The least soil is disturbed from ploughing, rotavating, harrowing, the more carbon they can hold onto. The more organic matter (om) soil contains, the more life is supported and carbon is sequestered. When consumers source food produced by organic and regenerative farming methods, they are helping keep and take down carbon from the atmosphere into the soil. What we put on our plates 3 times each day has a direct impact on how much carbon is stored or lost from soil. There are many ways we can all do our bit to combat climate change, our food choices are one of them. Small scale, regenerative farms and market gardens which supply our Harvest Farm Shop prove to be quite resilient due to their scale and diversity in what ever the elements sends their way, in extremes of wet weather, fewer nutrients are leached from organic rich soils and they are able to infiltrate more rain water due to greater numbers of earthworms which make their burrows deep into the soil profile which helps mitigate flooding.Ĭlimate change news has been hitting the headlines now for some while and is one of our greatest concerns for our future. This poses risks to soil health and the carbon locked up in it. This winter has been a real challenge for farmers and their pickers with the constant wet and windy storms coming off what was a wet soggy autumn for getting their crops off the field and into the packhouses. Harvesting of winter vegetable crops continues despite the inclement wet weather. We are exploring if our film night might be live screened so you can watch it at home and join in with an online discussion afterwards and our family workshops activities – gardening, creative making, cooking and storytelling – will be published on line so you can join in! Sadly most of these will have to be postponed. We had a lot of great events planned for the forthcoming weeks. Most importantly please look after yourself and those around you! Eat healthily and sleep well! Harvest Workers Coop Events More information about ordering and deliveries can be found on our page here Find them on facebook here and read about these wonderful people here The Okehampton COVID-19 Support Group may be able to help with deliveries contact them on 07707 565612. We would love to hear from anyone who is able to help do some home deliveries. We can do a limited delivery/collection options to ensure no-one goes without. If you are unable to come to the shop due to staying safe at home please let us know.We hate asking customers to stay away but this to ensure we can offer our service for as long as possible Please do not visit us if you or family members are sick.The shopkeepers will be doing all the weighing of loose goods in order to reduce the numbers of people handling the scoops.We are trying to reduce handling as much as possible but washing everything when you get home would be a good idea. Please keep the front door open to avoid other customers touching the door handle.
We are sanitising all surfaces, including dispenser handles, regularly.
We have made a few changes in the farm shop to ensure we can stay open for as long as possible:
Everyone is working so hard to make things happen. We work with over 30 different growers and suppliers and as you can imagine they all face their own challenges. We are sorry if sometimes the things you want are not in stock. We are happy for people to collect boxes for you if you are in those categories. Therefore we ask that you come and do your own shopping if feasible so that the boxes we pack are reserved for vulnerable people who are self isolating or others self isolating who have the virus. Our shop is only small so although we can make up boxes for you to collect or to be delivered we can only manage to do about 10 boxes a day. read on and also click here for more information If you can’t then we are doing orders and deliveries. Our shop is open as normal from 9-5 for customers who are able to come and get their own shopping.
We would like to thank all you our customers and friends for your continued support during this challenging time it really means a lot! We have already enjoyed so many conversations with you in the shop and really value your calmness and thoughtfulness.
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