The Market Garden Plot.
A small area of intensive vegetable growing for the shop and the café. High value per square metre, which is the only justification for the labour it takes.
- Scale
- Small
- For
- The shop and the café
- Logic
- Value per square metre
What this ground is like.
A small area of intensive vegetable growing for the shop and the café. High value per square metre, which is the only justification for the labour it takes.
Cotswold brash varies enormously within a single holding and sometimes within a single headland — sandy loam in one corner, blackgrass-loving clay in the next. That variability is the whole agronomic argument for variable-rate everything.
- Scale: Small
- For: The shop and the café
- Logic: Value per square metre
- Verdict: The only intensive growing that makes sense here
Soil
The shop and the café
Position
Small
Usually
The shop and the café
Verdict
The only intensive growing that makes sense here
This field, in the season it looks best. It does not look like this in February.
The other fields.
Curdle Hill
Part of the original Sarsden estate holding, and the field the whole farm is measured against. Mid-slope, deeper than the…
The Brash Tops
The high ground, where there is fifteen centimetres of stony soil over limestone and nothing to hold water. In a…
The Bottoms
The valley ground. Heavier, wetter and the one place on this farm where drainage work genuinely pays for itself rather…
Blackgrass Corner
The heavier ground where blackgrass took hold years ago and has never fully let go. Later drilling, spring cropping and…
The Wildflower Ground
Taken out of production on purpose and sown with wildflowers. It produces nothing you can eat and is, on the…
The Barley Block
Roughly five hundred acres across several parcels, and the reason the brewery exists. Enough barley for about one and a…
Take one for a season.
Fixed price, paid once, produce delivered in kind.
What people actually ask.
The two questions this page gets most, answered without a support ticket.
The farming does not. It made a hundred and forty-four pounds in its first year and has rarely done much better. Everything else on this site exists because of that.
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.
