Ironically visiting the isle with a local plan to eradicate food production on grade 1 land...🤣🤦‍♂️

Brown swathe is compulsory purchased farmland - taken off farmers at agricultural rates for National Grid Sealink project to build a green energy converter station in Kent. It could have been on a brownfield site but those are more expensive.

Living land - showcasing farming in North East Kent. Nearly 3,000 kids and some worn out voices 🤣 Real interest in what makes their toast and sandwiches!

Not long! #broadbeans

#NorthEastKent cluster group attended #ThanetEarth. Led by Jack Scott of #FWAGSouthEast, guest speakers Mark Betson from the #NFU and Samantha Hughes from the #SouthEastRiversTrust discussed water usage, abstraction and sustainable farming.

Nice to get something off the ground after a difficult start, lack of rain and water supply doesn't feel me with confidence...

Every Wednesday, it's always great to see my original plot that was left to grow over - turned into a welcoming and growing community garden with The Perfect Place To Grow!

Poor broad beans this year, lots of pods on the bottom foot, nothing on the rest...

Courgettes won't be long! No notable differences between compost and no compost, also notably alot more moisture on ground that was worked 4 times (sub, rotavate x 2, power harrow) before planting than the subsoil and rotavate ground ....

On World Environment Day we celebrate the wonderful diversity of our little patch in the South East 🌍 #fwagse #fwagsoutheast #worldenvrionmentday #southeastengland #farming #countryside #landscape #wildlife

Now grow....

A new government-backed scheme is offering funded expert water assessments to help farmers safeguard their farms from droughts 👇 farminguk.com/news/water-sec…

Beetroot looking good! Only water received was during germination via drip tape, or the timely downpours!

Funky looking courgettes!

The last plants are in, now with 15mm.

Great afternoon talking veg, weeds, pests and consumers with Nonington village this afternoon! - even featuring a small pyo on the way out..

Crisp radish looking great!