Godney Aquaponics


Godney Aquaponics
In the village of Godney, with the beautiful back drop of the Glastonbury Tor, Melv and Sal are embarking on a new venture. Fed up with the poor quality of veg in the shops, they have the ambition to set up an aquaponics system to provide fresh vegetables and salad crops for the village, and with a little help from their hens a supply of fresh free range eggs too.


What is Aquaponics??


What is Aquaponics??
Aquaponics is a sustainable method of producing quality food with minimal external inputs. It is a system that combines conventional aquaculture (e.g. fish in tanks) with hydroponics (cultivating plants in water) in a symbiotic environment. Water from the aquaculture system is fed to the hydroponic system where the by-products are broken down and are utilised by the plants as nutrients, and the water is then re-circulated back to the aquaculture system.


Monday, 9 March 2020

Spring is here - for Connovers Colossal

Our Connovers Colossal asparagus is ready. The 3-year wait is over, we finally get to reap the rewards  and have one of the treats of being in the horticultural business. Now growing in the tunnel the large thick spears are poking their heads up through and they are growing as you watch them at over a cm as day! After a sneaky try just to check that the spears do have the exceptional flavour claimed - which we can confirm they do - we offered them to the Sheppey Inn as we had promised to do. 

 Godney Asparagus is going on the menu...
And so it did with sword fish, Godney collard greens

Garnished with Godney salad, Godney pea shoots and Godney sweet corn shoots


Sweet corn shoots are our latest find, grown as a micro, in the dark over just a 5 day timeframe they have a taste like nothing else. They have a distinctive sweet corn tang, but the sweetness is almost indescribable, akin to that of candy, but a succulent texture that completely contradicts the sugary hit - just amazing...
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