Grower and packer Vitacress Salads has won an industry award for the innovative organic farming methods it developed to produce baby salad leaves for M& S and Sainsbury.
Vitacress scooped The Worshipful Company of Fruiterers’ Environmental Award for Production.
The company, based at St Mary Bourne in Hampshire, was recognised for its use of recycled garden green waste as an organic mulch to suppress weeds and act as a soil conditioner.
Group agronomist Keston Williams said: “This mulch now seems such an obvious solution that it is surprising it is not used by the rest of the industry.”
East Malling Research also won an award at the event, sponsored by Waitrose.
Vitacress scooped The Worshipful Company of Fruiterers’ Environmental Award for Production.
The company, based at St Mary Bourne in Hampshire, was recognised for its use of recycled garden green waste as an organic mulch to suppress weeds and act as a soil conditioner.
Group agronomist Keston Williams said: “This mulch now seems such an obvious solution that it is surprising it is not used by the rest of the industry.”
East Malling Research also won an award at the event, sponsored by Waitrose.
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