Blackberries.
They grow in the hedgerows without being asked, cost nothing to establish, and turn into jam at £4.80 a jar. The only cost is scratched forearms.
- Cost to grow
- Nothing
- Becomes
- Blackberry Jam, £4.80
- Where
- Farm hedgerows
What actually happens with it.
They grow in the hedgerows without being asked, cost nothing to establish, and turn into jam at £4.80 a jar. The only cost is scratched forearms.
Farming the unfarmed — the margins, the hedges, the woodland edges — is one of the few genuinely free ideas in agriculture.
- Cost to grow: Nothing
- Becomes: Blackberry Jam, £4.80
- Where: Farm hedgerows
Drilled
Autumn or spring, depending on the year.
Grown
On Cotswold brash over limestone.
Harvested
Weather permitting, which is doing a lot of work in that sentence.
Sold
As something worth more than the raw crop.
The field this comes out of, in the season it looks best. It does not look like this in February.
Watch it grow.
The field cameras run all year, including the eleven months when nothing happens.
What people actually ask.
The two questions this page gets most, answered without a support ticket.
Because the worst ground costs more to crop than it returns, and because hedgerow, scrub and margin do measurable work that a combine never will.
The seasonal state at the top of every page is the short answer, and the farming year is the long one.
First sight of every drop
The things that sell out do it in minutes. This is the only warning anyone gets.
