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Congratulations Jack!
Huge congratulations to Jack Scott for winning the BBC Countryfile Young Countryside Champion 2023 award. We are so pleased and proud that Jack has been rightly recognised for the growing of his vegetables sustainably, as well as working with local veg box schemes, markets and supplying local restaurants who care about where and how thei... Read More
Environmental Champion of the Year
The whole NFL team attended the prestigious Farmers Weekly Awards in London last week, and what a night it was! Alongside 1200 other people from the farming community up and down the country, we feasted on British produce at Grosvenor House, before the Awards ceremony kicked off. Nonington Farms were absolutely delighted to be crowned Environmental... Read More
Farmers Weekly Awards 2023 - Environmental Champion Finalist
We recently shared that we are one of the Environmental Champion finalists for the Farmers Weekly Awards 2023. If you have been following our journey, you will know that farming sustainably and alongside nature is a key focus of our farming strategy and so to be a finalist for this award is a really proud moment for Nonington Farms. Here ... Read More
August Update on the Farm
AUGUSTFirstly we would like to say a huge well done to Jack Scott for being nominated and shortlisted for the BBC Food and Farming Awards in the Young Countryside Champion category. Jack came on one of our Farm Walks last summer and discussed his plans to expand his fledgling vegetable business with us. We offered him some land on the farm, and the... Read More
Farmers Weekly Awards 2023 Finalist!
We are really thrilled to have been shortlisted for the prestigious Farmers Weekly Awards 2023. Huge congratulations to all the other finalists too! ... Read More
National Arable & Grassland Awards 2023 - Cereal Grower of the Year!
Cereal Grower of the Year 2023We are so thrilled to win the Cereal Grower of the Year Award at the National Arable & Grassland Awards 2023 and excited to continue on our regenerative farming journey! Well done team!... Read More
British Farming Awards 2022
We are extremely thrilled to share that we have been shortlisted in the 'Arable Farmer of the Year' category at the British Farming Awards 2022, flying the flag for sustainable food production and practices in UK agriculture.We are very proud of our farm, and our farming way of life which, at its heart, is the environment. We feel very keen... Read More
Success at YEN Awards for wheat
Nonington Farms achieved success at the national YEN Awards for crops grown in 2020 (awarded in 2021), winning first prize in the regional feed wheat section, and gaining third prize overall in the national milling wheat competition. The judges commended Nonington Farms for their innovative farming methods, noting particularly their ability to red... Read More
Winner of LEAF-Bayer Farming Primary aged Partnership Awards
We only went and won it! Delighted to say that we are now the proud winners of the LEAF-Bayer Farming Primary Partnership award!This award "celebrates a farm that has built and continues to build a successful relationship with primary schools (5-11 year olds) and makes a valuable and sustained contribution to school life, both on and away from... Read More
Autumn drilling update
Tractor sowing seedsThe oil seed rape went in to the ground relatively easily and on time, this year. The dry conditions made things fairly straightforward, although the flea beetle seem to have had other ideas.The dry weather, however, continued, so we started drilling winter wheat and barley later than usual and only when there was a chance of so... Read More