I have always been interested in small scale organic vegetable growing: supported by and feeding, a local community of people. I think it goes deep, but a seed was certainly sown in me when reading Schumakers “small is beautiful” years ago.
The concept of community supported agriculture, which is what we do, lit a fire in me, the power of which is hard to describe, but which has provided the drive to establish this small business over the past 17 years.
Before that I had worked in Agricultural research after completing a Ph.D. study of clovers and one of their soil borne nematode pests, in Aberystwyth in the 1980s.
It has been an incredible journey of joy, suffering and discovery. I feel honoured to have been moulded by the land and its inhabitants and the weather into an organic grower over a decade and a half of economic and climatic turbulence.
I put my heart and soul into the vegetables you eat and I know that I have a team of people who are equally committed. This is not a lifestyle choice, this is serious stuff.