Horticulture

We've been doing some number crunching for our veg box scheme. We've found some of the stats and guides on OOOOBY very useful. "In November there were 67 hubs actively trading on Ooooby with combined sales of £740k. In round figures, that’s an average of £11k per hub per month, or £132k per year.

We have been having an ongoing healthy debate in our veg box scheme about whether to deliver or not. There is no doubt we will get a lot more customers if we deliver, if we don't we will be missing out. On the other hand deliveries are expensive in time and money. In such a rural area we could sp

We are going for it! AJ's Farm Shop, Rock Farm and Creeve Cottage are amongst the growers coming together this summer to offer a veg box scheme. We have worked out a planting plan that should provide enough produce for 100 boxes - that's a lot easier with a group of growers. We'll bring it all to

Hey folks, can anyone recommend a good supplier of vegetable seeds that are based in or at least deliver to Northern Ireland? I am a market gardener on quarter of an acre so I am not planting huge quantities. However I would use a fair amount of lettuce, carrot, rocket, beetroot & mizuna. I would a

Dave from Picked Organic (one of our featured farmers) has teamed up with Four Leaf Farm to launch a collaborative CSA veg box scheme. 🙌 See more in this video

Thanks to amazing help from @Lezley Mawhinney our Veg Box Scheme is now going live. Please like and share and support as best you can. If you are in the Mid Ulster Area, get your friends and family signed up. https://www.instagram.com/thevegcollectiveni https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=615

In planning for our new weekly veg box scheme in Mid Ulster we had a look around at different options for handling orders. We did a detailed comparison of what they would cost us in the long run, looking at wordpress, wix, shopify and OOOOBY (Out of our own back yards). We got a free demo from the

Following a Grow In event a while back a small group of growers kept the conversation going about trying to do something collectively around the Cookstown / Magherafelt area. At the meeting we had growers who were looking at routes to market and a farm shop, all within a few miles of each - it see

Absolute pleasure to catch up with Gerard Convery of Rock Farm Produce the other day. We had a quick chat about some of his plans for the farm just outside Maghera.

The CSA mentoring programme offers support to start up or existing CSA farms across the UK "Our CSA mentoring programme is now open to applications from across the UK. It costs a subsidised fee of £25 for CSA Network UK members and £50 for non-members (the actual cost is around £350 so this is a gre