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TOFF Farm
Happy Snowy Day healthy life seekers 🤗
Our focus today is on the beautiful outdoors spaces we occupy, be it a farm, a garden, an allotment, a shared community green space or a park we enjoy 🌲
Our beautiful outdoor green space is super important for both our physical and mental health 🌳
Research has found strong and important links between our green spaces and our use thereof with a more robust immune system and faster recovery post surgery so let’s not wait a moment longer and come rain, sun or snow ❄️ let’s wrap up warm - thermals on this week in the UK - and enjoy our green spaces 🤗
Connect with our roots 🌱
Tree talk ~ super important to our natural human habitat, these beauties mop up the CO2 produced and replace it with ’clean’ oxygen.
If you have room within your green space you will benefit hugely by planting trees, you’ll experience cleaner air, natural shade and even better too……a natural, organic food source 🌳
Fruit trees provide all the above along with beautiful flowers in Spring through to Autumn (dependant on variety)
Here at TOFF HQ when setting up our organic fruit production we planted, bare root stock in Spring 2021;
🌳 Prunus Peach “Gorgeous”
🌳 Pyrus Pear “Beurre Hardy”
🌳 Apple “Fiesta”
🌳 Prunus Peach “Peregrine”
🌳 Prunus Plum “Marjorie’s Seedling”
🌳 Malus Apple “May Queen”
🌳 Malus Apple “ Pitmason Pineapple”
🌳 Pyrus Pear “Louise Bonne of Jersey”
🌳 Cherry “Summer Sun”
these beauties are already blossoming and were chosen specifically to provide organic fruit production (when mature) from Spring through to Winter to ensure we have all seasons in production, very important to the farm 🌳
Choosing on a large farm scale also needs pollination - cross pollination consideration to guarantee production, a reason why the specific varieties and types were chosen. If you are looking to start up organic fruit production do drop us an email, we can share our TOFF tips with you 🤗
Weather 🌧
The UK weather has changed compared to past years, it’s all natural change ~ NOT what the bureaucracy 🤮 states, it’s all natural and we as humans ebb and flow naturally with natures change too 🤗
Our Winters are getting wetter - more downpours and our Summers are prone to more thunderstorms so as part of our natural ebb and flow we need systems to preserve and store excess rainwater (see our latest blog on rainwater harvesting) and / or ground which soaks up the excess. Solid concrete is a big no, no in our outside space - highly toxic in its production and provision of zero benefit to our natural environment!
Instead, gravel or bark surfaces are much more sustainable - natural products, non toxic which allow for water absorption🤗
If your space allows - a shed, an extension, a flat roof - a living roof also works super well for water absorption, increasing the biodiversity in your green / home space and provided sheer beauty throughout all seasons 🤗
Walls covered with climbing plants and shrubs also support water absorption and if those climbers are organic food sources too - berries - it’s a win win win 🤗
Composting ☘️
Composting in your green / outside space is vital to the performance of your growing ☘️
Composting bins can be made from old pallets / old timber - you need 3 boxes making ideally or can be acquired off the shelf as fully insulated unit 🌱
Composting allows you to dispose of your kitchen food wastes, lawn clippings and the contents of your composting toilet! (Composting toilets will feature in our future blogs🤗)
Another win win win, preventing waste from going into toxic landfill, saves money from not needing to buy organic fertiliser for your plants, greatly improves your soil and results in your soil holding more carbon and water 💦 🙌
Nature 🐝
Supporting our local wildlife in our green spaces is key to looking after our planet and feeding ourselves organically and ensuring our happy, healthy life preservation for future years 🤗
Introduce ‘bug spaces’ ~ nature likes to hang out and chill just like us humans too 🤗
Insect hotels are super - they can be purchased from local garden centres or made - if it has holes and a space to get out of the weather and is positioned in a safe private place whereby insects aren’t bothered by us humans ~ you’ve got yourself a hotel!
Old bark, rotting wood are also great hang out zones for insects so take it easy on that garden tidying and leave a little space of ‘untidiness’ for our creatures, nettles too - our butterfly community love them so do have a few, even if only grown in a pot if you like things tidy 🤗 🦋
Our nature doesn’t enjoy security lights and being ‘lit’ in the dark hours so if possible phase this out of your green space and allow them the same dark time that we too as humans need 🤗
Plastic is a big no no so no artificial lawns or plastics which are super toxic and constantly VOC - some so especially in the Summer months - toxic to us as humans and our nature, keep it clean, green and natural - timber furniture, clay pots, organic cotton / linen / hemp fabric coverings 🤗
Enjoy your beautiful green space happy healthy life seekers, we have a beautiful world and we all deserve to enjoy every moment in our great outdoors🌳
Happy Day,
Love, TOFF xxx🤗
🌳🌱🐝🌲🌿🌱☘️🦋🌲🌱🌳💦🍀☘️🌳🐝
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