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Excellent fennel, red cabbage, chard and beetroot

The rain continues and, though this isn’t helping us get the last of the wheat harvest in, it is doing the vegetables no end of good. This week in addition to the excellent fennel, beetroot, swede and red cabbage we began cropping last week we’re starting to harvest ruby chard and golden beet. The golden [...]

Recent News

We’re back! Summer rain has brought forward late summer / autumn crops
We’ve been very busy with the arable harvest for the last month or so and have only been checking and weeding the vegetables intermittently. However it has become increasingly clear that many are well advanced, no doubt as a result of all the rain we’ve had, so we’re resuming vegetable harvesting and marketing a few [...]
Closed for the summer; back in mid September
We're taking a break from our direct produce sales over the summer and will be back with a wide range of great vegetables in the autumn. We'll let you know when our produce is coming back on stream.
Rain, new potatoes and fresh onions
As we celebrate some very welcome rain (20mm yesterday!), we continue to lift our new potatoes (our organic potatoes are Nicola; our LEAF marque potatoes Maris Peer and Vales Emerald) and harvest our fresh green and red onions (available loose or in bunches). All our brassicas are now finished until the autumn season.
Now in season: asparagus (last week!), broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage
With the hungry gap now behind us we’re cropping broccoli, cauliflower, pointed and Savoy cabbage. As summer approaches, so does the end of the asparagus season. We stop cutting on 21st June. We’re keeping a close eye on our new potatoes and hope to start lifting them in the next couple of weeks.
Asparagus and cauliflowers
Despite the sudden colder turn to the weather our asparagus and cauliflowers are cropping well and are superb quality.

Welcome to Home Farm Nacton

Home Farm Nacton comprises 2,500 acres of high quality agricultural land on the historic Orwell Park Estate, on the north bank of Suffolk’s Orwell estuary. The farm is a patchwork of woodland, heath, grass and arable land – used for organic vegetable production as well as cereal crops. We’re currently working on 350 acres under Soil Association organic certification, with a further 40 acres in conversion. The farm is also LEAF marque certified.

Like much of the Suffolk coastal strip, the land is extremely sandy. This light soil is easily worked and perfectly suited for production of many vegetables, including asparagus, fennel and root crops such as beetroot, swede and carrot. The farm also grows leeks, onions, celery and a wide range of brassicas, from long-standing British favourites like Brussels sprouts, traditional cauliflower and Savoy cabbage to the less well-known green and black kale, Romanesco cauliflower and cavolo nero. Another brassica crop, now well-established as a popular winter vegetable, is purple sprouting broccoli.

Headed by Andy Williams, the farm manager, and Gavin Prentice, farm foreman, the farm employs 24 full-time staff as well as additional seasonal workers. With its office in the centre of the village of Nacton, and a popular trailer selling produce locally, the farm is at the heart of the local community.