First sale of vegetables from the Oak Tree Low Carbon Farm

Saturday 26^th June was a big day for The Oak Tree Low Carbon Farm – we sold our first vegetables! We'd just got to the point where there was too much for us to eat, so it seemed like a good moment to start selling!

Here is our very first customer with her bag of spinach at the Ripple Food Coop, held alternate Saturdays in the centre of Ipswich.

Dead Pigeons

Pigeons are a massive pest. Given half a chance they would east all my brassicas (I cover them in fleece, though I may try enviromesh in the future) and they are massing daily on the clover green manure that covers half the field. So I am delighted when a friend, Bob, comes and shoots them once a week. Even better, he gives me some to eat and I have just enjoyed roast pigeon for tea with the very first of the carrots and spinach from The Oak Tree. Soon I hope to have enough vegetables to sell!