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Grown in the dark, sold in a crisp

Mushrooms.

Chapter 22 was called Mushrooming, and this is what it was about. They end up in the Mushroom and Wild Garlic crisps, alongside wild garlic that also grows here uninvited.

Chapter
22 — Mushrooming
Becomes
Mushroom & Wild Garlic crisps
The detail

What actually happens with it.

Chapter 22 was called Mushrooming, and this is what it was about. They end up in the Mushroom and Wild Garlic crisps, alongside wild garlic that also grows here uninvited.

Ocado reported searches for lion’s mane mushrooms up 482 per cent week-on-week after the episode aired. That is the Clarkson effect, measured.

  • Chapter: 22 — Mushrooming
  • Becomes: Mushroom & Wild Garlic crisps
The year

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.

What it looks like

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.

Wondering

What people actually ask.

The two questions this page gets most, answered without a support ticket.

The seasonal state at the top of every page is the short answer, and the farming year is the long one.

Not on foot, most of the year — it is a working farm with machinery in it. The cameras, the virtual walk and the footpaths are the honest alternatives.

The estate list

The honest version, fortnightly

No campaign calendar, no filler. When there is nothing to say we do not send anything.

Next along the route

The whole rotation

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