Green Broom Farm has been hidden in the woods of the Hardwicke Estate, at Crays Pond near Reading, since 2015. It is a low impact vegetable and fruit farm which has nine members. It is also a co-operative community with a shared communal barn and workshops on basketry, natural dyes and permaculture, to name but a few!
On arriving, there is the farm shop (run on honesty) selling rare and heritage vegetables such as ‘Crystal Lemon’ cucumbers and cut flowers. I follow the track through the woods until I stop under the hand-painted wooden sign and survey the patchwork
