As the days get shorter and the temperatures lower, salad leaf growth gets slower and slower. However all our winter leaves are happily growing away slowly and surely in the polytunnel. We are still producing tasty interesting leaves, that provide a great seasonal break from all the root veg!

Over the winter, we've got some time to get on with all the jobs that seem to get put off in the summer. After 9 months on the land, I finally got round to fixing the gate into our field. Check out the video below to see my old man giving a demo of the amazing opening system to keep the gate rabbit proof. Well, maybe not amazing, but pleasing nonetheless! We've also been busy spreading woodchip to stop the field turning into a quagmire. Over the coming weeks, we'll be planting up some willow whips to create a wind break and help the salad fight the rest of the winter weather.

It's been a great autumn here at the Little Salad Company, doing our first farmers markets, which have been a huge success, and supplying to True Food Co-op and a veg box scheme. We'll be taking a well earned break over Christmas to give our plants time to recouperate before harvesting starts again at the end of January.

Matthew

The Little Salad company featured in a great article in Farmers Weekly this week. The article celebrates alternative methods for people to get into agriculture, and The Earth Trust's FarmStep scheme is a great example of this. YOu can see the full article here. It's great for us to get recognition for what we're trying to do, bringing tasty seasonal leaves to customers!