 We are a host for volunteers who would like to help on our farm. We find that volunteers are essential for us to be able to produce quality organic food for our local community in a way that enhances our natural environment .
Please take a look at our WWOOF (worldwide workers on organic farms) profile wwoof.org.uk/en/host/35863 We enjoy the exchange that occurs when we receive Wwoof volunteers and have found that the volunteers also get a huge amount from the experience. We look forward to hearing from you.
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 Click on the link for a short film about egg grading https://www.facebook.com/CwmcouOrganics/videos/
So, after much searching, we are going to try out these home compostable bags for our fresh organic greens. Until now I have been unable to find any bags that are plant based, home compostable, food safe and big enough. the only compromise being that they are translucent, but we hope you wont mind about that. Let us know what you think..... https://en.biotec.de/sustainability/sustainability    Click on this link to see our little promo film from may 2019, mostly featuring weeding! https://www.facebook.com/CwmcouOrganics See how much these rows of spinach have grown in just a week.  We have big plans for this season, but we cannot achieve it by ourselves, we need regular help from local volunteers and travelling visitors, if you think you could put a few hours in to help provide wonderful food for the local community, please get in touch, we can return the favour with a box of vegetables and eggs. Have a look at our Wwoof profile , and our Workaway profile many thanks  Today we have been inspected by the Soil Association. Every year we go through this rigorous inspection where they check our growing practices, our seed and feed sources, animal welfare, documentation, etc etc etc. So why do we do it? So that you can be sure that our produce is the best that it can possibly be for your health and for the health of the environment. We are also proud to be suporting the soil association who are a charity campaining on our behalf, putting pressure on governments and spreading awareness. https://www.soilassociation.org/beeorganic/   We started off in May four years ago with a few south facing grassy fields, on which we planted nearly 600 Apple trees over the winter months. We now have four flocks of organic hens and a rich biodiverse environment, where beans, clover and wild flowers are growing under blossoming fruit trees. The understory planting is designed to suppress the grass while attracting the bees and feeding the soil and then becoming food and cover for the hens. We don't want grass, as it hinders the growth of the trees. We want the bees to help pollinate the Apple trees and we want our hens to be happy and healthy. We also want to encourage a biodiverse environment so that nature can find a balance that is sustainable and productive. The Hens are regularly moved around the Orchard, Their houses are dragged on skis with the tractor and a moveable electric fence marks out their fresh plot, leaving the previous plot scratched up and fertilised thanks to the hens, ready to cultivate and plant a new understory cover crop. Chickens originate from the jungles of Asia, and are happiest among trees and plants. while the trees protect them from an arial hawk attack they also provide the accessional windfall apple. They have a varied diet including insects, grubs, fresh greenery, organic chicken food, peas, beans and seeds from the understory crops helping the hens to produce wonderful eggs. The apple trees benefit from both the presence of the hens and the understory crops. The hens will eat pests that could attack the trees, they knock back any plants competing for nutrients around the tree roots and they fertilise the soil with their poo. Plants such as broad beens, peas and vetches grown under the trees have nitrogen fixing nodules in their roots improving the soil that the apple trees grow in, also helping to produce wonderful apples. For those that live near Carmarthen....
There will be a new food market starting up in Johnstown, open for business online from on 31st March. Register now, log in, choose your produce, pay and then collect on Thursday 6th April. We'll be there! https://thefoodassembly.com/en This article by the soil association is about our hens at Cwmcou Organics. Setting an example of the highest animal welfare standards.
www.soilassociation.org/farmers-growers/farming-and-growing-news/2016/november/02/undercover-chickens/   ORGANIC, ORGANIG, ORGANIC! We can say the word ORGANIC! We have gone through the conversion period, and are now converted... from now on the soil is considered safe to grow food and anything that grows in it can be called ORGANIC! Our eggs are officially ORGANIC EGGS, but we still have to update the packaging. However, the apple trees take another year. We always have and always will grow organically, but now we have a special badge to show off. |
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May 2020
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