Having just returned from a very relaxing, sea-tastic and majorly foodie holiday in Cornwall it has been quite tricky to...
While we’ve been making the most of the autumn sunshine and we’re still picking some fab winter produce – the...
…but there’s still work to do in the garden It’s windy, the forecast says the rain is going to get here by noon and the woolly hat is on; autumn is well and truly upon us. Having spent a lot of our time recently planning our winter growing, the time...
Vallum Kitchen Garden is awash with colour It’s been a long time since I shared news from Vallum Kitchen Garden with...
This month, we are mostly obsessing about our beautiful new Sussex hens, courtesy of James Baty at North Acomb Farm,...
It’s all rain in the Kitchen Garden It’s pouring down today – again! After the driest May on record we seem to have had more than our fair share of rain in June and the pesky slug is on the slither and after the strawberries! Mark (our grower) has been...
I feel like Vallum has gone through a sort of rejuvenation during lockdown. It’s as if the world stopped and...
The passage of autumn into winter always feels to me like a slowing-down period; a time for reflection. Everything is...
We’ve been chatting beetroot today. All things from baby beets boiled in the pan to bigger ones roasted in the oven. We were at The Black Swan at Oldstead for my birthday in January – a hard time of year for chefs produce-wise – and they did a whole course...
Vicky Moffitt of Vallum Farm on Hadrian’s Wall, shares the trials and tribulations of the Kitchen Garden which supplies produce...
I once grew so many flowers on my allotment that the bad-tempered judge of the annual prize spikily remarked that...
The whole garden has been cloaked in sparkle dust today. We had to stop picking the kale mid-December as it had stopped regenerating with the lower temperatures and it doesn’t look like picking up anytime soon. The sprouting broccoli started a little early (it should have waited until January) and...
