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Cyril Blackmore
The farm will have been in the Blackmore family ownership for a century come 2015, and Cyril has farmed it organically since the mid 1980’s because he felt uncomfortable ( both physically and philosophically) using chemicals to control weeds and pests and hormones and antibiotics to promote rapid growth in his livestock.
They have grown potatoes for many years, and, with encouragement from Bernard Govier, started growing root vegetables in the mid 1990’s; the labour demand increased and so in 2004 they finally ceased to raise any livestock and put all their energies into vegetables and cider apples.
The biggest weed problem comes in the form of couch grass and gallant soldier; most broad-leafed weeds can be managed with intensive mechanical and hand-weeding, but the gallant soldier is very persistent and can quickly overpower a crop. This year they have kept it at bay and the carrots have grown well, but as you can see in the pictures, the weed is making a gallant attempt to make harvesting more difficult even at this late part of the season. It will be finished with frost, but has left its legacy of millions of seeds ready for next year!
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