Having just returned from a very relaxing, sea-tastic and majorly foodie holiday in Cornwall it has been quite tricky to...
The whole garden has been cloaked in sparkle dust today. We had to stop picking the kale mid-December as it...
What a summer we had! The heatwave meant the crops were in remarkably early, allowing the farmers a more sociable summer than usual. Meanwhile, we enjoyed a really good boost to the season, so we were spoilt for courgettes, lettuce, tomatoes, cucumber, radish, kale, squash and more – and the...
It’s cold outside, but the hens are laying Hello again from Vallum in what’s been a very frosty month. Our gardener Caroline...
We’ve dragged our feet this spring preparing for planting, but thanks to our new tea room chef, Richard Jack, and...
One of my colleagues walked past the polytunnel the other day when I was planting out some winter herbs and vegetables. “I don’t really do greens,” she said slightly guiltily, obviously trying to avoid a gardener’s lecture on the value of eating vegetables. “What about purple?” I said. She stopped....
Vicky Moffitt, of Vallum Farm on Hadrian’s Wall, shares the trials and tribulations of the Kitchen Garden which supplies produce...
Vicky Moffitt, of Vallum Farm on Hadrian’s Wall, shares the trials and tribulations of the Kitchen Garden which supplies produce...
Enjoying the fruits of our labour In the few spare minutes we get at this time of year it’s great to sit back and look at Vallum Kitchen Garden in its full glory. We’re right in the middle of the season as I write, so we’ve got beds full of...
Vicky celebrates the late season harvest This month has been everything we had dreamed of and more; Vallum Kitchen Garden...
Every year I feel myself being pulled out of the doldrums of The Long Brown Northumbrian Winter by the first...
Whisper it – spring is here (maybe). The birds are chirping away like there’s no tomorrow and our customers have a happy spring in their steps. But as my parents always say – ‘ne’er cast a clout till May be out’ – a clout being an old word for a...
