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Ripple Farm Organics
ORGANIC & LOCAL
 Onions drying in the field, Aug 2010 | LATEST NEWS - SEPTEMBER 2010
Markets in September WYE Farmers Market, Sat 4 September and Sat 18 September, 9-12
WHITSTABLE Farmers Market 11 September and Sat 25 September, 9.30-2
LONDON- Stoke Newington Farmers Market Every Saturday - 10am-2.30
Fingers crossed for a sunny September, the squash need it!Seasonal delights for September include more delicious sweetcorn and summer squash in various shapes.
September's workload includes hand-picking the onions, whcih have been lifted and are lying in the fields drying (hopefully!) and starting the maincrop potato harvest. We ain to store enough potatoes to see us through to next May/june.
Ripple Farm Organics Home 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. As well as our Home Farm, we also rent a Victorian Walled Garden at Olantigh near Wye and fields below Wye Crown, including an old 'Spartan' orchard.
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 Wye and Whitstable Farmers' Markets in Kent and Stoke Newington farmers Market, London. We also supply specialist organic/wholefood shops in London, Growing Communities Box Scheme, London and a variety of shops, cafes and Pubs in Kent.
The following principles are followed in the farm's
day-to-day work:-
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Sustainable growing methods in
harmony with nature |
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Producing fresh, nutritious
food |
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Providing a direct link from
consumers to Farmers |
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Reducing Food Miles |
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Recycling and reducing
packaging |
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Providing sustainable, local
employment |
The farm is run by Martin Mackey, who has academic
qualifications in Sustainable Agriculture and many years
of practical experience in organic
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