Growing Organic Food in Healthy Soil
The Fold Community Farm is an organic farm in Worcestershire, certified by the Soil Association. We grow seasonal vegetables, herbs and some fruit on our land.
For us ‘fresh’ means ‘picked that morning’ – we pride ourselves in providing truly fresh vegetables to all our outlets, ensuring the highest quality and most nutritious produce.
You can purchase our vegetables at The Veg Shed, our honesty shop on-site in Bransford, a selection is available at Handley Organics in Ledbury. The Fold Café also serves a vegetarian menu which features the delicious seasonal food grown right here on our Community Farm.
The Veg Shed
The Veg Shed is our on-site honesty shop selling organic vegetables picked fresh from the The Fold Community Farm.
Simply choose your veg from the display and serve yourself via the till with card payment or cash.
Why Buy Direct from us?
- Better for the Planet, zero food miles involved!
- Food is freshly picked sometimes hours before
- Better for your health, zero pesticides and chemicals used
- Supports a local food system rather than relying on unstable imports in uncertain global times
- Provides local jobs and volunteering opportunities to get more people learning to grow their own!
If you’d like to get involved come and volunteer on flexible hours and days of the week, click below to apply
With glasshouses, polytunnels, raised beds and field space, we are able to keep up a good supply of organic veg year round. We specialise in the crops that small-scale does best like mixed salad, leafy greens, early potatoes, heritage tomatoes and fresh herbs.
We treasure and respect the soil, using minimal tillage methods and adding our hand-made compost to beds every year. We value biodiversity; creating habitats for wild creatures where we can, providing a safe place for honeybees to thrive, and growing companion plants which benefit pollinators.
Rather than spraying insecticides we use mesh covers to protect crops from caterpillars; we weed by hand rather than use herbicides and try to use clever crop rotations and variety choices to prevent diseases rather than using chemical remedies to treat them. Our polytunnels enable us to provide fresh food all year round, but we don’t heat our covered areas.
