Echium.
An unusual crop grown for its oil, and one of several attempts here to find something with a better margin than commodity cereals.
- Grown for
- Speciality oil
- Status
- Experimental
What actually happens with it.
An unusual crop grown for its oil, and one of several attempts here to find something with a better margin than commodity cereals.
Most of these experiments do not work. That is the nature of an experiment, and documenting the failures is more useful than only reporting the successes.
- Grown for: Speciality oil
- Status: Experimental
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.
