Welcome to the website of Diss Community Farm. We are a community group, based near Diss, who have come together to produce food collaboratively in an ethical and sustainable way.
New members who share our vision and are willing to work with us regularly are welcome.
See the About us and How to join page for more information.
Cooler than last week but dry, with plenty of work done, including clearing an area to be used for storage and planting garlic cloves, looking ahead (hopefully) to next year’s harvests.
We had a good turnout of members; fantastic weather in which to work.
We hope we’re succeeding in ridding the brassicas of whitefly, drenching them with soap and adding sticky card traps.
It looks like we’ll have a super crop of leeks and earlier than last year.
A week later and this is the take-home basket; still a good variety.
Why two duplicate photos of potatoes last week? Well, when unearthing them, we were very pleased with the size of many of the spuds, 12 cm lengthways…
The big dig from one bed of potatoes, a success.
However, although “protected” with net, whitefly has covered the brassicas. Hence first water jetting and then spraying with potassium soap and neem oil…
This may be the last massive take home of produce, although, for example tomatoes and cucumbers continue to ripen. We found one cauliflower covered with black spots; fortunately others are ok.
Straw on top of cardboard is being laid between beds to try and help with weed suppression.
Newly raised at home cabbages have been planted, surrounded with eggshell protection from slugs and a net cover from birds, etc.
Veg and fruit ripening, flowers for the bees and seeds for the birds.
No artificial pesticides, good exercise, much harvesting and many hours of weeding…
Three weeks later, very busy, so here’s just a photo of our take home box.
AGM next week. Hopefully photos in a couple of weeks.
We have had rain at last.
We’re continue to harvest a lot, including beetroot and dry barlotta beans, while others weed, preparing the ground for the next crop.
We’re so busy, I’m adding only a couple of photos.
A uchiki kuri squash ripening well and again a good harvest.
The onions, red and white, were harvested today and divided into shares. A good harvest. (We have no apple trees at the farm, they’re windfalls from home).
Bright sunflowers, sweetcorn growing, potatoes growing, cucumbers in abundance, courgettes under a mass of foliage, a no-dig bed receiving our homemade compost, manure being broken up, a super harvest and time for a sit down.
