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What are you planning to grow ???
This is, hopefully, the start of the local food network that members of the Green Valley Grocer have wanted from the beginning of the project. Post your plans, ideas, seed orders and anything else that pertains to growing food on your patch.
Use the forum to communicate with other growers and share ideas.
Post your thoughts about how you think a local food network might work - and how you might fit into it.
This is the beginning and we have everything to play for !
Helen
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Local food growing for next year
Thanks Helen for this!
If all goes according to plan(!), we'll have rhubarb to sell in spring and then asparagus in early June. We should be able to supply a good quantity of gooseberries, redcurrants and blackcurrants in July/August, as this year. Later we will have some blueberries and plums, and later still dessert apples (discovery, greensleeves and other assorted varieties in smaller quantities) and cookers (bramley, lord derby, grenadier).
The veg plan is still a work in progress but I'll post here when we finalise our order. We will probably order seeds again from Tozers (http://www.tozerseedsdirect.com/), who are breeders and excellent value if you want larger quantities than the regular seed companies sell. They also have new varieties coming on line all the time.
We hope that in the future the GVG can offer as much local produce as 'non-local' (in season) to help reduce our food miles and be more sustainable.
Ange n Mike at Wellhouse
Local Growing
(comment copied from http://www.slaithwaite.coop/node/34#comments)
Hi,
I sold my excess to the shop last year and that was great.
I am happy to grow more excess this year but maybe we need to work together so we dont have gluts.
Pricing policy worked fine last year to get us started but we should look too to fine tuning this. Does local / organic raise a premium - if so I am sure we can get even more grown localy.
Finaly on organic - should we look to getting registered. If so who with.
dunc on Cop Hill
rocket and spuds
Hi, Marie-Claire here,
I've got use of a sizeable allotment with a cracking view in Bolster Moor.
I'm planning to grow spuds, beets, rocket and soft fruit, and maybe bobby beans. If all goes to plan I will have enough of the above to sell my surplus, but I've never grown on such a scale beofre so let's see how it goes...
mcxx
Hi MC Sounds great - are you
Hi MC
Sounds great - are you scouring the seed catalogues like Ange ? I must get on with that - before as usual I miss the boat !
Looks like we could do with an online planner for those of us who might have a surplus - start to chart out when things may be availabe.
Now I wonder how you do that .....
h
seeds
I've got quite a few seeds actually, I'm going to use what I've got before buying more. I'm happy to swap things I've got lots of, I'm not sure what that would be though. I'll have a look at home and post something on when I know what's going spare... watch this space....
Hmmm, as for the chart idea, I think it's a really good one. Perhaps we should do a real chart rather than a web one. We could keep it at the GVG for refernce?
mcx