The Crops Are A Growing

    It's been a while since our last blog post but life is busy here at RMF. Our crops are growing fast, now that the sunshine has arrived. We are transplanting leeks and potatoes to the fields around the poly tunnels and also the big fields. Last week we finally got the spuds in after weeks of rain, when the soil was too wet for the planting to commence.

    The job was completed by Richard, Sirio and Giammarco, together with one of our trusty Ferguson tractors. The Italians are volunteer WWOOFers with amazing potato planting skills, among many others. The job was all done in just 3 hours but the

workers did take a short break when we were inundated by a 10 minute hail storm!

    Although they toughed it out for a while, the soil started getting sticky so the work was abandoned.

    It finally dried out and we finished. Spuds done, time for a glass of cider!