The BIMI team at Barfoots is headed up by farming manager Neil Carins who was once told they’d never be able to grow BIMI in the UK, so Neil and Jon, the Commercial Director at Barfoots set out to prove everybody wrong.
In fact, Hampshire and West Sussex, two Barfoots farm locations, are actually some of the best locations in Europe for growing BIMI due to the maritime climate which results in milder springs and less frosts. The south coast allows Barfoots to grow other exotic crops such as sweetcorn and chillies alongside BIMI and the team have loved being able to prove the people wrong by producing vast amounts of great quality crops.
The BIMI farming season begins for Barfoots in early March and planting carries on until early August with harvesting taking place weekly from June until the end of November. Jon confides that the on-shelf quality during this period is excellent and the best yields come through in September, just in time to provide super brain food for when the kids go back to school.
