Researching the Local Farmer: Namayasai
One of my friends in Sussex Roots introduced Namayasai to me when I asked them about the local farmers in Brighton. What is NAMAYASAI? It is a Japanese veggie farmers run by a couple, Robin Williams and his wife Ikuko. They grow and sell dozens of different organic Japanese vegetables by delivering Japanese vegetable box. According to their website, http://www.namayasai.co.uk/ , it is "b ased in Lewes, in the county of East Sussex, England. [They] were among the first growers in the UK to pioneer the agroforestry method known as 'alley cropping' and to attempt to use conservation biological control in a commercial free-of-subsidy setting. After 13 years [they] still use no pesticides, no fungicides and no herbicides - not even the approved organic chemicals. In this 8th year of setting up the alley cropping system it is still in it's infancy as we try to propagate trees that will both thrive in the range of soils nature has given [them] and that wi...
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