The Farmers Mart Feb/Mar 2014 - Issue 32 | Page 32

CARR HOUSE FARM

Organic
success in East
Yorkshire
Chris Berry talks with Tim & Caroline
Sellers at Foston-on-the-Wolds.
When conventional grain
prices were on their knees if not quite on the floor - Tim
and Caroline Sellers found
that the premiums available
for growing organic crops
were attractive. Since 1999
their 480-acre Carr House
Farm at Foston-on-theWolds has been devoted to
this niche market and the
couple have not looked back
since.
“The decision we made
to convert to organic has
worked for this farm and, as
a consequence, all sorts of

opportunities have evolved
along the way,’ says Tim.
“We set up what has become
well-known as Side Oven
Bakery 10 years ago and that
has, in turn, attracted other
branches of business for us.
“We also set up a juicer
to process apples to make
juice.