This month, we are mostly obsessing about our beautiful new Sussex hens, courtesy of James Baty at North Acomb Farm,...
Vicky Moffitt, of Vallum Farm on Hadrian’s Wall, shares the trials and tribulations of the Kitchen Garden which supplies produce...
The cold snap hits the Kitchen Garden Can you believe the weather? Snow in May! Thank goodness Mark hadn’t planted out his seedlings when it fell. We’ve been harvesting rocket, rainbow chard, sorrel, viola flowers, broad bean tops and the last of the celeriac for the first wedding of the...
I feel like Vallum has gone through a sort of rejuvenation during lockdown. It’s as if the world stopped and...
Oh my goodness…this weather! I’m sure the cherries aren’t usually so early, yet we have them dropping from the tree....
Vallum Kitchen Garden is awash with colour It’s been a long time since I shared news from Vallum Kitchen Garden with you, but that doesn’t mean I’ve had my feet up over the last few months. We’ve had lots of demand for our salad mixes, microshoots and edible flowers; I’m confident...
Vicky celebrates the late season harvest This month has been everything we had dreamed of and more; Vallum Kitchen Garden...
We have seen an abundance of berries and nuts in the hedgerows around us this autumn. The blackberries have been...
Every year I feel myself being pulled out of the doldrums of The Long Brown Northumbrian Winter by the first signs of spring. Birds wake me up, green buds abound and the lawn goes from static to crazy; oh, for the smell of the first-cut grass. Spring has got to...
With Vallum’s Vicky Moffitt The purple-sprouting broccoli at Vallum is insane. It’s like being in a virtual reality world down here...
The kitchen garden is in its element at the moment with beans, kale, chard, beetroot, carrots, lettuce, courgettes, cucumber, tomatoes,...
Vicky Moffitt, of Vallum Farm on Hadrian’s Wall, shares the trials and tribulations of the Kitchen Garden which supplies produce to the farm’s weddings and events, and Restaurant Pine. Vallum, Military Road, Newcastle, NE18 0LL, tel 01434 672 652, www.vallumfarm.co.uk Chard, chard, chard. Butterflies, butterflies, moths. Grrrr… We like (or we...
