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Local Strawberry Update - 27.04.20

With the wonderful weather, our strawberry crops have flourished. Our pickers were up in the early hours harvesting the berries into our new compostable card punnets. On Friday we delivered our first lot of berries to local businesses and yesterday we delivere ...

Berry Exciting News

First, they were green, then they were white and now they are turning RED!! We have found our first couple of red strawberries and are roughly a week to 10-days away from getting them into the shops! Also excited about revealing our new cardboard punne ...

Bee Happy

Week 2 of ‘lockdown’ almost over. We hope you are keeping yourselves busy at home. Like we said last week if you find yourself with nothing to do why not give one of our recipes a go from our Read More

New Native Workers in Residence!

Tuesday, March 24, 2020

By Ellie Wait

This weekend saw the introduction of our Native Bumble Bee Bed & Breakfast. We have got roughly 240 bees spread over 3 hives ready to help with the pollination of our Strawberry plant flowers. With the sun out today, we have seen first sight of a few flowers a ...
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Grandad is out of retirement!

Thursday, March 19, 2020

By Ellie Wait

All go on the farm this week. We have been busy planting the glasshouse with Elsanta Strawberry plants. It was a race against time to get them in. Luckily Grandad was able to give us a helping hand. It's good to see he has still got it! BB x ...
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What is Boddington's Strawberry Conserve?

Friday, February 14, 2020

By Ellie Wait

The sun has been back shining over Mevagissey and the farm this week. Finally! Apart from the ongoing steady growth of our Elsanta plants (see picture) the crisp temperature has meant that farm life has quietened down. So, we decided to take the camera in ...
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New Year, New Growth

Thursday, February 6, 2020

By Ellie Wait

A mild December and January have given the Strawberry plants we planted just before Christmas, the opportunity to show off the first signs of growth. How exciting! If all goes to plan, and we don't experience any CrAzY weather, then we should be able to star ...
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What's Been Happening On The Farm This Week?

Tuesday, January 21, 2020

By Ellie Wait

We have started planting strawberries for 2020!! Here's Phil Boddington planting Elsanta. Elsanta has a delicious taste and is a perfect variety for our Strawberry conserve. The first crop should be ready in April. Let's hope they grow successfully! ...
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