Moyns Park Organics is a market garden, located in the upper Stour valley on the Essex/Suffolk border, and is based in the old kitchen garden on the historic and beautiful Moyns Park Estate. From there, using growing methods that respect the soil and the natural environment, a wide range of seasonal vegetables, herbs, and fruit are grown year-round, to supply a home delivered veg box scheme and regular Farmers’ Market stalls.
The vegetable boxes delivered by Moyns Park Organics are unlike many others, in that customers can select the contents of their box from a regularly updated availability list. For the adventurous there is an option to select a ‘standard box’ – if you don’t mind the odd surprise, or if you just want to test your culinary skills. Choice also extends to the regularity that you order; there is no obligation to take a box every week, just as and when you would like one.
Our Soil Association certificate
We grow as much of the produce that goes into the boxes that we can on our 2 acres, however, particularly during the lean months of winter we source some crops from other certified organic farms in East Anglia to supplement our own production.”
Compost Blog Posts
The big chill
I can't recall an April such as this one; there have been frosts every night for well over a week now. It's by no means unusual to have frost at this time of year, but less so to have such a consecutive run of them. Slightly more predictable has been the sustained...
Limited choice
I am not a big watcher of television; sure, there are a few things that I view on a regular basis, but ours is not one of those households where the box is always on in the background irrespective of what's being shown, so it really didn't bother me. However, I do...
A week of two halves
One doth not a summer make, but I was delighted to see my first Swallow of the year this afternoon flying just behind the cottage. Confused? It will be tomorrow when the temperature plunges to 6° during the day, and sub zero overnight, it will wish that it had delayed...
“Organic farming appealed to me because it involved searching for and discovering nature’s pathways, as opposed to the formulaic approach of chemical farming. The appeal of organic farming is boundless; this mountain has no top, this river has no end.”
Eliot Coleman, The New Organic Grower
Moyns Park Estate | Birdbrook | Halstead | Essex | CO9 4BP
info@moynsparkorganics.co.uk | 07772 457063
