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Egg grading film

18/5/2020

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Click on the link for a short film about egg grading https://www.facebook.com/CwmcouOrganics/videos/
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compostable bags

5/2/2020

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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
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Short film - natures song

4/6/2019

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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.
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VOLUNTEER WITH US

16/3/2018

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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
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many thanks
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soil association

2/8/2017

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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/
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Orchard, Hens, understory

14/5/2017

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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.
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Carmarthen food assembly

28/3/2017

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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
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Article about our hens

4/11/2016

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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/


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Our soil is now certified organic!

25/4/2016

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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.
https://www.soilassociation.org/
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UNWASHED SALAD

21/6/2015

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You will be please to know OUR SALAD IS UNWASHED. To sell salad as 'washed' we would be obliged to use a disinfectant chlorinated solution. All big retail salad is washed in this stuff, to comply with food safety standards chlorine must be used. We will not be washing our salad. We take great care when picking and packing our salad. We are inspected and approved of by The soil association, food hygiene, health and safety, and trading standard inspectors. Our aim is to create a balance where we provide habitats to naturally encourage predators to eat the pests when the plants are in the ground, and in the packing room we sort through every leaf, but if the odd slug gets through, you can be pleased to know, our salad is unwashed so YOU WILL NOT BE EATING CHEMICALS!
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