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Fresh, Local, seasonal, ethically and ecologically grown Fruits, Vegetables and Wholefoods delivered Welcome to Oxtons. All with out having to leave your home.

Located on a 12 acre small-holding nestled amongst the green fertile fields of the Vale of Evesham, Oxton Organics has been providing our local community with the finest home grown organic fruits and vegetables for more than 24 years. Everything that we grow is grown with love, respect and care for the land, the planet and the community. Thats why you can be sure that when you order from Oxtons yo

u are not only buying delicious organic produce, you are also helping to build a truly sustainable future. We believe that small scale, local, agro-ecological farming is the only way to meet the needs of the future and provide true food security for future generations. We don’t believe in merely exploiting the land to meet our needs, but in enriching and fostering the land so that all its human and non-human inhabitants can benefit. We combine the wealth of knowledge and experience gathered during 30 years of organic growing, with the inspiration and ideas of emerging movements such as Permaculture and Agro-forestry, to produce truly organic, truly sustainable produce. In order to bring our produce to our local community we run a vegetable box scheme. That means we deliver a box of delicious produce your door every week (in our zero emissions electric van!). Freshly picked seasonal fruits and vegetables from our land are supplemented with produce from our trusted wholesalers, along side a wide range of ethically sourced whole foods supplied by Essential Workers co-operative. Boxes come in two forms; Standard boxes & eBoxes. When you register for standard box we pack a selection of the best seasonal produce for you, taking all your likes and dislikes into consideration. Alternatively, if you like things more your own way then you can order an eBox, and select exactly what you want from the products listed on the website. If you are interested in registering for a box then please visit the website; Oxtonorganics.co.uk or give us a call on 01386 860 477

05/09/2026

Blink and you will miss them. Swallows that built a nest in our porch, frantically feeding their young in time for the big migration.
Hornets built a nest under the wooden boards above the bay windows. I’ve loved watching these gentle giants go about their business.
Team Oxton’s is feeling blessed for many reasons. Cherishing life and full of joy and admiration for the farm that turned green this week.
Sun, warmth and rain what a wonderful start to autumn.

01/09/2026

Pasture suffered so badly in the drought and heat, so I have decided to over seed a couple of acres. If it works well I will wish I’d done more.
Hopefully it will germinate fast with the soil so damp and warm.
Some areas are greening up, resisting putting the sheep on to give the plants time to recover, yet where to graze them in the meantime.

27/08/2026

Small selection of the tasty produce we picked and packed for this weeks veg boxes. What a wonderful time of year for home grown produce.
Link in the bio to sign up for a veg box

24/08/2026

During the last heatwave we had a lot of chicory to plant. Frankly I was really worried about bare soil and tender plants in the 38c heat. So we took all steps we could think of to ensure a success.
Starting at 5am, compost extract and biofertiliser was sprayed on the soil when cultivating, planted as fast as possible and hand watered.
We decided to try sprinkling a fine layer of sawdust, thinking the pale sawdust might reflect light and reduce soil heating. Then we covered with two layers of crop covers. 10 beds planted before 11am we were glad to get out of the field.
When I checked later in the day soil was cooler under the sawdust.
Despite all our efforts the young transplants suffered some scorch, luckily not enough to cause a big set back and they are growing beautifully now.

19/08/2026

Since last Thursday when the temperature reached 38c here, apples have been falling off the trees. Many having visible pale soft circles on the top half. Cutting reveals a soft brown area that smells like cooked apple. Which is exactly what it is. We’ve lost at least half our crop.
The same happened to Bramley apples in June, up until now the desert varieties seemed more resilient. Pic 2 healthy side of Spartan apple on left, sun scorched on right.
Trees and hedges all over the farm are severely stressed, quite a few have died. Photos are from just a short area of hedge. These images are replicated all along our hedges.

13/08/2026

Everywhere on the farm there are growing challenges, from top fruit to salad crops and winter greens harvests are down.
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12/08/2026

If ever I needed convincing under sowing and living pathways are worth working to achieve this year has me utterly convinced.
35c outside, I’ve taken to going in to the tunnels in the heat of the day to see how the plants were doing.
Inside the lush green polytunnels it is markedly cooler, especially the tomato tunnel with the best cover crop. Pepper and aubergine tunnel a little hotter but not as hot as the bare baked farm outside.
I am waiting until the weather cools to mow the cover crops under the tomatoes, preferring the cooling green leaves. So many customers on holidays we wait until the end of August before stripping leaves to push ripening.
It has been an incredibly water related stressful time recently.
The tunnels offered some light relief in the midst of it today.

29/07/2026

Every season has winners and losers. This years winners are the fruiting crops, irresistible cucumbers, peppers ripening 3 weeks earlier than usual, the most flavoursome tomatoes and aubergines.
More butterflies than I have seen for years and swallows feasting on all the insects. Sadly very free Bumble bees here.
Alas all veg is not happy, brassicas hate the heat, runner beans flowering for weeks without a single bean, lettuce bolting early.
For a second year running the pasture has dried to a crisp, I am running out of grazing, even for my few sheep.
It certainly is a hard season overall, diversity of crops, cover crops, trying to improve soil health helps for sure.
We feel stronger than ever the importance of producing good quality fruit and veg for the local community.
Supporting your local agroecologial farms is a win win. The right choice for the environment, your health, and the farmers.

06/07/2026

Second hoeing for these crops, so it is time to drill a diverse cover crop and mow pathways, blowing as much of the clippings over the bed to help protect the soil from the intense sunlight.
Looking beautiful we earned Mollies approval. 🐕
Squash seems to be enjoying the sunshine. We’ve mulched the pathways with straw from some local thatchers. Feels like a great use for 30yr old grass. (Still looking for more old thatch)
The mulch is not thick enough to kill the pathways we just want to knock them back giving the squash time to out compete the couch. First year we have done this so we will see how it goes.
Meanwhile rest of the farm has taken on that golden parched look yet again and I’m dreaming of becoming a fig farmer

20/06/2026

Before and after mowing the cover crop under the tomatoes and peppers. We liked last years mix of ribwort plantain, chicory and trefoil drilled near the edge of the beds, it terminated without a problem so we have sown the same again.
Tunnels are looking beautiful atm, first cues will be going in the boxes this week and peppers are growing well.
What are the white flags about?
Last autumn we spread windfall apples on the cover crop, mowed and mattocked them into the surface before planting winter crops (there’s a post on here somewhere). We’ve had a few apple trees pop up, some we transplanted into the corners, some we can mow around and lift in the autumn. I don’t think they will trouble the tomato plants and make an unusual addition to tunnel diversity.
We will plant them in the pasture.

Address

Broadway Lane, Fladbury
Pershore
WR102QF

Telephone

+441386860477

Website

http://oxtonorganics.co.uk/

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