Next Friday, 30th August, we’ll be holding a Cake Bake sale in conjunction with our Friday morning farm gate, to raise funds for Fortuneswell Cancer Unit in memory of Piers Garner.

Piers, who many local people will know, and his wife Steph who works for us, previously ran Bridport Record Centre/Bridport Music. Since the business was sold, Piers has been an integral part of the team here at Bothen Hill in his capacity as mender of anything non agricultural and general handiman. He’s repaired scales (many times), other electrical items (numerous times), door locks, hinges and turned his hand to decorating and other tasks. Fortuneswell Cancer Unit was the charity chosen by Steph and family for donations and we’d like to support them with a great Cake Sale. Please do come along and bring your friends and neighbours, to support this local cause.

It’s that time of year again when the asparagus has decided it’s time to finish so Friday 14th June will be our final day for availability.

However, new season’s veg are now starting to appear, we’re picking broad beans and this week sees the arrival of the French beans too.

In the tunnels the tomatoes are just starting to ripen, hopeful that this will continue and they will be available next week 21st, also courgettes.

Watch the ordering page to see what else is available.

Updated 22 April

Asparagus is growing, albeit rather slowly, but definitely as delicious as ever! Find it here at the Farm Gate every Friday morning until noon, or from the Asparagus Station outside the house 24/7 with honesty box

Also currently available at Fruits of the Earth in Bridport and Fruit & 2 Veg in Beaminster – watch this space for more retail outlets to come on board as the season progresses and quantities increase.

We’re delighted that the first of the asparagus is now being harvested here at Bothen Hill. This Friday, week ending 12th April, it will be available from the farm gate between 9.00 am and 12 noon; thereafter it will be available 24/7 from the asparagus station outside the house with honesty box, priced currently at £5 per bunch. As the season progresses we’ll be supplying our regular retail outlets – we update this post and make announcements on social media when this happens.

We’ve already arrived at Easter – as many of you will know Hungry Gap arrived early but we have struggled through – just. We’re now seeing new season’s produce coming along and already have PSB, Tenderstem (from the tunnel) and rhubarb. Hopefully the asparagus won’t be far behind.

In the meantime we’re open as usual on Friday 29th March for farm gate sales until noon; as well as the above we have a supply of seasonal veg, as outlined on our ordering page, freshly picked or dug so come along and select your weekend vegetables.

We’ll be open on Friday 22nd December for farm gate sales and collection of orders. Saturday 23rd is collection of pre orders only.

We’ll then be shut on Friday 29th December and will re-open for farm gate sales on Friday 5th January 2024.

Please see our ordering page for vegetable availability.

Wishing all our customers, past, present and future a very Happy Christmas and Healthy New Year from the team at Bothen Hill.

The asparagus season is now coming to an end at Bothen Hill. We will be picking for the last time during the week ending Friday 16th June and will have some available at the farm gate that day. If you want to order please email us by noon on Thursday 15th – first come first served!

It’s been a fairly challenging season for the asparagus this year, it may have continued if we’d had some rain, but that was not to be; hopefully it will come along soon and then we’ll be hoping for sunshine to build up the crowns ready to produce next season. Thank you for supporting us by buying our award-winning asparagus.

The recent sunny weather, and increased tempretures at night, means that the asparagus is now appearing in quantity.

The Asparagus Station here at Bothen Hill is stocked 24/7 so you can pick up delicious fresh asparagus any time and use the honesty box for payment. In addition it’s available every Friday morning until noon at the farm gate, together with other seasonal vegetables.

We’re very fortunate to have a group of loyal shops who also stock our asparagus; you can buy from Washingpool Farm Shop and Fruits of the Earth in Bridport, Modbury Farm Shop at Burton Bradstock and Fruitn2Veg in Beaminster – we aim to keep them well stocked with freshly picked asparagus as required.

We’re now starting to pick the first of this year’s asparagus and as at today, 21st April, it’s available at our Asparagus Station just outside the house – quantities are limited, we’re currently only picking every other day, but hopefully with the sunshine yields will soon pick up.

As and when quantities increase it will be available from local retail outlets in Bridport/Beaminster/Burton Bradstock.

We’ll be open for Farm Gate Sales as usual on Friday 7th April, notwithstanding the fact that it’s a Bank Holding. Lots of lovely fresh produce, including this season’s spinach, rhubarb and possibly spring greens if the weather holds.

For those of you who are eagerly awaiting the asparagus, we’re hopeful of this being available within the next 3 weeks; however please watch the web site for updates or follow us on Instagram and Twitter.

We’re now into mid February, not sure where this year has gone so far, but it has been slightly challenging from a vegetable point of view.

However, we’re delighted that the various kales which we grow are holding up well, amazing considereing how little rain they had when they were planted. Unfortunately the majority of our cauliflower crop was wiped out by the frosts, but the sprouts are still going strong.

Roots have produced well, except for the parsnips unfortunately, but the swedes, carrots and celeriac all taste great

Planting is now in full swing, both direct sowing of seeds outside, spinach, chard, beetroot and mixed salad and individual seeds in modules too. The leeks and onions are doing very well and we’ve also got tomatoes, peppers, aubergines and spring cabbage and calabrese looking good.

Don’t forget that we’re open every Friday morning until noon at the farm gate where you can purchase our freshly-harvested vegetables.