John Cherry
Farm manager
Farming at Weston for more than 35 years; dropped cultivations for no till in 2010 after meeting no till growers in America, and co founded the Groundswell Regenerative Agriculture Festival.
Irongate Farm
Regenerative pasture beef, no dig vegetables and honeyHitchin, Hertfordshire
Irongate Farm at Weston near Hitchin, Hertfordshire is a regenerative mixed farm with a Pasture for Life certified mob grazed beef herd, a no dig market garden and its own honey.
Irongate Farm, also known as Weston Park Farms, is the Cherry family's 500 hectare regenerative mixed farm at Weston near Hitchin in Hertfordshire, and the home of the Groundswell Regenerative Agriculture Festival.
The family have farmed here for more than 35 years. After a 2010 trip to meet no till growers in America, farm manager John Cherry dropped cultivations altogether, and the farm has since moved from a heavy tillage arable system to a regenerative one: minimum tillage, herbal leys, cover crops, no insecticides, no artificial fertilisers and no routine antibiotics. An organic conversion is now under way.
Around 300 native cross suckler cows graze roughly 200 hectares of permanent pasture, parkland and rotational leys, mob grazed and Pasture for Life certified, alongside heritage grains, wheat, barley, oats, beans and linseed. A small no dig market garden on the farm grows chemical free seasonal vegetables sold through the farm's own veg scheme, through Lannock Larder and at local markets, and Pure Herts Honey from the farm's hives is sold at Lannock Larder too.
What they sell
- Grass fed beef
- Seasonal vegetables
- Weston honey
Plan your visit
- You can visit in person
- No delivery
Meet the farm team
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29 July 2023
Yf.
25 March 2020
Lovely fresh eggs.
