Peter Lord, farm manager at Norwood Farm, near Bath teamed up with the AHDB and Adas to convert the 290ha long-term arable farm into an integrated mixed
Stuart Thomson - Dyson Farming By extending the UK season we avoid the unnecessary food miles from imported strawberries at this time of year.â
Dyson Farming has picked the first strawberries from its new 15-acre glasshouse in Carrington, Lincolnshire. The 424m long glasshouse is powered with renewable electricity and surplus heat from Dyson Farmingâs adjacent anaerobic digester. Currently 6 hectares of strawberries are planted.
The Spring season runs from March to May followed by the Summer second flush from June/July and lastly the Autumn crop runs from October to December.
âThe first picking was on 22nd March and everything is running to schedule so far,â said Stuart Thomson, head of Marketing at Dyson Farming.