Organic cereals event a big hit

Jimi and Sarah came away from the 2009 Organic Farmers & Growers national cereal event knowing with even more certainty that going organic was the right thing to do as much for the ethics as for the economics.

Amongst the expert speakers were a marketing guru expressing his view of the organic market and farmers from the front line discussing their own experiences. Other highlights included the lunch of organic roast beef and the "big kit" - both big sellers for our Launceston Farm team who even made it onto one of the official event photos!

Organic Farmers & Growers have a very lively blog with lots of interesting stuff on organics from around the world if you are intersted in finding out more.

History revisited at Launceston Farm

Ploughing up unusual objects is not all that uncommon for farmers but we all got a bit of a shock when, out cultivating, we upturned a World War II aeriel bomb in Scraggs field. The highly efficient RAF bomb squad travelled 200 miles from their base to diffuse the mechanism which was all very exciting - particularly for the chaps on the farm...

Historical artifacts from the war are fairly regularly upturned at Launceston. The countryside adjoining the North side of the farm, Crichel Down, was used as an RAF bombing range during the second world war. On a more romantic note, Jimi's grandfather, the first generation of this farming family to reside at Launceston, married one of the land girls working on the farm during the war, Judy Castle. He proposed to her in the Crown Hotel in Blandford over a cup of tea.