A poem and film written and created by Riverford co-owners is to form the centrepiece of the company’s 2020 brand campaign and first-ever TV on-demand adverts.
Based around the company’s history and values and set on the farm, the poem, entitled ‘A Walk Through Our Fields’, was written by Riverford co-owner Ellen Warrell.
It was then produced as a short film directed by video producer Christian Kay, who held auditions and built a cast of co-owners from across the Riverford business.
Released today (Monday 27 Jan), it will form the centre of Riverford’s upcoming...
Organic veg box company Riverford has won Rising Star of the Year Award at a national awards ceremony recognising excellence among employee owned businesses.
Judges at the Employee Ownership Association Awards praised the new culture of co-ownership across the Riverford business, which they said had helped it secure the win, and a successful first year under the new ownership model.
“The award celebrates a business that already, in its early life, has an effective employee ownership culture where its commitment to engaging its workforce is driving a strong financial...
Pull on your wellies and join in at the farm for a family friendly pumpkin celebration
Organic veg box company Riverford has turned its legendary Pumpkin Day event plastic-free for the first time to reduce its impact on the environment as much as possible.
The annual family fun event will take place on 26 October at Riverford’s Wash Farm, Buckfastleigh, near Totnes.
Visitors can enjoy a range of activities, including pumpkin decorating, face painting, seed potting, live music and tasty food, as well as the chance for a farm walk.
A true revolutionary veg nerd, Guy Singh-Watson has spent the last 30 years taking Riverford from one man and a wheelbarrow delivering homegrown organic veg to friends, to a national veg box scheme making 50,000 deliveries a week.
On Sunday 1st July, he’ll be talking about the remarkable story behind Riverford and his life in organic food and farming with presenter Kirsty Young on BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs. Guy decided to sell direct to customers through the now iconic Riverford veg box after being poorly treated by unscrupulous supermarket buyers and wholesalers in the...
Join us at our Master Veg class to get to grips with the green stuff and find out about life with a veg box.
This is a two hour hands-on cooking course, followed by a meal where you'll will enjoy the food you have chopped and prepared. The vegetables cooked during the course of the class will be a selection of the best of the seasonal produce grown on Riverford’s organic farms. Spaces cost £25 per person.
What we'll be cooking (subject to seasonal availability):
If a spot of quirky fun is what you and your kids need this Hallowe'en, then get wellied-up and head for Riverford near Totnes.
Their Pumpkin Day is legendary and with good reason; it’s full of busy fun, tasty food and a good dose of fresh air…and it’s free entry!
Children’s activities include apple pressing, worm digging, pumpkin carving, face painting and vegetable games. When that all gets too much, they can settle down to paint spooky pictures in the creativity area or take a tractor ride around the farm to see where the team grow the veg for the farm’s vegboxes....
If a spot of quirky fun is what you and your kids need this Halloween, then get wellied up and head for Riverford near Totnes. Their Pumpkin Day is legendary and with good reason; it’s full of busy fun, tasty food and a good dose of fresh air…and it’s free entry! Children’s activities include apple pressing, worm digging, pumpkin carving, face painting and vegetable games. When that all gets too much, they can settle down to paint spooky pictures in the creativity area or take a tractor ride around the farm to see where the team grow the veg for the farm’s vegboxes. “Our Pumpkin Day is a...
Staff at national organic home delivery company Riverford are celebrating following a huge win at the 27th Soil Association Organic Food Awards. “Everything we grow and sell at Riverford is selected for flavour, and winning so many awards in a blind tasting reassures us that we’re hitting the mark,” said Riverford’s founding farmer and current BBC Farmer of the Year, Guy Watson.
Riverford started as a vegbox business but has been busy extending its food range to include picnic goodies, desserts and a creative new range of soups. “Enjoying and sharing good food is at the heart of...
Farmers and villagers stranded on the Somerset Levels are eating a little better this week, thanks to food aid delivered in the form of organic vegboxes from Riverford.
The villages of Muchelney and Thorney have been cut off by floods for almost nine weeks, with water over a metre deep in places.
It’s too much for the Riverford vans to cope with, but thanks to a Unimog operated by Suffolk Fire & Rescue, regular deliveries of organic fruit and vegboxes are making it through.
Riverford’s founding farmer, Guy Watson says:P “The belief that good food should be...
