Stanhill Farm News!

Happy New Year to all of our customers! We hope you had an enjoyable and restful Christmas. 2019 was a very good year for the farm, with the Pick Your Own, Maize Maze and Pumpkin Patch all becoming busier than ever and the Farm Shop thriving due to an ever increasing number of loyal and supportive customers. It has also been great to see an influx of customers embracing healthy eating and getting 2020 off to a great start!

With all the winter bugs around and after the excesses of Christmas, it is the perfect time to boost those vitamin C levels with some delicious citrus fruits! Blood oranges are now in season - a rather gruesome name for a wonderfully sweet and beautifully coloured fruit. The inside flesh of a Blood orange is usually brilliantly dark pink, maroon or even dark blood red.

For any marmalade makers we have Seville oranges available. Seville are ideal for making marmalade, although every bit of the fruit from the zest to the juice and pips can be used in cooking. The season for Seville oranges is very short so make the most of them while you can!

Nadorcotts are also now available. This lovely clementine type mandarin is easy peeling, with a great depth of flavour and sweetness and a good acidity balance. Nadorcotts have over taken satsumas in terms of popularity, and with the seasons getting shorter for satsumas, more growers have now gone over to nadorcotts. 

We are currently harvesting Purple Sprouting broccoli, Brussels sprouts - loose, Brussels sprouts - stems (tops included), Brussels sprouts - tops, January King, Savoy and Tundra cabbages, Red and Green kale, kalettes and leeks.