Grown in Totnes Case Study
Totnes Case Study
Harvesting the Crops
Because we weren’t growing the crops ourselves it was vital that we had good relationships with our farmers; we wanted to ensure that our crops were harvested and kept to a premium quality. Considerable worry would accompany the time around harvest, as the weather seemed to annually reliably deteriorate at just the wrong time.
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Chapter 4 Sections
4.1 When to Harvest the Crop?
4.2 What to Put in Place Prior to Harvesting?
4.4 Alternatives to the Combine
4.5 Straw for Housing
4.7 Community Involvement
4.1 When to Harvest the Crop?
This video will help you to identify when your crop is ready for harvest and gives some information on combining crops.
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4.2 What to Put in Place Prior to Harvesting?
Here we share our experience of what happened when we didn’t fully prepare for harvest time.
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4.4 Alternatives to the Combine
This video explores the alternative option of using a reaper binder, rather than a combine harvester.
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4.5 Straw for Housing
Watch this video to find out how our straw was used to build a local straw bale house.
All resources referred to in this video can be found within our Resources page.
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4.7 Community Involvement
We used harvest time as an opportunity to involve our supporters, as we illustrate in this video.
All resources referred to in this video can be found within our Resources page.
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