News and Updates | The Garlic Farm Isle of Wight

Our King’s Award for Enterprise

The Garlic Farm is proud to be one of four Isle of Wight businesses to receive the prestigious King’s Award for Enterprise in 2025. This honour is a testament to the dedication of the team and feels especially meaningful in light of His Majesty King Charles III’s advocacy for environmental stewardship, organic agriculture, and soil health - concepts that have guided our mission over the last few years.

Impact Report Year End 30th June 2025

The Garlic Farm’s Impact Report summarises our progress and commitments to sustainability through efficient resource use and respect for people and the environment. This year’s impact report shows that overall, The Garlic Farm continues to deliver social and environmental value while maintaining financial resilience.

Welcome to Our Wetland

The WETland system is a series of long shallow pools along the contours of the land, which treats waste water from the farm. It is planted with a diverse mix of specific plant species that take up the nutrients in the waste water and via photosynthesis convert them into biomass.

Impact Report Year End 30th June 2024

Since we began our B Corp journey over five years ago, we have been diligently measuring our impact across every area of the business.

Celebrating our B Corp birthday

Today, 23rd August 2024, marks our first B Corp birthday! One year ago today we achieved B Corp Certification, demonstrating high standards of social and environmental performance and joining a community of like-minded organisations using business as a force for good.

Introducing Our Innovative Wormery: Transforming Food Waste into 'Black Gold'

Thanks to the generosity of our Island neighbours, we are experimenting with a wormery. The hope is to use the 'worm castings' generated by the worms in this specialist device to create a nutrient-rich, natural fertiliser for our fields. Worms are the engineers of the soil, they do incredible things, it's great to have them on the garlic team!

Learning about certified organic seed garlic in the Drôme

Our recent visit to the Drôme region of France confirmed that the garlic heritage and expertise in this region is exceptional. Three certified organic growers that we work with in the area where the Rhône and the Drôme rivers meet have more than 50 years of specialist garlic growing between them. Read about the techniques and practices these organic garlic growers employ to product high quality seed.

Biosphere Reserve, B Corp & ConnectedWight…

What do these three entities have to do with each other? How do these things relate to The Garlic Farm? And what is behind the idea of being naturally connected…?

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How to save the world together? A supplier event at The Garlic Farm

Measuring and understanding social and environmental impact is a big task. The B Corp model helps with this, it is a map as well as an audit. By considering people and planet alongside prosperity, companies that follow B Corp certification are changing business, for good. This, our second supplier event, was a chance to engage with our collaborators and share ideas. It was really good!