Red Earth Organics

Patrick Lynn set up Red Earth Organics to provide great, locally produced Organic produce readily available to the people of Nottinghamshire - the county where he was born and raised.

Red Earth Organics is based at Hockerwood Park, Patrick's family's farm. Situated outside the historic town of Southwell, the farm itself is full of history, having first appeared in the Domesday Book nearly a thousand years ago. Through the middle ages the land was used as a deer park to entertain the Archbishop of York's hunting trips before being turned over to agriculture a few hundred years ago.

In 1930 the farm was taken over by the Lynn family and bought from the Church of England. It is on these ancient soils that Patrick is converting part of the farm into Organic Vegetable production - produce that will soon be making itself seen in the Red Earth Organics vegetable boxes.

Before returning to the family farm, Patrick worked for several years in agricultural development in Indonesia. Based on the island of Java, he worked with Organic farmers helping them find marketing channels for their Organic rice to improve their livelihoods. In doing this he found how Organic farming in the third world had as many benefits to the people and environment there as it did in the UK.

It was this experience that brought Patrick back to the UK determined not only to start farming organically in the UK but to use a portion of this business's profits to help the promotion of Organic farming in the third world.

Red Earth Organics are committed to the integrity of the Organic food movement and have therefore been certified by the Soil Association to pack Organic produce. The land in conversion is also being monitored by the Soil Association.