Hello! from Barcombe Nurseries …..

In a culture of misleading ‘green-washing’ we want to be completely transparent about where everything in your box comes from, and to explain how we grow the produce that we do grow ourselves and why we don’t grow what we don’t!

As awareness and subsequent concern increases surrounding agricultural practices and supply chains, we hope you find the below information interesting, as well as reassuring, and we welcome any questions you might have. There’s a lot to get stuck into so we’ve split it up into four sections;

Our soil

At Barcombe we are blessed, or cursed, depending on your outlook, with clay-heavy soil. It’s wonderful during a drought, but it means we don’t grow things like potatoes or parsnips, as they thrive in more free-draining earth. You might say greens are what we do best, and we painstakingly plan our sowing and planting so that we have a continuous supply. Leaves don’t travel well so we love being able to provide them consistently: quality and quantity is our aim! Our indoor plantings of chard and spinach last over the winter, and our early plantings of indoor kales are ready when our outdoor lot begin to bolt. This means there’s never an excuse not to eat your greens and it’s hardly a chore when they’re always so luscious looking, brimming with goodness and delivered to your door so soon after picking. The rest of our crops are best explored in terms of area.