Our good friend, Franics Sampson, of Cargease Organics near Cockwells and Crowlas, is semi-retiring, and will no longer be growing organic veg to sell. Francis is one of the UK's leading organic field-scale growers, and many box schemes in Cornwall and across the country have relied on his veg to fill their boxes each winter. We have been buying Francis' veg since we opened our first farm shop in 2013, and over the years his cauliflowers in particular have been staples in our veg boxes in the winter (along with his purple sprouting broccoli, swedes, cabbages, leeks, and Brussels sprouts, and there have also been potatoes, carrots, beetroot, and celeriac at times). We have his caulis and PSB in the boxes this week, and that will be the end...
We wish Francis a very happy semi-retirement - after 50 years of picking caulis his back deserves a rest! A huge thanks to him and his team for all the wonderful local organic veg over the past eleven years!
No comments:
Post a Comment