Liz Kameen
Week 18
In the field: Everything is growing so fast - it feels like you spend a day in the field weeding and doing things and there are more...
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A spontaneous visit to Cambridge Organic Food Company
As a student I did my undergrad degree at Cambridge University (a little known fact!) and haven't been back since I left, so this week...
Liz Kameen
Week 17
In the field: We are well and truly in the Hungry Gap - there's very limited UK produce and our own winter produce is all starting to go...
Liz Kameen
Week 16
In the field: It's all systems go in the field, the warmer weather is sending all the winter crops into flower, and so it's a case of...
Liz Kameen
Easter bunnies and words of wisdom from Captain Tom
Still no sign of the pesky wabbit in the polytunnel so keeping toes crossed he or she doesn't return. Only Easter bunnies evident over...
Liz Kameen
Spring sunshine to start the week
Hasn't it been glorious? The weeds think so too! And so it starts..... We think it's important with what we do to tell you all about...
Chris Kameen
Slow Veg! Grown and Delivered Locally
Finally after four and a half years we have sign written our vehicle! If you've been stuck behind this van before and wonderered what was...
Liz Kameen
Food security and pesky rabbits
We were given some additions to the list of roast veg tips we shared in last week's post - we've been told to try adding a whole garlic...
Liz Kameen
Perfectly roasted veg and all the wintery weather
Snow, sleet, rain, wind, and then heavy frost last night. We've had it all in the past few days. Even more ready for Spring than we were...
Liz Kameen
Things we wouldn't want to live without*
*This is not an finite list, we will add a Part 2 if and when necessary! We were away from home for a couple of days recently and...
Liz Kameen
Millet and planting spuds
Brr, it's a chilly one. Move over Winter, and let's be having you Spring- we're ready (eek)! We're busy in the shop, starting to get busy...
Chris Kameen
Kale flowers and a fresh leaf bounty
What a great harvest this week at the Vale Grocer, so exciting for this time of year. So far this week we have harvested a lot of leeks,...
Chris Kameen
Moving Polytunnels and the milk is back
Exciting times at the Vale Grocer, Spring is in the air, the weeds are starting to grow and the harvesting has started again. Liz and...
Liz Kameen
Surfers, sailing boats and sowing
One of those mornings. Wrote the newsletter early this morning and it didn't save so I lost it all. So it's going to be short and sweet...
Liz Kameen
Eating out locally and...sowing turnips
We've been really enjoying a few days of dry sunny weather, and the birds seem to be the same. Although we know Spring isn't here quite...
Liz Kameen
And we're into Feb!
The citrus coming in from our Spanish farms is fab at the moment- if you want to top up on fruit for your box, pop in to the shop. In the...
Liz Kameen
Aloo gobi and an early hungry gap
Our wholesaler this week has warned us about the likely lack of greens due to the recent wintery conditions - buckle up for that hungry...
Liz Kameen
Unnecessary price rises coming from suppliers?
The chairman of Tesco caused a bit of a stir the other day saying that food firms are raising prices unnecessarily and taking advantage...
Liz Kameen
Snowy, icy deliveries - 4WD much needed!
Our van may be tiny but it is mighty (and 4WD)! - don't know what we'd do without it in when the roads are as they are at the moment....
Liz Kameen
Rain and reviewing 2022
Wow, the rain! Annoying and unpleasant for us, but absolutely devastating for many of our suppliers. We get a weekly update from our...
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