Lyburn Oganic Vegetable Growers.
Lyburn farm has grown vegetables for about 30 years now, alongside the herd of 180 dairy cows. Crops grown over this period have been, early bunched carrots, broad beans, runner beans, and more laterly, the principal crops were sweet corn, pumpkin and squash. However over the years the market place has changed quite dramatically no to mention the environment arround us, so we have endeavoured to change with it.

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Lyburn Farm and Jonathan
win Riverford Organics Grower of the year award

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Farm History.
Lyburn farm lies on the northern edge of the New Forest, straddling the small river Blackwater, and has been farmed by the Smales family and Mike and Judy in particular for the last 38 years. The river Blackwater rises on some of the high ground of the forest and as the heather and gorse gives way, to the old ancient oak forest, home of the fallow deer, the countryside falls away sharply towards the north. In the bottom of the valley you will find the Hamptworth estate, of which Lyburn farm is part. The name Lyburn, is in fact quite unique, it is derived from the Scottish, lye 'born', and burn 'river', 'borne by the river', and with the Blackwater on either side we certainly are.

Ten years ago we joined the Soil Association, and converted 37 acres of our vegetable ground to organic status. Having completed our 2 year conversion period on March 1st, 2001 , we were in a position to supply Organic vegetables. Time never stands still, and in 2004 it became obvious that we were going to need more ground, so we put into conversion another 20 acres, and then another 30 acres in 2005. Growing organic vegetables on a commercial scale is not as easy as you might think. All the easy options of fertilizer and chemicals are not available to you, and as a result much more hand labour and timeliness is required.

.To e-mail us at the farm, type in this address, m.smales@farmline.com then type Lyburn Farm in the subject box to get past our anti spam or use m.smales@hotmail.com

or Phone Mike on 01794 390451 or Jono 07775 883464