"Cardoons are a perennial crop they keep coming back every year, says Guy Singh-Watson, as his dog, Artichoke, roots around for voles among the tall thistle-like plants. They would be a dream crop if only people liked eating them. Cardoons, which Singh-Watson learned to love while snowed in on a Sicilian mountain, are not your typical vegetable. But then the Riverford veg box founder is not your typical farmer, despite still living only a few miles from the farm where he was born."
"But then the Riverford veg box founder is not your typical farmer, despite still living only a few miles from the farm where he was born. Unlike most farmers, Singh-Watson says we need to eat less meat, that large-scale farmers should pay inheritance tax and that Brexit has been a complete and utter fuck-up. He has opposed foxhunting, banned the badger cull from his land and supported the climate protesters of Extinction Rebellion. He once even voted for Jeremy Corbyn."
Cardoons are cultivated at Riverford as a perennial crop despite limited popular appetite, and were prized after a Sicilian experience. Guy Singh-Watson founded Riverford veg box and continues to live near his birth farm. He advocates eating less meat, inheritance tax for large-scale farmers, and criticises Brexit. He opposed foxhunting, banned the badger cull on his land, and supported Extinction Rebellion. Riverford became employee-owned, achieved a £113m turnover in 2023–24 with £5.7m profit, and earned him two BBC farmer-of-the-year awards. His parents arrived from colonial families in 1951 and emphasised good food; he has a recent formal autism diagnosis.
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