Close Farm Organic

Close farm located in Tetbury, Gloucester, is managed primarily by Fred. Whilst assisted by some able volunteers, Fred works as the solely employed grower, so he tends to be quite busy. The farm is an extensive affair with a bank of polytunnels supplementing a 3-acre market garden and a further 4 acres of field crops where the likes of potatoes are grown. The market garden is also the location for an extensive collection of traditional and rare apple trees – arranged to create crop alleys that enable crops to be grown between the trees, feeding on the leaves and other detritus that falls and fertilises the ground.