About Us

In 2001 we were already farming (although Tony was also working full time) when a confluence of events including our son Dean excemagoing from bad to worse (after his MMR) and Tony being admitted to hospital with viral meningitis. Both incidents and their effects caused us to re-evaluate our life priorities and already both of us having experience with growing food and nutrition we felt that by growing food naturally for us and our children, we would be giving our children the best chance for life wellness. Whilst today we are officially ‘organic’ we prefer to use the term holistic farming whilst getting to terms with becoming ‘biodynamic’ farmers.

I then spent the majority of the next four years training and researching health and wellbeing, which furthered our resolve that our food should be as fresh and natural as possible, even though farming was (and still is) sending our stress levels way beyond tolerance!

With the amount of information gained not just about food but the geopolitics and environmental issues, we knew producing and then sharing (retailing) high quality food locally was to be a priority. Without huge financial input we always knew it was going to be a challenge.

In September 2008 we had come to a point however with declining revenue from the farmers market, that we were virtually at a point of giving up – believe me without money and even less quality of life eventually common sense does start to prevail – when my sister asked me what had happened to the farm shop at Theale. It feltlike a death knell, as every farmer in the area knew how successful that was. So I did some investigating, and with the aid of one small miracle, we ended up with our own shop.

Over the years I have had many customers request a web and delivery service of local produce. Today we offer this service with the opportunity that so many online retailers cannot – see and taste for yourself from our shop in Theale (where the donkeys are) or look out for our farm open days in Wallingford.

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