New Crops & Products
August 23 2022
One of the most enjoyable parts of my work is looking for new crops that can add value and diversity to the food supply chain, and over the past few…
August 23 2022
One of the most enjoyable parts of my work is looking for new crops that can add value and diversity to the food supply chain, and over the past few…
May 04 2022
On the 4th May 2022 it was exactly 10 years since I formally registered The British Quinoa Company Ltd with Companies House - so Happy Birthday to us! Not quite…
March 02 2021
Last summer, I got to film with ethnobotanist James Wong for BBC ‘Follow the Food’, where we explored how quinoa can contribute to global food security.
January 04 2021
Where do we even start, 2020? What a year it’s been for us all. I think it’s safe to say we’re are hoping that 2021 brings a little more joy for one and all.
We wanted to write this blog post to sum up, our 2020 here…
November 12 2020
In my last blog post, I shard the progress of our 2020 quinoa crops during the remarkably dry Spring. Some time has since passed, and we thought now would be a good idea to share how our crops have…
May 13 2020
What a glorious April we’ve had? With the UK in lockdown, the sun decided to show itself at just the right time. It also happened to be great timing for us in the farming world too. After a very wet Autumn and Winter, we definitely needed a…
April 03 2020
Well, where do we begin with this post? It’s safe to say it’s a pretty strange one, as is the situation we find ourselves in, in the particular moment in time.
Coronavirus
Coronavirus has taken the…
February 04 2020
Rain, rain, will it ever go away? This is something we can all but hope for come spring this year, so we can plant our 2020 crops.
It’s safe to say autumn 2019 and early winter has been one of the wettest on record. We were…
December 05 2019
We’ve had a busy few weeks moving into our new office! It’s been a long process, but it’s safe to say we are all happy campers in the new and somewhat improved home of The British Quinoa Company!
For our new office, we…
April 19 2019
We hope you caught us appearing on BBC Supermarket Secrets on the 17th April! We were joined by…
March 01 2017
After developing quinoa as a UK grown crop, we’re often asked, “what other alternative crops can you grow here in Britain?”, or “can you grow…..”
February 10 2017
Wow, what a double whammy! Marks and Spencer is regarded as being one of the highest quality food retailers, so we were delighted to get the chance to supply two of their new product lines. We’ve had this secret…