Author: Aleks Osinska

We are planning to camp at Hawkwood overnight sometime in July 2023. Here we can enjoy socialising around a fire in a beautiful setting and anything else that members want to contribute… Communal breakfast? Soup? Bread? Games? Strories? Music? Singing? Get in touch with clare.hudman@stroudcommunityagriculture.org if you want to contribute to making this happen. How […]

It has been a challenging winter at SCA, with staff changes and extreme weather we are all looking forward to Spring and some more sunshine! The big freeze before Christmas which saw -10 degree temperatures wiped out our purple sprouting broccoli crop, which is a massive player in the share during the hungry gap. Luckily […]

SCA is excited to announce our participation in the Real Farming Trust’s partnership project twinning urban and rural communities. It is funded for three years by the National Lottery Community Fund as a Bringing People Together project. The purpose of the project is to bridge social divides and build understanding between people involved in growing […]

Veggie fields One of the things I love the most about being a veg farmer is witnessing close up, the changes of the seasons. The subtle arrival of Autumn with its fresh mornings and bright sunshine, is the best when stood in the middle of a patch of brassicas. It is a joy to see […]

Veggie fields September is here and summer already seems on its way out. This season on the farm has been as busy as ever. During nearly 2 months of drought a lot of our time and energy went into irrigating crops and protecting them from this incredible heat. Luckily it started raining again after what […]

Veggie fields The farm is busy, busy, busy! It feels a lot like fire fighting right now! As the year progresses there is always this feeling of quickening, the daylight hours get longer, the workload increases… and weeds stubbornly continue to regrow! After a day out in the fields we often leave work searching for […]

We would like to invite you to a weekend of music, food and fun at the farm. WHEN and WHERE? The festival will take place at our Hawkwood farm, near the roundhouse and in the Barn, from 5pm Friday 10th of June until 12pm 12th of June. There is a possibility to camp on our fields or […]

Veggie fields Spring is springing! Our propagation tunnel (now situated at Oakbrook farm) is bursting at the seams with brassicas, lettuce, tomatoes, peppers, onions, beans and beetroot. Today we even placed some of our first brassica crops outside to harden-off before we plant them in the fields. If you find yourself walking from town past […]

Veggie fields It has been a very busy autumn, turning the rest of the polytunnels over from summer to winter crops and harvesting and storing the squash safely to keep the share looking bright and full in the new year. The polytunnels are now full of winter salad, bright new beautiful chard and perpetual spinach […]

Veggie fields We have been really delighted with how well all the crops have been doing. We have certainly received some perfectly timed rain at different points over the season which has helped a great deal. Our leeks and winter brassicas are doing really well. This is thanks, in no small part, to all our […]