Conservation Grazing

From the outset the Real Food mission has been to ‘Nourish People and Place’. So it was a natural step for us to use livestock to improve places for wildlife. […]

Woolly Mowers

We’d like to introduce you to our colourful woolly mowers! Our little flock of native breed crosses graze our orchard and also provide their services to neighbouring landowners. We’ve selected […]

Traineeship Opportunity

About us The Real Food Garden is an established regenerative food producer with a market garden, veg box scheme, farm shop and conservation grazing. We grow a full range of […]

Cornwall Sustainability Award Runners Up!

We were so pleased to be recognised with an award at the Cornwall Sustainability Awards 2022! We entered in the Growing Greener category to showcase what agriculture and horticulture can […]

Plans and Planning

In October 2016 we were creating our first veggie beds and embarking on putting up our first polytunnel. Since then we’ve supplied hundreds of veg boxes to local people, attended community events, […]

Not Beetlejuice…Beetroot Juice!

Vegetable smoothies and juices are definitely on trend. Whilst offering a great way of getting your five-a-day we definitely advocate enjoying a glass of beetroot juice as part of a […]

Let them eat (veg) cake!

It’ll come as no surprise that we are big veg eaters here at the Real Food Garden, but sometimes we all need a sweet pick me up. After experimenting with […]

Rewilding Agriculture

Recently we visited a good friend at Woodland Valley Farm near Laddock. Chris Jones farms in an inspiring way. He expects a lot from himself as farmer and guardian of […]

10 Reasons we Love Being Organic

Yesterday I saw a baby grass snake on our compost pile. I beamed with joy and awe at this amazing creature and the first thing I thought was “yet another […]