The first few tomatoes of the year are ripe and in the shop, so far just red cherry varieties: terenzo, red alert, and gartenperle

Our purple sprouting broccoli is looking good, hopefully we'll have some in the shop on Thursday

The pond is alive! Lots of lovely frogs, spawning, bubbling, and burbling🐸

There's a few places left on this tour that I'm leading at @surreydocksfarm.bsky.social on Saturday March 22. You'll not only hear about the site's curious and fascinating history, you'll be able to see the proof of it!
Book here: www.surreydocksfarm.org.uk/product/secrets-of-the-sites-history

A small forest of tomato plants, almond blossom, and frogspawn, just some of the joys of spring

Graphical abstract of science paper 'bumble bee damage plant leaves and accelerate flower production' with a list of the authors on a grey background. On the left is a watercolour illustration of a bumble bee damaging a plant leaf with the description 'when hungry for pollen, bumble bees use their mouthparts and mandibles to damage plant leaves'. this illustration is connected by a orange arrow to a watercolour drawing of a flowering yellow black mustard plant with a bumble bee. This has the description: 2) the damage inflicted by bees causes plants to flower earlier than paired control plants.

🌟 Throwback to my 2020 research published in @science.org 🌼🐝We showed how bumble bees actively shape their environment—making plants flower earlier to meet their needs. Nature’s engineers in action!🧪🌏
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London please help. I’m praying for a miracle, I’ve just got into the office and noticed my mums locket (in all these photos) that I wear every day has fallen off my neck on my walk in. My mum died when I was seven and her jewellery is most of what I have of her. I’m devastated

We have harvested some of our jerusalem artichokes, which are now in the farm shop, one of the plants had a rather lovely flower so we put it in a vase by the till

Wreath club in action, wreath kits will be in the farm shop this weekend