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better business
As a grower in the 90s, when supermarkets first started selling organic produce, I got used to regular abuse from ambitious supermarket buyers with no knowledge of or interest in vegetables, let alone...
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a little help from our spanish friends
With continuing cold weather holding back growth, combined with some crop losses from the extreme cold before Christmas, we are very short of homegrown greens, forcing us to import more than we would...
View Articleguy’s weekly new: asparagus, optimism & relief
A cool May has restrained the flowering urges of our purple sprouting broccoli, leeks and cauliflower, giving us the bonus of an extra two to three weeks’ picking. With the barns empty and the last of...
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Ben’s wine blog: The wine in Spain comes mainly from the plain and by Jove...
Spain, once European viticulture’s poor cousin, land of Don Simon tetrapak and worse, has woken from the dead. Drive south from Madrid to Granada and you ill still see the industrial stainless steel...
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Ben’s wine blog: Dominio de Punctum’s Finca Fabian
Ben took a trip to Spain to meet the producers of an organic wine that’s head and shoulders above the rest. The Fernandez family When I first tasted Dominio de Punctum’s Finca Fabian wine three years...
View ArticleGuy’s newsletter: competition, collaboration & car manufacture
Last week we were visited by some of our growers from Andalucia. For years they’ve produced veg for us that we can’t grow at home without heating with fossil fuels. As I approached Pepe, who this year...
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Make your own marmalade
A calming January marmalade-making session is a good antidote to the mayhem of Christmas and New Year. Put the radio on, get peeling, slicing and simmering, and fill your house with the distinctive...
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