Goffin REKO

Crispin here - I'll be at Mosshayne Lane Farm (courtyard) today (Good Fri 7 Apr) with a selection of bottles. A nice place to leisurely explore on a sunny day. 🚶🐕 The farm shop has seasonal organic veg (Leeks, Savoys, Swedes, eggs at moment). There's also some garden plants and secondhand bits (vinyls, VHS, books) - proceeds to wildlife charity. 🚜 Cash only.

I have some mm108 apple rootstocks going spare if anybody interested? They're quite large, but could be grown-on to create a Family Tree on cut down to propagate from once established. - Crispin

It's that time of the week again. Tomorrow is a new Friday and a new chance to join the beautiful community of Goffin Reko farmer Market. Cat & Ed CruDelights is looking forward to seeing you there to share their latest creation, a colourful and tasty traditional summery Italian rice salad.
See you all there are 5pm. 🙂

Today we managed to bake some fresh bread that you'll find at our market. But you will also find lasagne, Sicilian cannoli and all the other delicious Italian specialties.
It's the right season to make a trip up Stoke Hill and check what incredible paradise Living Soil Garden is. We hope to see you there!

Summer is on the way.
It's time for some summery delights.
Tomorrow, at Goffin Reko, Crudelights will present their latest creation.
A all plant based colourful barley salad filled with healthy veggies and flavour.
Plus, there will be the "Farinata" slice, the home made classic hummus and the ever present and much loved carrot cake.
Let's celebrate another great Friday market with all yours favourite people.
See you all tomorrow😊

Got some Jasmine trying to get in my window. Think it liked the mild Winter. Don't think it's edible though (although Jasmine Tea?) 🌸

This evening at 5pm we will be at Goffin REKO! There will be some fresh salad (just picked!) with Lettuce, baby Spinach, baby Kale, Rocket, Borage and Violas. If you fancy some spring colour and freshness on your plate, come see us.
On our stall there will also be lots of Purple Sprouting Broccoli, Spinach, Stir-fry leaves, Rainbow Chard, Radish, Rocket, and last of the Leeks!

We look forward to seeing you at Living Soil Garden (EX4 9JL) - at 5pm!

Early April Tour - Transplanting in the field, Grafting Tomatoes, Irrigation and the magic Dibbler In this video tour, I take you around the garden to see what we are transplanting and what is growing in our beds. I also show you a tool that many of you ha...

We are excited to announce that Goffin REKO Farmers Market is back TODAY at 5pm! You can now buy local produce directly from Living Soil Garden.

We hope to see you this this evening at 5pm on Goffin Land, where you will find some fantastic local produce, brought to you directly by the producers. And they will be excited to tell you everything you want to know about the produce, their story and methods.
This week there will be:

🌿 Fresh vegetables from Living Soil Garden
🥛 Amazing organic A2 dairy products from Hill and Coombe Dairy
🍝 Pizza, pesto, Lasagna, cake and much more by Pesto
🥬 Delicious organic Sauerkraut and other ferments by Rose Whitehouse
🥙 Homemade Vegan Deli by Crudelights
🧼 Homemade Natural Soap by Jo
☘ Fresh homemade Wild Garlic Pesto by Anna and Cliff
🌞 All supplemented by the beautiful views of Goffin Land!

We look forward to seeing you there and having a chat.

Hill and Coombe Dairy will be back on Friday with Organic raw milk, yogurt, cheese and grass-fed organic beef!

We are excited to announce that Goffin REKO Farmers Market is back THIS FRIDAY at 5pm! You can now buy local produce directly from our market garden.

The concept is very simple: you turn up in the garden, collect your vegetables (if you have ordered any), and a series of (very!) local producers will be there to offer their amazing products right in the middle of Living Soil Garden.

You can also have a look at the garden itself, ask us any gardening questions and enjoy the landscape while having a nice time in the open air!

REKO is an innovative style of farmers market that originally came from Finland. Its aim is to connect you to the best local producers, so that you can meet them and buy directly from them. This allows you to discover more about the food you eat, how it's produced and see where it comes from. By pre-ordering your produce you also reduce food waste and unnecessary packaging, and help local producers know what you value.

We hope to see you this Friday at 5pm on Goffin Land, where you will find some fantastic local produce, brought to you directly by the producers. And they will be excited to tell you everything you want to know about the produce, their story and methods.

This week there will be:

🌿 Freshly picked vegetables from Living Soil Garden

🥛 Amazing organic A2 dairy products from Hill and Coombe Dairy

🍝 Pizza, pesto, Lasagna, cake and much more by Pesto

🥬 Delicious organic Sauerkraut and other ferments by Red Earth Ferments

🥙 Homemade Vegan Deli by Crudelights

🧼 Homemade Natural Soap by Jo

☘ Fresh homemade Wild Garlic Pesto by Anna and Cliff

🌞 All supplemented by the beautiful views of Goffin Land!
Feel free to leave a comment below if you would like to pre-order! We look forward to seeing you there and having a chat.

Goffin REKO updated their website address.

Generally you do pruning when the trees are dormant (Jan/Feb) and grafting when the sap begins to rise (Mar/Apr). Then have a nice picnic when they come into blossom (May). This is some unconventional experimentation I'm doing in my garden. 🍏🌳 https://youtu.be/GBq2V-nkFpw

In-situ Grafting for Apple Fence Sorry about audio, usually I hold the camera, but needed both hands - guess I need a clip-on mic. Also I got in the way quite a bit of what I was trying to f...

100% PASTURE FED ORGANIC BEEF

We are now taking orders for our 100% Pasture-Fed & Organic Beef, available in 5Kg & 10kg boxes as well as individual cuts.

Our small beef herd is an off shoot from our dairy. We keep all of our bull calves who suckle their mothers alongside the heifers for the first 4 months. They are then given the freedom of the farm, left to lead a low -stress healthy life ranging our organic pastures and browsing the hedgerows, growing slowly over three years. We feel a great degree of pride in the quality of the meat and we are confident that it is extremely nutrient dense and delicious!

Follow the link here for further details

Beef Boxes - Organic & 100% Pasture Fed

Coming at this from several angles https://youtu.be/6qV6sTO0xVY

Cider making origins of certain Wassail traditions Practical agricultural origins of "raising a toast" and why you might "well-wish" an old or productive tree. What has all this got to do with soil fertility,...

Having finally got rid of the decorations, Crispin's ventured out into his own little patch of scrub to see what could use a chop. He's only got as far as the driveway. Any ideas on what to do with Ivy and Brambles? 🧑‍🌾 https://youtu.be/Xw3SWjlGnIQ

January Clear Out Early tidy around the driveway apple tree. Any thoughts on Ivy / Bramble control?Prev. Witch Hazel vid https://youtu.be/0ngvTfuCT7E

Last Friday's market of the year.
With Christmas just around the corner Cat & Ed will end the year with another display of their yummy Bliss Balls.
Join the Goffin Reko crew for one last amazing market together, with great people and healthy, natural, made with passion and love products.

Until next spring, Merry Christmas and a happy New Year 🎅🎅🎅🎄🎄🎄🎋🎋🎋🎁🎁🎁

Crispin's been sorting through his late varieties. Even on the gloomiest day (when he should be queuing for the last post), he can still be found rummaging through the tangly undergrowth for his Spotted Whites - "Look at them shine!" 🏆 https://youtu.be/QOkoXRXcv48

Spotted Whites = late cider apples of Exeter area "Spotted Whites" = several similar varieties: Sweet Coppin, White Alphington, Sweet Alford, White Close even one called Spotted Dick! Classic late season, pa...

Rose will be back for the last time this year with a range of seasonal Sauerkraut. There will be
🧅🥕Golden Kraut, with turmeric, Ginger, carrot, onion and garlic
💜 Beetroot and cumin Kraut (perfect with red meat and cheese)
💗 PInk Kraut with apple & Ginger

In the crock right now (ready for January) is a Eastern European inspired kraut with a twist. It has red & white organic cabbages, onion, apple, grapefruit juice and caraway.

Apologies - kimchi is out of stock this week. Rose will be transforming local Savoy's into kimchi this week with Dario Cortese & Flavia Bigiarini's Mooli from Living Soil Garden. This will be ready in the New Year.

Please get in touch if you want delivery in Exeter in between January and when the REKO opens up again in Spring. Rose will be moving her production to a little kitchen unit in Exeter in January so she is happy to contimue to supply you over the winter period. Please get in by emailing Rose Whitehouse at: [email protected] or dropping her a DM.

Finally, Rose would like to thank all her regular customers at the Goffin REKO for their support and encouragement over the year. Thank you to John for initiating this market and letting us use the space and for Dario and Flavia for all their work setting up the markets each week. See you in Sping. Happy Solstice and New Year!

Hello folks! This Friday will be our last REKO market of 2021. Don't miss out on Living Soil Garden's last salad of the year, full of colour and flavour. There will also be Micro-greens, Leeks and much more!

Another Friday, another opportunity to taste some of the amazing sweets and savoury foods by Cat & Ed's Crudelights.
This week they are offering once again their selection of homemade Hummus and dips.

Classic hummus, red peppers hummus and rocket leaves dip.
Healthy and yummy.

At this time of year, Crispin waits, a little anxiously, for nature to perform it's magic and transform his pressed apples into something that will take the edge off. There are ways and means by which this may be encouraged, of course, and the traditional one, in these parts, is called a "Wassail!" Like the term "Cheers!" it is a well-wishing or thanksgiving toast, typically directed at the orchard, as in "Your Good Health!" 🌳🍏 The offering is usually Mulled Cider (warmed with spices) - sometimes with literal toast or cake. It chases away the bad spirits that may settle upon those whom the cold and the storms and the dark nights affect. 🌀👺

Ferments on offer this week:
💜 Beetroot & cumin kraut
💛Golden kraut (turmeric & Ginger)
💗Pink kraut with ginger
🥕 Limited number of Curtido
💚Lacto Fermented Green Tomatoes
🔥Vegan kimchi (sorry traditional sold out)
This Friday Rose is also bringing along a limited number of KIMCHI kits to go along with the usual krauts.
Kimchi kits come with her own recipe/instructions and some of the more tricky ingredients to find when making kimchi (all contained in a 1L clip-top jar to ferment in). All the ingredients are measured out, so all you need to do is add your own vegetables and ow the instructions for easy kimchi. These are being sold for £15 and come boxed up to gift.
In other news....if you want to learn to make your own ferments picked straight from the field, then book on to Rose's last workshop for this year on Sunday 12th at Shillingford Organics. The ferments you make will be ready for Christmas. You will be provided with soup and hot drinks as well as gas heaters/fire to keep you warm in the field kitchen. Only 2 places left...
Book through Shillingford using this link: https://shillingfordorganicsfarmschool.co.uk/for-adults-1/p/p0camkm3anvx2mj39f4t71nowbv2mk

This week at Goffin REKO, Living Soil Garden will a limited quantity of Synergy Salad, Micro-greens and Mooli Radishes. You can book them on their website at livingsoilgarden.co.uk/vegetables

The Mooli (Daikon) Radish is long white crunchy vegetable, similar in appearance to fresh horseradish but packs a lighter peppery punch similar to watercress. Unlike other radishes, it is as good cooked as it is raw!

It's the turn of Pesto ! There is this strange Italian pudding that sends everyone scrambling. It's called "Panna Cotta" that means "cooked dairy cream", and its names explains pretty much everything. The dairy cream gets boiled and a vegetarian jelly added to make it feel more like a creme caramel in density. It receives a topping of strawberries and raspberries to balance the taste. The Chef needs some convincing because she is always very tight on schedule.
Today we will also have Cannoli and Tiramisu.
See you soon!

This Friday at the Goffin Reko Caterina and Edoardo's CruDelights will offer a selection of their Bliss Balls, their raw chocolate brownie and carrot cake, homemade traditional "Farinata", homemade rocket dip sauce, classic hummus and a newly created roasted red peppers hummus.

All food is strictly plant- based made from a selection of organic and non- organic ingredients for a tasty and healthy eating experience

Crispin's latest bottled juice is "Pitmaston"

"Some might be attracted to this particular apple by its reputation as being everything the supermarkets hate, being small, yellow and spotty yet with a fantastic taste!

It makes for a good garden tree with its moderately vigorous and upright growth pattern and the small fruit being ideal for children. The flesh is crisp, beneath a thick yellow skin with a russet of dots. Flavour is intense, being a sweet, sharp and slightly nutty character and as the name suggests with the slightest hint of pineapple."

We are pretty much at the end of the apple season now. Pitmaston is one of the later small/hard apples and will probably be my last bottled juice from this year. Illustrated below are some Foxwhelps that are another of the "hang on for grim death" types = you don't get much juice from them, but they do have a kick. 🍎

This week at the Goffin REKO Rose will have some limitedstock of Golden Kraut again. It's been a while! Other flavours available will be a Beetroot & Cumin kraut, a Curtido (a Latin Amercian inspired Sauerkraut) and a Pink Kraut with Ginger, Carrot and Apple.

There will be a limited number of kimchi available, so please mention here on the post if you want one so she can reserve one aside for you. The kimchi was made using Living Soil's Chinese Leaf Cabbage and their own mooli.

In other news, Rose has been busy with workshops and would like to thank the Goffin customers for their support in attending these. She has really enjoyed engagaing with such inquistive minds and sharing the love of fermentation. Her last workshop for this year is going to be held at Shillingford Organics on the 12th December. Please get in touch with Rose if you want to make some ferments before Christmas!

Every Friday at 5pm on Goffin Land, Living Soil Garden customers collect their pre-ordered Veg Boxes and you can also find some extra produce on their stall!

See this Friday's event page here: https://fb.me/e/MRE8jrjB

Things are slowing down in the garden at this time of the season, but there is still Salad, Asian Greens, Fennel, lots of winter Squash, Leeks and more.

Even as we approach winter, the garden is almost entirely planted with crops or green manures; this prevents erosion and continues to convert sunlight into fertility, as well as storing carbon in the soil.

Dario and Flavia look forward to having a chat with you about their growing methods at REKO next week. If you want to learn more about No-Dig Gardening, you may check out LSG's courses at livingsoilgarden.co.uk/courses.

We look forward to seeing you this evening between 5 and 6pm at Goffin REKO.

🍬 Today you will find a new stall at the market, Caterina and Edoardo's CruDelights: they will bring their homemade Bliss Balls - tasty healthy sweets made from plant-based natural ingredients. The Bliss Balls are raw vegan, gluten and dairy free, with no added sugars and no artificial colours. And we can testify to their yumminess!

This week there will also be:
🌿 Freshly picked vegetables from Living Soil Garden
🥛 Amazing organic A2 dairy products from Hill and Coombe Dairy
🍲 Mouth-watering homemade Pesto, Lasagne, pasta sauces, Tiramisù and more from Pesto
🍾 Organic Apple Cider and Vinegar, made by Crispin of Exeter Apples from local apples and without the slightest shadow of an additive
🌞 All supplemented by the beautiful views of Goffin Land!

Feel free to leave a comment below if you would like to pre-order! We look forward to seeing you there and having a chat.

We look forward to seeing you this Friday between 5 and 6pm at Goffin REKO.

🍬 This week you will find a new stall at the market, Caterina and Edoardo's CruDelights: they will bring their homemade Bliss Balls - tasty healthy sweets made from plant-based natural ingredients. The Bliss Balls are raw vegan, gluten and dairy free, with no added sugars and no artificial colours. And we can testify to their yumminess!

This week there will also be:
🌿 Freshly picked vegetables from Living Soil Garden
🥛 Amazing organic A2 dairy products from Hill and Coombe Dairy
🍲 Mouth-watering homemade Pesto, Lasagne, pasta sauces, Tiramisù and more from Pesto
🍾 Organic Apple Cider and Vinegar, made by Crispin of Exeter Apples from local apples and without the slightest shadow of an additive
🌞 All supplemented by the beautiful views of Goffin Land!

Feel free to leave a comment below if you would like to pre-order! We look forward to seeing you there and having a chat.

Pizza and REKO Friday 10th Sept 5pm to 6.30pm approx

Hello REKO Goers

Iona & Al will be at the Friday REKO offering high quality 12" pizzas whole or slices. Mostly organic ingredients. They will be cooked on a rocket powered wood oven outside Clover Barn. Eat here or boxed to take home.

In the spirit of nurturing the evolving non corporate "community" that sees a very different world is possible, prices will be measured by donations.

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Aloha ......... John

Goffin REKO updated their business hours.

Tomorrow at 5pm, Crispin will be pressing some very early Discovery apples (courtesy of Alan). Don't miss out on the opportunity to taste freshly pressed apple juice! Tomorrow at 5pm, on Goffin Land.

There will also be freshly picked veg from Living Soil Garden , raw milk by Hill Coombe Dairy and sauerkraut and kimchi by Red Earth Ferments!

Saturday evening, Sunday and Monday, on Goffin Land, the Common Players will be performing The Tuck Inn.

Anthony Richards, founder and director of Common Players and the creator of The Tuck Inn says:
"Our professional family-friendly performance, with live music, vivid action and playful puppets creates an immersive experience of fun and feasting with a band of outlaws in the greenwood – all in the comfort of a field."

Get your tickets at:

https://www.common-players.org.uk/?fbclid=IwAR2ME3llsuIyChw3gH1_wOXTctrDUsuc89OZ0-GqubAqIsmVdZu7hktZGWM

Home | common-players We’re very excited to be making theatre again, going back to our roots which were set over 30 years ago, touring to community locations around Devon.