Potatoes.
The crop that accidentally created the entire retail business. Roughly forty tonnes of potatoes were produced with no obvious buyer, so a shed was opened to sell them. That shed is now the Diddly Squat Farm Shop.
- The original
- ~40 tonnes
- Consequence
- The farm shop
- Year
- 2020
What actually happens with it.
The crop that accidentally created the entire retail business. Roughly forty tonnes of potatoes were produced with no obvious buyer, so a shed was opened to sell them. That shed is now the Diddly Squat Farm Shop.
There is no better illustration of how this estate actually grew: a surplus, a problem, and a solution that turned out to be worth more than the crop.
- The original: ~40 tonnes
- Consequence: The farm shop
- Year: 2020
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.
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.
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