Wales is famous for many things - leeks, daffodils and Ivor The Engine are just three of them - but you very rarely hear the words Wales and Gulf Stream uttered together. We don’t know why, because the whole south of the country benefits from the nice warm air blowing in all the way from the Caribbean, fending off nasty frosts. That lets us grow our healthy happy produce all year round.
It means you’ll find our yellowy daffs flowering in sunny Glamorgan, our plump and luscious Caulis doing their stuff down at the bottom of the country, and our mushrooms thriving on organic Welsh oak chips just below the winter snow line in the Southern hills. That’s just near the green green grass of home you'll have heard Tom Jones crooning over.
But what of our lovely leeks? Well, they’re not too fond of the shallow warm soils down south and prefer the deeper, richer, more down to earth soils of the north, which is why we only ever grow them in Flintshire. We pull them from September to March every year, and each one is its own little advertisement for the never-ending wonder of Welsh soil.
We only farm certain parts of Wales at the moment BUT with your help and support then we can get the whole of Wales marketing its crops to the World!
