Just a reminder that the registration deadline for the Great American Haygrove Tour is July 13.
Call or email with questions and to get registered! It's sure to be an educational, hands-on, information-gathering trip!
Monday, July 2, 2012
Monday, May 7, 2012
Haygrove in the News
Haygrove is utilizing alternative energy in Britain and has installed 156 roof-top solar panels on two buildings... Read how Haygrove harvests solar energy.
Current Haygrove Projects and Initiatives
Gambia is Good
Gambia is Good, (GiG) is a cross-sector partnership between international development organisation, Concern Universal and Haygrove. The project is a social enterprise, enabling farmers in the Gambia to access the lucrative markets within the country's tourism industry, alongside researching and demonstrating innovative approaches that create new markets for Gambian farmers.
In 2008, Haygrove was proud to be one of the ten winners of the 2008 World Business and Development Awards (WBDA) for their part in creating Gambia is Good, in partnership with Concern Universal and DFID's Business Linkage Challenge Fund. This honor is awarded by the International Chamber of Commerce and supported by the United Nations. Haygrove traveled to the UN buildings for the ceremony but the award is only given to 10 businesses worldwide every other year. Learn more about the program and honor here.
Bright Futures
Growing future farmers with a sustainable enterprise based development program. Bright Futures is a progressive and earned upliftment program, starting in January 2008 and run from Haygrove Heaven in South Africa. It is targeted at local farm workers from previously disadvantaged communities and has a structured ladder of opportunity and incentives that at the highest level will achieve individual business partnership with Haygrove Heaven (Pty) Ltd. Click here to see the key principles of the program.
Seven members of the Bright Futures group made a presentation to the Haygrove sales team November 2010 when we met in Cape Town, South Africa. They each gave a testimonial as to how the opportunity affected their lives. Then they sang a song they wrote thanking Haygrove for the opportunity to improve their lives and those of their families — there wasn’t a dry eye in the house. One young lady who said she grew up dreaming of one day riding in a car now has a drivers license and a passport that she will hopefully get to use one day. Read more about the Bright Futures project here.
Gambia is Good, (GiG) is a cross-sector partnership between international development organisation, Concern Universal and Haygrove. The project is a social enterprise, enabling farmers in the Gambia to access the lucrative markets within the country's tourism industry, alongside researching and demonstrating innovative approaches that create new markets for Gambian farmers.
In 2008, Haygrove was proud to be one of the ten winners of the 2008 World Business and Development Awards (WBDA) for their part in creating Gambia is Good, in partnership with Concern Universal and DFID's Business Linkage Challenge Fund. This honor is awarded by the International Chamber of Commerce and supported by the United Nations. Haygrove traveled to the UN buildings for the ceremony but the award is only given to 10 businesses worldwide every other year. Learn more about the program and honor here.
Bright Futures
Growing future farmers with a sustainable enterprise based development program. Bright Futures is a progressive and earned upliftment program, starting in January 2008 and run from Haygrove Heaven in South Africa. It is targeted at local farm workers from previously disadvantaged communities and has a structured ladder of opportunity and incentives that at the highest level will achieve individual business partnership with Haygrove Heaven (Pty) Ltd. Click here to see the key principles of the program.
Seven members of the Bright Futures group made a presentation to the Haygrove sales team November 2010 when we met in Cape Town, South Africa. They each gave a testimonial as to how the opportunity affected their lives. Then they sang a song they wrote thanking Haygrove for the opportunity to improve their lives and those of their families — there wasn’t a dry eye in the house. One young lady who said she grew up dreaming of one day riding in a car now has a drivers license and a passport that she will hopefully get to use one day. Read more about the Bright Futures project here.
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Tour Registration Deadline
Sign up today — tour registration deadline is July 13 and capacity is limited!
Call 717-492-4955, or email kfouse@haygrove.com to register now!
*Note — International airfare rates tend to increase as the departure date approaches, so it is best to book your travel in advance.
Call 717-492-4955, or email kfouse@haygrove.com to register now!
*Note — International airfare rates tend to increase as the departure date approaches, so it is best to book your travel in advance.
Tuesday, March 6, 2012
Tour Schedule
Tour price $1,900 USD per person
Tour package includes seven nights lodging, seven breakfasts, five
lunches, two dinners, tour transportation, transportation from and back to airport hotel.
Tour Itinerary — September 1-7, 2012
Day 1 —
Saturday, September 1
Lodging
provided at hotel near Heathrow Airport (hotel to be determined)
Day 2 — Sunday, September 2
- Hosted breakfast
at hotel
- 9:00
a.m. — Meet in lobby, visit Windsor Castle (admission included)
- Lunch
on your own
- Depart
Windsor Castle, drive to the Royal
Hotel, Ross on Wye and Herefordshire
- Haygrove
welcome reception at Royal Hotel
- Dinner on your own in Ross on Wye
Day 3 — Monday,
September 3
- Hosted breakfast
at hotel
- 8:30
a.m. – Meet in lobby, travel to Haygrove, Ledbury, the main organic site for the
business. Crops grown include strawberries, blackberries, raspberries,
cherries
and blueberries. There will be a tunnel skinning demonstration and the
full
range of Haygrove substrate systems and tunnels will be on show.
- 11.30
a.m. — Tour of Haygrove pack house
- 12:30
p.m. – Hosted packed lunch
- 1:30
p.m. – Visit Haygrove's Riverside
Farm,
the largest of Haygrove’s glasshouse production; full display of
Haygrove’s
double/triple Substrate Systems
- 4:00
p.m. — Depart to the Royal Hotel
- Dinner
on your own in Ross on Wye
Day 4 —
Tuesday, September 4
- Hosted breakfast
at hotel
- 8:30
a.m. – Meet in lobby, depart to visit Anthony Snell,
Pencoyd Court Farm Farm, Herefordshire - tunneled strawberries
and raspberries in soil and substrate.
We will also tour the pack house and retail farm shop.
- 12:30
p.m. – Hosted packed lunch
- 1:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. — Classroom presentations at the Royal Hotel
- Graham Moore — Tunneled asparagus and raspberries in substrate.
- Tim Sobey — Blueberries and blackberries in tunnels and under shade.
- Rolly Whatton — Tunnel Cost vs. Tunnel Strength; Wind management from an engineer's perspective.
- John Berry — How tunnels are revolutionizing
horticulture around the world — and in the U.S.A. Subjects include:
hoop
bending, tunnel skinning,
tunnel management and benefits of tunnels.
- 7:30
p.m. – Haygrove team will host
dinner at the Royal Hotel
Day 5 —
Wednesday, September 5
- Hosted breakfast
at hotel
- 9:00
a.m. — Part 2 of Classroom Presentations, plus on-farm tunnel
construction and skinning demonstrations.
- 12:00 p.m. – Hosted packed lunch
- 12:30
p.m. — Visit Steven and Steven and David McGuffie, New Farm Produce, Staffordshire
–
tunneled asparagus,
raspberries and strawberries. Retail farm shop.
- 4:30
p.m. — Steven and David will host a BBQ at their farm
- 7:30
p.m. – Depart McGuffie Farm for the Royal Hotel
Day 6 —
Thursday, September 6
- Hosted breakfast
at hotel
- 8:00
a.m. – Meet in lobby, visit Sandy Booth, New Forest Fruit Farm, Hampshire
– tunneled substrate strawberries, glasshouse production and nursery
propagation.
- 1:30
p.m. – Pub lunch
- 2:30
p.m. – Visit Richard and Vern Emery, Littlebrook Nursery, Hampshire – tunneled
strawberry production with
their own design of substrate blocks/production
- 4:30
p.m. — Depart for local hotel in Hampshire
- Dinner
on your own
Day 7 — Friday,
September 7
- Hosted breakfast
at hotel
- 8:30
a.m. – Meet in lobby, visit Neil Cairns, Barfoots of Botley,
Hampshire — tunneled
beans and asparagus, field grown sweet corn and rhubarb
- 2:00
p.m. — Pub lunch
- Depart
for airport hotel (lodging/breakfast included)
Monday, February 13, 2012
Introducing Haygrove Tour in Britain
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