Middle Ground Growers - Your Local Veg Box Scheme

We are Middle Ground Growers, a small ecological farm on 1.5 acres in Bathampton. We are young passionate growers who are determined to change our local food system by producing fresh organically grown and affordable food for all.  

We established in 2020 during the first lockdown and got our first wings with delivering up to 25 boxes last summer. A third of those were for Batheaston, from Elmhurst Estate to London Road, and Northend.    

We aim to grow healthy food to build healthy communities, whilst increasing biodiversity, sequestering carbon and building topsoil, using the tools of organics, permaculture and agroecology.  

We have 50 places available for our 2021 veg box scheme which will start mid-June and run until October. This means a veg box of your choice (small, £14 or family size, £20) delivered to your door every week. Or you can collect from the farm. It is nice bike ride across and along the river. More info and sign up online at www.middlegroundgrowers.com 

We also sell eggs, apple juice and other seasonal products directly at the farm on Dry Arch Growers site at the end of Holcombe lane.  

Veg box example

Lovely fresh free range eggs

In 2021, we upscaled the market garden – which means more tomatoes, beans and work but we are very excited - and thanks to a small grant we were able to install a 3kW of solar panels and purchase a new cargo bike. The solar now powers our whole farm – 4 cargo bikes, our electric tools, and even a walk in cool-room to keep our produce fresh and extend the season.

Solar Panels power the whole farm

2 of our 4 cargo bikes that we use for deliveries

There are great shifts happening in society both at a local and global level. We can all be part of the transition to a more ecological and more joyful world. Right now is the time to begin making these changes, given the urgency of the ecological crisis and the potency for change as we emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic. At the farm we have witnessed dozens of people making such changes, buying food seasonally, locally and organically. We can vote 3 times a day with the foods we choose to consume.

Planting out

Special delivery

So come on-board the 2021 veg adventure and support your local farmers to grow tasty food, build community resilience and joy around the pleasure of eating delicious veg from our Avon valley soils.

by Xavier Hamon – Middle Ground Growers

middlegroundgrowers.com 
veg boxes, markets and wholesale 

07708 006001