Tour of North Aston Organics
26 June @ 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Join Mark for a tour of the North Aston Organics farm.
Meet at the honesty shop.
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North Aston Organics was started by Mark and Ginny Stay. After numerous false starts (chartered surveying, the army, pharmaceutical packing, and selling juggling balls on Eastbourne pier), Mark thought he would turn his allotmenteering hobby into a job. Five years later, after working with various horticulture projects, we were ready to start, but where? Well, to cut a long story short, we found some land to rent with a supportive landowner and got stuck in.
Like most people starting a business, we were blindly optimistic, but we had ‘done the course’ and gained some experience. The fact that we had a two-year-old in tow and another baby on the way meant failure was not an option. Also, they say career paths often skip a generation, so we were hoping a bit of green fingered-ness would be inherited from Ginny’s Kentish fruit growing grandparents and Mark’s Isle of Wight gardener grandfather.
And suddenly more than 25 years have passed and here we are, still growing as wide a range of vegetables as possible, from Aubergines to Zucchini (sorry, courgettes, but what else begins with ‘z’?). And now we have a great team working alongside us – seven people both full- and part-time, who share the same drive to grow delicious, healthy vegetables, and sell them locally.