Event Date : April 12, 2025
Event Time : 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Event Location : Delfland Nurseries Ltd Benwick Road Doddington PE15 0TU
Join the OGA for a farm tour and Q&A on plant raising at Delfland Nurseries in Cambridgeshire.
OGA are delighted to be returning to Delfland Nurseries with a full tour of the site. This is a fantastic opportunity to learn from the leading organic propagators. Full tour + Q&A with owners Jill and John.
Tea and coffee will be available at the beginning of the tour, but please bring anything else you might need (water, snacks, etc). The tour and Q&A will finish at 5pm, and there is a local pub down the road for anyone who wants to continue networking and socialising.
About Delfland
Delfland Nurseries Ltd. (established 1979) is owned and run by Jill Vaughan and John Overvoorde. We employ about 22 people all year round plus extra seasonal staff at busy times.
There are 3.1 hectares of glasshouses plus outdoor areas for hardening-off plants. Most seed is machine sown. A computer controls the growing environment. Heating is by 3 biomass boilers burning woodchip from nearby forests.
We grow a wide range of vegetable and salad plants for customers all over the UK ranging in size from large companies supplying supermarkets to small businesses supplying local farmers’ markets and vegetable box schemes.
We are the leading organic propagator and grow about 33 million plants a year of which 73% is grown to Soil Association standards.
Main products are brassicas, alliums, herbs and outdoor cucurbits in modules; celery and leafy salads in blocks. We also produce grafted aubergines, tomatoes and cucumbers.
We are peat-free apart from the blocks, which are 80% peat and 20% green waste compost.
Our retail shop sells mostly plants grown on the nursery – flowers and vegetable plants.
We also sell online to small growers via www.delfland.co.uk
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