Michelle Grant

We are growing oyster mushrooms!  We started Good Small Farms in 2021 with the aim of growing local food for human beings.  Mushrooms can be an excellent addition to a balanced and healthy diet.  They are rich in fibre, vitamin D, B3, B5, folate and various minerals.  They are a delicious addition to many dishes […]

We have replanted our traditional orchard with a wide range of apple varieties, added 20 acres of agroforestry (hazels, walnuts, plums and pears in our pasture) and around 1,000 soft fruit bushes. These should start providing a harvest this year.

Welcome to our current Tree List Please contact us to make an order, for any enquiries, or for pricing on orders over £50. We are not currently set up to send plants by post, so orders will need to be collected from the farm. We are able to supplement our own stock with a wider […]

Our new tree nursery sits at the heart of our 100 acre mixed organic and regenerative farm. Our vision is to grow healthy organic plants in healthy organic soil, from local organic seed and cuttings. This is surprisingly radical; we started the nursery after discovering first hand just how difficult it was to source organic […]

The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The next best time is now. Tree planting is trendy, but being trendy isn’t always a bad thing. Native broadleaf trees are essential to wildlife of all shapes and sizes, from fungi and micromoths, to songbirds and hedgehogs. Trees can help to stabilise soil, […]

We started grafting walnuts because we like a challenge! We are proud to be one of the very few places in the UK grafting our own walnut trees. We believe that UK-grown nut crops could play a key role in the healthy and sustainable diets of the future, as we seek to reduce our consumption […]

We grow a selection of redcurrant, blackcurrant and gooseberry bushes, with jostaberries and whitecurrants in the pipeline for next year. We choose great tasting varieties suited to organic, low input cultivation. We take cuttings from our own mother plants in the nursery as well as from productive plantings elsewhere on the farm, propagate them on […]