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Saturday the 13th of October 10-4pm We are delighted to be hosting a second basket making course this October with Norah Kennedy making this kind of basket-  -At the big shed on Tomnah'a Market Garden -No experience necessary -Lunch and refreshments provided -£65 per person (please still get in touch if you would struggle to pay this) -Led by Norah Kennedy www.norahkennedywillowworker.co.uk To book please email info@tomnaha.com, we will ask for the full amount to secure your place.
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If you enjoy being outdoors amongst swathes of beautiful scented flowers, having your home filled with colourful bouquets or enjoy giving special handgrown and arranged bouquets to friends and family then you should join our flower club!
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 Come learn how to make a completely biodegradable winter wreath using local materials. Sunday 4th December 3-5.30pm in the Cow Shed at Comrie Croft (ask at reception for directions). £25 per person including mulled wine and winter treats. Book through our contact form. |  We also have a large selection of wreaths for sale at Comrie Croft and you can also find them at Hansen's Deli and Riverside Garden Centre. £15 for small and £25 for large. Completely biodegradable. |
This summer has been briliantly busy growing, harvesting and trying to get it to as many mouths as possible! It wouldn't of been possible without all the help we have had from volunteers who stay locally and our residential Woofers (Working On Organic Farmers) who have helped out so much. Particular thanks to Oriol who made us this film to show our place off- vimeo.com/179109746
Hello everyone,
Things are growing quickly at Tomnah'a with all this sunshine and we are delighted to announce that we have our first boxes available.
Fresh from the polytunnel and field, we have the following ready for harvest:
mixed salad bags, spring onions, garlic scapes, baby beetroots, purple and green kohlrabi, salad turnips, radish, baby carrots, bunches of fresh herbs, headed lettuces, strawberries, courgettes, peas, spring greens, kale and chard
eggs from our happy organically fed hens are also available.
If you would like a share of this harvest please get in touch - we are looking to have 2 collection days on a thursday 4 - 6.30pm or sunday 2 - 6pm. We are asking for between £8 - £15 a box depending on size. You can collect the box from us on the field.
Please let us know if you would like a veg box either by responding to this emailing info(at)tomnaha.com
If you would like a veg box but are unable to collect from us please let us know and we will do our best to deliver to your door at an arranged time that suits both parties.
If any of you are keen to come and get involved and would like to spend some time on the farm we are having a volunteer day on the 2nd and 4th Sunday of the month (10 - 4) where we will provide lunch and refreshments. That means its a volunteer day this coming Sunday - we have tons to plant, sow, mulch etc -
If you can't make sundays and would like to lend a hand any other day, please get in touch and we will be happy to work to your availability
Things are growing quickly at Tomnah'a with all this sunshine and we are delighted to announce that we have our first boxes available.
Fresh from the polytunnel and field, we have the following ready for harvest:
mixed salad bags, spring onions, garlic scapes, baby beetroots, purple and green kohlrabi, salad turnips, radish, baby carrots, bunches of fresh herbs, headed lettuces, strawberries, courgettes, peas, spring greens, kale and chard
eggs from our happy organically fed hens are also available.
If you would like a share of this harvest please get in touch - we are looking to have 2 collection days on a thursday 4 - 6.30pm or sunday 2 - 6pm. We are asking for between £8 - £15 a box depending on size. You can collect the box from us on the field.
Please let us know if you would like a veg box either by responding to this emailing info(at)tomnaha.com
If you would like a veg box but are unable to collect from us please let us know and we will do our best to deliver to your door at an arranged time that suits both parties.
If any of you are keen to come and get involved and would like to spend some time on the farm we are having a volunteer day on the 2nd and 4th Sunday of the month (10 - 4) where we will provide lunch and refreshments. That means its a volunteer day this coming Sunday - we have tons to plant, sow, mulch etc -
If you can't make sundays and would like to lend a hand any other day, please get in touch and we will be happy to work to your availability
We are organising a Tomnah'a Spring Workday next Sunday (22nd May) we have lots of planting out to do, harvesting, making beds, mulching and more. If you would like to come help us from 10-4pm you would be more than welcome in return for a box of produce. please RSVP so we know how much lunch to prepare.
We are experimenting with all kinds of growing techniques that improve the soil and are not organic but regenerative- building fertility and creating more habitats for wildlife. Here are some of the methods we are experimenting with, more info to follow as we grow:
Hugelkultur- making beds with lots of organic matter buried underneath like rotting logs, turf and organic waste. We have built these in the flower garden and the soil is already noticeably more rich, water retentive and hopefully fertile.
No dig beds- we have brought in an awful lot of cow manure and council compost to build up fertile beds in the polytunnel. So far we have noticed a huge amount of wire worm eating the roots of our crops.. but nevertheless we have created very fertile beds for the crops to grow in..
Ramial Wood Chip Mulch- we spent a good while in the woods in the depths of winter chipping deciduous small diameter wood. This is a beneficial mulch for perennial crops as it creates a forest floor environment encouraging mycorrhizal activity helping the plants take up nutrient from the soil and conserving water. We have a left a strip of soft fruit without the special woodchip to see if it makes a difference.. watch this space..
Hugelkultur- making beds with lots of organic matter buried underneath like rotting logs, turf and organic waste. We have built these in the flower garden and the soil is already noticeably more rich, water retentive and hopefully fertile.
No dig beds- we have brought in an awful lot of cow manure and council compost to build up fertile beds in the polytunnel. So far we have noticed a huge amount of wire worm eating the roots of our crops.. but nevertheless we have created very fertile beds for the crops to grow in..
Ramial Wood Chip Mulch- we spent a good while in the woods in the depths of winter chipping deciduous small diameter wood. This is a beneficial mulch for perennial crops as it creates a forest floor environment encouraging mycorrhizal activity helping the plants take up nutrient from the soil and conserving water. We have a left a strip of soft fruit without the special woodchip to see if it makes a difference.. watch this space..
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Tomnah’a Market Garden Spring Newsletter 2016
Hello Everyone,
Firstly a Big Thank You to everyone who came to our events last March. We were overwhelmed by the turn out and the encouragement from everyone who came along and has made all the hard work well worth it knowing there is so much support out there.
A second big thank you to new volunteers who have been coming out rain or shine to help us in the garden, it gives us a huge boost knowing people are keen to come and join us and believe in what we are doing. It won’t be long until we can thank you properly with boxes of tasty fruit and veg!
Everything has been moving very fast since then as spring usually does. As you will of seen our polytunnels have been skinned and everything is shooting up in there now, we have quite a huge job of watering now as we await an irrigation system.
Other great news is that we were very lucky to be awarded £50,000 from the Scottish Government to put in the main infrastructure. This is a huge relief knowing what we are able to manage and will pay for the deer fencing surrounding the field, an irrigation system, a tool/ packing shed in the centre of the field, electricity connection and a hard standing track leading to the shed.
Our third big event was the arrival of our young hens who are settling in nice and chirpily. They live in the red shed which will eventually move to the young woodland on the west of the field. You will see their mix of brown and speckled delicious fresh eggs in the Croft Shop in the next few weeks.
Other goings on:
Veg Boxes:
We have come to the decision to not go ahead with delivering veg boxes this year. We are behind with a few of our crops due to the delay with the polytunnel and we still have lots of infrastructure and setting up to do, taking us away from the growing side of things. We felt the pressure of delivering 20 boxes this year would be a bit too much to take on. However, we will be starting ‘Harvest Days’ once and possibly twice a week. We will invite people to come help harvest and/ or make up a box of fruit and veg to take and pay what they feel it is worth. This will give us a better idea of what is popular and make the veg boxes even better for next year. We also hope it will be a chance for people to help out if they like or come and buy some produce at the end of the day. Watch this space for more information.
If you have any suggestions, would like to get in touch please do- info@tomnaha.com
Thank you for reading,
The Tomnah’a Team- James, Cristy, Sam and Judith
Hello Everyone,
Firstly a Big Thank You to everyone who came to our events last March. We were overwhelmed by the turn out and the encouragement from everyone who came along and has made all the hard work well worth it knowing there is so much support out there.
A second big thank you to new volunteers who have been coming out rain or shine to help us in the garden, it gives us a huge boost knowing people are keen to come and join us and believe in what we are doing. It won’t be long until we can thank you properly with boxes of tasty fruit and veg!
Everything has been moving very fast since then as spring usually does. As you will of seen our polytunnels have been skinned and everything is shooting up in there now, we have quite a huge job of watering now as we await an irrigation system.
Other great news is that we were very lucky to be awarded £50,000 from the Scottish Government to put in the main infrastructure. This is a huge relief knowing what we are able to manage and will pay for the deer fencing surrounding the field, an irrigation system, a tool/ packing shed in the centre of the field, electricity connection and a hard standing track leading to the shed.
Our third big event was the arrival of our young hens who are settling in nice and chirpily. They live in the red shed which will eventually move to the young woodland on the west of the field. You will see their mix of brown and speckled delicious fresh eggs in the Croft Shop in the next few weeks.
Other goings on:
- Cristy and Judith had a great day at the Wee Nosey Wedding Fair at the Croft meeting wedding couples excited about having beautiful, natural and scented flowers at their weddings, and now the bookings are piling in!
- We had an energetic group of Dirty Weekenders (Edinburgh students) come help us for a weekend making beds, moving tonnes of compost and manure, mulching and planting trees and making paths around the flower garden. Thank you Dirties!
- Our first crops are being harvested from the poly tunnel which you can taste at the newly opened Tea Garden- crisp, tasty spinach and mixed spicy salad. Soon to be available at the Comrie Croft Shop and Hansen’s Deli too.
- Less great news is that we have a huge amount of wire worms living in the soil eating the roots of our crops. These are often found on areas of previous grassland but we didn’t think it would be this bad! We are going to get the hens in to one of the tunnels to peck them out before our precious tomatoes go in but will wait and see what happens to the crops already in the ground..
- We have also been working on our website, there is still plenty to do but you can have a look www.tomnaha.com and let us know what you think.
Veg Boxes:
We have come to the decision to not go ahead with delivering veg boxes this year. We are behind with a few of our crops due to the delay with the polytunnel and we still have lots of infrastructure and setting up to do, taking us away from the growing side of things. We felt the pressure of delivering 20 boxes this year would be a bit too much to take on. However, we will be starting ‘Harvest Days’ once and possibly twice a week. We will invite people to come help harvest and/ or make up a box of fruit and veg to take and pay what they feel it is worth. This will give us a better idea of what is popular and make the veg boxes even better for next year. We also hope it will be a chance for people to help out if they like or come and buy some produce at the end of the day. Watch this space for more information.
If you have any suggestions, would like to get in touch please do- info@tomnaha.com
Thank you for reading,
The Tomnah’a Team- James, Cristy, Sam and Judith
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