Community co-operative in the Tyne Valley bringing people together to explore an alternative way of producing our food. Cropshare option, events & SUMA ordering
Ovingham, Northumberland
Joined October 2013
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Full house last night at our screening of @sixinchessoil . Thanks to everyone who helped make it happen, lots of conversation and food for thought!
Come and join us for our film night on Fri 28th June. Very excited to be screening @sixinchessoil
Beautiful sunrise over our Ovington fields this morning. Featuring ‘Willow-mena” our willow lady! #Northumberlandskies #localfood
A successful workshop last week demonstrating ergonomic & innovative market gardening tools. Thanks to all involved. #TheOnTheDayShow
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Free workshop - Market Gardening Tools - Saturday 17th June at our fields in Ovington. golocalfood.org.uk/events/ti…
Autumn already! What are your favourite signs of the new season? Is it the berries in the hedgerows or the morning mists? Read our autumnal musings here: golocalfood.org.uk/feeling-a…
ALT Brambles ripening on the bush
ALT Elderberries ripening on the tree
We have a new variety of chillies this year called ‘A Basket Of Fire’. Beautiful to look at and a little hotter than our previous year’s Apache chilli. golocalfood.org.uk/from-the-…
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ALT Yellow, orange and red chillis growing along with white flowers on the same plant.
Our tomato harvest this year has been amazing. We have 300 tunnel grown tomato plants and a further 80 outdoor tomatoes. Our heaviest weekly harvest to date has been 110kg! #localfood
ALT Tomatoes growing and ripening inside a polytunnel
We are looking towards Autumn with chard, spinach, beetroot, lettuce, Pak choi mustards, mizuna and mibuna seedlings growing in our polytunnels. #localfood
ALT Mibuna seedlings growing in seed trays
We love having the bees buzzing round our fields - we grow our veg chemical free to make sure they are welcome. golocalfood.org.uk/becoming-…
#beethechange
Did you know there are 24 species of bumblebee in the UK and over 200 species of solitary bee?
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It's not only veg that we dig up from our fields, see what one of our members has been discovering beneath our GO Local fields. golocalfood.org.uk/%ef%bf%bc…
It's our 10th Anniversary this year! Read about our decade of growing here golocalfood.org.uk/a-decade-…
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ALT GO Local Food chocolate birthday cake, decorated with a vegetable garden design.
So, our amazing field team worked out that last year we produced 880kgs of lettuce - that’s 8800 100g packets of salad wrapped in plastic that our members haven’t had to buy! #localfood
We're having an Open Day on our fields this Saturday, 25th June! Nature printing workshops, music and field tours. Would be lovely to see you. Register here to let us know you are coming: eventbrite.co.uk/e/go-local-…
Our Christmas Bundle offer is back, bringing together delicious goodies from our local producers. There is still a week to place your order. Orders to be collected from our field in Ovington on Dec 23rd. Read all about it & download an order form here: golocalfood.org.uk/2021/11/2…
