers and great chats!These see...
04/05/2026

An epic mass shelling of Domino Dwarf French Beans and Clun Green Man Festival -nimble fingers and great chats!

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