A no-dig market garden · Totnes

Eat what the field grew this week.

Half Acre is one field, two growers and fifty-two veg boxes a year. Pulled Tuesday morning, packed by noon, on your doorstep Wednesday — dirt still on, flavour still in.

Start a box

A wicker box of fresh vegetables — lettuce, tomatoes, beets and onions

Field to door

A carrot's thirty hours.

Supermarket veg is often weeks old before it reaches a shelf. Here's our whole supply chain, in four steps.

Pulled

Tuesday, first light. We harvest to the box list, not to a forecast — nothing is pulled that isn't already spoken for.
Washed & sorted

Cold well water, wooden crates, ruthless honesty: the wonky but perfect go in the boxes, the truly odd go in the soup bag, free.
Packed

Every box packed by the person who grew what's in it. The week's note goes on top — what's inside and one honest recipe.
Your doorstep

Wednesday morning, by bike trailer in town and the van for the villages. The empty box comes back next week. It's a loop, not a delivery.

The boxes

Three sizes, one field.

Weekly, pause any time, no lock-in. Contents change with the season because the field doesn't do repeats.

The Solo

£14 per week

Seven or eight things for one enthusiastic eater — salads, roots, greens and the week's surprise.

The weekly note & recipe
Pause with two days' notice

Start a Solo

The Family

£24 per week

The house box — enough veg to shape the week's cooking for four, with doubles of the staples.

Doubles of roots & greens
The free soup bag when it's odd-shape season

Start a Family box

The Abundance

£34 per week

For the fermenters, the batch cookers, the six-person households. A box with ambitions.

First call on gluts
Preserving quantities on request

Start an Abundance

The field

No-dig, which mostly means patience.

We never turn the soil — beds are built up with compost each winter and the worms do the ploughing. It looks like laziness and is actually the whole philosophy: feed the soil, and the soil feeds the plants.

No sprays, no plastic mulch, no tractor. Half an acre worked by hand grows more than you'd believe and wastes almost nothing.

Neat rows of butterhead lettuce in dark no-dig soil

In season

What the field is doing.

A rolling snapshot — the boxes follow whatever's proudest this week.

A basket heaped with freshly pulled carrots

Roots

Carrots — pulled the morning you read this

A basket of green beans fresh from the row

Summer

Beans — a fortnight of glut, then gone

Salads

Butterheads — cut with the dew still on

Half Acre, counted

Small field, honest numbers.

52 Box weeks a year, field willing

30h From soil to your doorstep

0 Sprays, ever, on anything

2 Growers — you'll meet us both at the gate

The bet

Feed the soil and the soil feeds everyone.

The whole method, in nine words

Box people

Notes back with the empties

My five-year-old ate a raw carrot straight from the box with the dirt wiped on his trousers. He has refused carrots for three years. I nearly framed it.

Kate D.Family box, year two

The weekly note radicalised my cooking. I now have opinions about chard. I did not plan to have opinions about chard.

Ollie S.Solo box

Cancelled my supermarket delivery slot after a month. The box decides dinner now and dinner got better.

Meera J.Abundance, with the ferments to prove it

The field note

One email, Tuesday evening.

The gate

Come see the field.

Gate's open Saturday mornings — walk the beds, meet the worms' work, and take the surplus shelf seriously. Box sign-ups by email or phone.

Email: hello@example.com
Phone: +44 1803 555 019
Address: Totnes
Hours: Deliveries Wednesday Gate open Saturdays 9–12

Eat what the field grew this week.

Pulled

Washed & sorted

Packed

Your doorstep