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    We are a family run business and grow vegetables and salads at Church Farm in Flitton, Bedfordshire.

     Church Farm has a history of vegetable production going back over 70 years.

     By the mid 1990’s we had become very disillusioned with conventional vegetable growing. Not only were we working harder and harder for ever smaller returns but we also found that we had to use more and more chemicals on the crops for what were sometimes purely cosmetic reasons, e.g. to improve the skin finish on potatoes or the appearance of the leaves on  leeks.

     In 1997 the decision was taken to convert the farm to organic production and the farm was registered with the Soil Association gaining full organic status in 2000 after a three year conversion period.

     At first we only supplied a large vegetable box scheme in London, and they took all of our produce and supported us during our first years as organic growers. We then began to supply other box schemes and in the autumn of 2005 The Farm Shop was opened which has proved to be a great success.

     The farm grows a variety of crops including an acre of asparagus which is a big seller when it appears in the shop in April, for its short season.

     We are committed to improving the environment on and around the farm and as well as restoring and planting many hedge rows and trees we are part of the Countryside Stewardship Scheme and have set aside a large acreage on Flitton Moor allowing it to revert to natural grassland. This part of the farm is open to the public via a circular pathway.