
Ellie's New Season Potatoes

Ellie Marsh · Field Lane, Kent (illustrative)
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Lifted the new-season potatoes on Tuesday — earlier than last year.

Fresh whole milk bottled for Friday dispatch.

The hens are laying particularly well this week.

The first heritage apples are ready in the old orchard.
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Ellie Marsh · Field Lane, Kent (illustrative)


Tommy & Greta Hargreaves · Bramblewood, Devon (illustrative)


Priya Shah · North Gate, Suffolk (illustrative)


Harriet Vane · Foxmoor, Cumbria (illustrative)


Ben & Rosa Wren · Hollow Oak, Herefordshire (illustrative)


Marcus Reed · Tamar Fields, Cornwall (illustrative)


Duncan & Ivy Moore · Beech Hollow, Gloucestershire (illustrative)


Owen & Sage Clarke · Millbrook, Shropshire (illustrative)

A single box built from whichever farms are at their best that week — veg from one, dairy from another, bread flour from the mill. Every item still carries its farm.
This week’s box comes from 6 independent farms
Not a blog. Just the farms telling us what is ready, what is late and what is nearly over.
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Ellie Marsh
Field Lane · Sandwich, Kent
“Lifted the new-season potatoes on Tuesday — earlier than last year.”
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Priya Shah
North Gate · Framlingham, Suffolk
“The hens are laying particularly well this week.”
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Ben & Rosa Wren
Hollow Oak · Ledbury, Herefordshire
“The first heritage apples are ready in the old orchard.”
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Field Lane · Kent
Third generation digging the same clay. Ellie grows sixteen potato varieties the old way, no irrigation, lifted to order the morning a box goes out.
Potatoes · Carrots
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Bramblewood · Devon
Twelve Jersey cows paddocked on heathland, milked twice a day and bottled in the farmhouse the same afternoon.
Whole milk · Butter
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North Gate · Suffolk
Small flocks in orchard paddocks that move every ten days. Eggs are collected by hand and dated on the shell.
Free-range eggs
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