by admin | Dec 15, 2024 | Uncategorized
Christmas is coming at us at the speed of Casey Jones at the throttle of the Cannonball Express! A reference that will be lost on most of you young things, but along with Champion the Wonder Horse it was a staple of children’s TV when I was a youngster. Anyway,...
by admin | Dec 8, 2024 | Uncategorized
Don’t get too excited, but we have had a temporary stay of execution. There will be mushrooms for at least this week. Clearly the wind-down in production at the farm does not have a clean cut-off as there will be batches of fungi growing at different rates, and...
by admin | Dec 1, 2024 | Uncategorized
No progress has been made in the pursuit of an alternative supplier of organic mushrooms. In fact it has been quite depressing to discover that there appears to almost be a cartel of mushrooms growers that have stitched up the market. Every enquiry that I have made...
by admin | Nov 24, 2024 | Uncategorized
What is going on with the weather? It’s completely nuts. For most of last week I was freezing cold, scraping ice from the van and turning the water off overnight in the greenhouse to avoid burst pipes, trussed up in multiple layers looking like an extra in one...
by admin | Nov 17, 2024 | Uncategorized
I returned from my weekend trip to the Peak District just over an hour ago. I’ve had a nice cup of tea and a luxurious hot shower and I now feel refreshed, if a little tired. It wasn’t a late night of debauchery – far from it, I was in bed by 10.30!...
by admin | Nov 10, 2024 | Uncategorized
Well, it was an exciting morning at the farmers’ market at Wyken yesterday. I had just about finished setting up my stall when one of the other stallholders, April, approached me clutching a bundle of something close to her chest. Wrapped up in her cardigan was...
