Our Farm in Provence
ORGANIC +++
It’s been an interesting journey for us.
After being vegetarian for a while, due to the standard of meat dropping, we embarked on our organic journey. After about 5 years of being vegetarian, I became pregnant with Freddie (who is nearly 18), so the decision was made to eat meat again. But it had to be well sourced and organic. Fortunately, we had an amazing organic butchers round the corner from us in Kentish Town in London, so this was achievable. This was the start of our interest in where food comes from.
There is a huge disconnect with our food these days and people want and expect cheap food. The supermarket competition only adds to this and since we “became organic” nearly 20 years ago, we feel the standard of organic has plummeted.
There are many loop holes afforded to the farmer to create “organic” food, but with the farmers being under so much stress to create cheap food, we are left with tasteless cheap organic food in the supermarkets.
Since growing our own food, we have remembered what food is actually supposed to taste like. Picking a warm tomato from the vine is not like anything you can buy in the supermarkets. The texture of a home grown aubergine is incredible and our salad leaves taste like they are supposed to - AND they last so much longer than something bought in a shop.
We are organic / bio, but we are not going to apply for certification. For a start, it will cost us money we simply don’t have at the moment, in addition, we feel it has lost it’s meaning and value and more than that, we feel that is undervaluing what we produce on our farm.
The only way I can put it to you is that we are ORGANIC +++
What can you expect from us?
We are passionate about our farm. We are passionate about the living soil. We are passionate about not using any form of chemicals on our produce. We are fighting the fight to help our planet - small scale organic regenerative farming is a major part of helping our planet.
We knew we cared about the planet, we knew we cared about the climate crisis, we knew we cared about where our food comes from, but the more we do and the more we learn, the more passionate we become.
So you can expect from us fantastic produce, made with love and care.
