✨👑 Hampshire Watercress — Fit for a King 👑✨ Our watercress has truly come up Trumps! 🌱We’re beyond proud that Sunbeam Watercress was featured on the menu at the state banquet at Windsor Castle for President Donald Trump. Guests dined in the splendour of St George’s Hall, where the feast began with a Hampshire watercress…
Nothing goes to waste 🌿 We make use of excess crops by using traditional methods like scything and transplanting. The tops are spread into empty beds to keep the cycle going. Sustainable farming at its roots 🌱♻️ SustainableFarming #NoWaste #RegenerativeAgriculture #TraditionalFarming #OrganicLiving #FarmLife #EcoFriendly #GrowYourOwn #Permaculture #ZeroWasteFarm
Taking a look back through the albums. Seen here, the Founder of Sunbeam Watercress Ivor Noble, inspecting the restructuring of the gravel beds, during the expansion in the 1950s #history #watercress #farming #generations #family #succession
Runs in the family; 4th generation working today during the holidays #family #son #nephew #succession #sunbeamwatercress #watercress
Spring is definitely here. Seed planting is now well under way . Ready for harvest in Early may.
Spring is coming. Febuary every year we start to clean out lasts years crop and start to propagate our first seeds, ready for planting in the first week in March.
Simply the best of English Watercress you will find around at this time of year. We are unique being able to supply watercress 52 weeks of the year, despite the testing winter, we are still able to produce a large leaf, clean stems , full of flavour. #supportlocal #Romseywatercress #sunbeamwatercress
Traditional methods still being used, the witches brush …..it enables us to protect the leaf and stem with the cold weather now here, encouraging new shoots to grow for a thicker crop in a few weeks time .
Starting to raise the water levels to protect the stem and leaf . Ready for our first cold night
