Organic Vegetables
Pollybell are proud to produce broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, leeks and celeriac for markets both locally and throughout the UK. All vegetables are grown in rotation with clover leys and arable crops to ensure the use of natural soil fertility to grow.
They are all packed on the farm and delivered straight to the customer to ensure excellent quality and shelf life whilst remaining consistent to the business believe of reducing food miles.
Organic Grain
We grow wheat and barley for milling and livestock feed. We choose varieties that are suited to our land and with good disease tolerance.
Renewable Energy
Pollybell are always looking for ways to tread lighter and reduce our environmental impact. We produce from renewables as much energy as we consume (though not always at the right time and right place – something we are working on).
Our flagship project is a floating solar farm on our irrigation reservoir to produce the electricity we use to run our packing facility, cold stores and farm irrigation. It was our belief that we should not take land out of food production to generate energy hence why we embarked on building it on water. This proved beneficial in many ways including the improved operational efficiency of the panels and reducing erosion of our reservoir banks.
The wind turbine compliments the solar panels as it takes over as our primary supply in the autumn/winter when the days gets shorter and the weather gets windier.
