This September the Soil Association (those clever lot who certify our stuff as organic) are celebrating the best of organic with the imaginatively called Organic September.

We quite like organic, too (you may have already noticed that, though).  Since we also love celebrating things, we thought we’d join in the fun.  And you are cordially invited, too.

A bit like a communal garden, we thought you’d like to contribute to a mega-mass-contributor-blog.  If you’d like to join in, just email us a paragraph or two on why you choose organic.  Send your words to megablog@abelandcole.co.uk.

To start us off is Dave Govier (the Devonshire wonder-farmer who grows the spinach and chard in boxes at the moment).  He rang up yesterday for a chat. 

“We went organic over twenty years ago now.  We just wanted to work in harmony with the soil, really, and I think it goes back generations. My granddad always said when you see everyone running in one direction, run the other way.  I always knew I wanted to work in a good way with the land and harmonise with it rather than force things to grow and force things not to with chemicals.”

He’s a lovely man, is Dave.  His dad Bernard is the chap who sat on a bag of potatoes all those years ago and persuaded Keith to go organic, so it’s quite fitting that Dave is the one to start us off on our declarations of organic love.