The Farming Year

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HARVEST 2015: COMBINING OSR, PLOUGHING AND ROLLING TO PREPARE THE LAND FOR SOWING NEXT YEAR’S WHEAT. — Our aim is to have the land working as efficiently as possible 365 days a year. This means, weather permitting of course, that as soon as one year’s crop is harvested next year’s crop is in the ground.

De-stoning — For potatoes, the farming year starts in April with preparing the land for planting. This involves de-stoning and preparing the seed bed.

Emerged potatoes, the drills are created using RTK guidance

Spraying crops — The crops are sprayed at various intervals during the growing season

Farm fresh potatoes for sale Alnwick — As soon as the combinable crops are in the shed we start harvesting.

potato harvesting — Harvesting is a slow process – we aim to harvest approximately 20 acres a day. The weather often hampers our efforts as we can only lift the potatoes when it’s dry. Once harvested the potatoes are taken to our fridges until needed. We can store potatoes from September through until May

Harvest Videos

Topping potatoes in Northumberland

Education Outreach

Anyone interested in outreach projects centred around knowing more about farming or food production please get in touch. Here is a short presentation we did for a local First School.

The Park family have been farming at Buston, near Alnwick in Northumberland since 1965. Each year, in addition to wheat and oil seed rape, a number of different varieties are grown including heritage potatoes. Around half the crop are grown as seed potatoes; the remainder are what’s known as ware and are sold to the public either direct from the farm or through wholesalers.

The Farming Year

The Farming Year - Gallery

Harvest Videos

Education Outreach

COntact Info

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