Ripple Farm Organics

Trimming leeks in the field.

Ripple Farm is a small horticultural farm of 14 acres situated in the Stour Valley, Kent at Crundale between Ashford and Canterbury. Our fields slope up to the bottom slopes of the North Downs, giving us light, chalky soils. These free draining soils, blessed by the warmer climate of the Southeast, produce vegetables of great taste and quality.

Ripple Farm has been certified Organic since 1989 and holds an Organic Symbol from the Soil Association. The farm itself is essentially a market garden producing a wide range of vegetables, salad, herbs and some soft fruit. With this produce, Ripple Farm Organics runs a local box scheme and supports the Wye Farmers' Market, supplies specialist organic shops in London on a weekly basis and supplies other box schemes in Kent and London.

The following principles are followed in the farm's day-to-day work:-

		Sustainable growing methods in harmony with nature
		Producing fresh, nutritious food
		Providing a direct link from consumers to Farmers
		Reducing Food Miles
		Recycling and reducing packaging
		Providing sustainable, local employment

The farm is run as a partnership between Martin Mackey and Simon Bowden, who both have academic qualifications in Sustainable Agriculture and many years of practical experience.