Where to collect your free seed potatoes

We are pleased to let you know where you can pick up your free seed potatoes for the coming growing season. Details of the varieties we have will be on our website oneseedforward.co.uk in the next few days. We hope to have a selection…

Time to tell you about a new variety that we are giving away this year. Red Emmalie is an early maincrop oval tuber, with red skin and red flesh. It is ideal for mashing and boiling and will retain its colour, making a great…

Today’s seed potato we have for you is another favourite from last year, Lady Balfour. This is an early maincrop oval tuber, with cream skin and pale yellow flesh, and was a good cropper last season. It is named after Eve Balfour who inspired…

We are excited to be giving away this speciality heritage potato this year – Violetta. It has purple skin with purple flesh and is an early maincrop variety. Boil, mash or bake, these oval tubers will retain their colour if cooked with the skins…

Cara was one of our popular varieties last season and we are happy to provide it again this year. A maincrop potato, it is round with a white and pink skin and floury white flesh, making it ideal for baking, boiling or chips. OSF…

Our next variety that we are giving away this season is a new one to our project, but an old well known favourite. A heritage potato from 1942, Red Duke of York is an early variety that is a great all rounder for cooking….

Time to tell you about the potatoes we are giving away this year. Let’s start with Maris Bard, a first early variety with creamy skin and white flesh. These grew well last year and will be our main seed potato for schools as it…

Our seed potatoes are ordered!

We are now starting to plan our community growing programme for the coming season, and have ordered our seed potatoes for an early February delivery to ourselves. At this time we are prioritising school groups and community based projects. So, if you are a…

We’re getting ready for 2018!

We are starting to plan our community growing programme for next year, and soon we will be ordering our seed potatoes for an early February delivery. This year we are going to be doing things slightly differently though. We are prioritising school groups and…

We had a lot of fun being on the SHMU radio yesterday talking about our projects. Give it a listen – though we got cut off before Motörhead came on! And get in touch with us if you are a school or community group…