Market Gardening and Farming

General

• A Short History of Commercial Horticulture in the Vale of Evesham
• Data on the start of Horticulture in the Vale of Evesham
• Did your Grandad keep a pig? – mine did
• Early Days of Market Gardening
• Fruit Canning at Blackminster – a short-lived enterprise, 1926-1936
• Growing up in a market gardening family in the 1920s and 1930s - Bayliss
• Letters from Badsey schoolchildren describing life in a market gardening community, 1933
• Littleton & Badsey Growers, 1908-2001
• Littleton & Badsey Growers – interview with Charles Binyon, 1957
• Market Garden Hovel Survey - Perforated Bricks
• Ministry of Agriculture Advice to Farmers and Growers
• Plum and Apple Varieties Grown at the beginning of the 20th century
• Rider Haggard’s Agricultural Survey of the Vale of Evesham
• Ron Sidwell’s Plum Stone Collection
• The Evesham Custom
• The Last Market Gardener Project - Heritage Lottery Fund
• The origins of asparagus growing in the Evesham area
• The 'Trusty' Tractor
• Land Use in Worcestershire, 1825-1940

Badsey and Aldington

• Badsey Pig Club, 1902-1953
• Hop-growing at Aldington, 1870s-1901
• Market Gardening 1878-1923 – James Hall, a Badsey Grower
• Market Gardening about 1920 - James Barnard
• William George Pethard – Fruit grower and commission agent of Badsey

Wickhamford

• Asparagus growing in Wickhamford
• National Farm Survey - Wickhamford Growers assessed as having Poor Management
• Photographic Record of the Martin family, market gardeners, of Pitchers Hill
• Wickhamford - Farm students in 1911
• Wickhamford - Fruit stalls on Pitchers Hill
• Wickhamford - Pearce Family Nursery
• Wickhamford Farming and Land Ownership
• Wickhamford Hop Growing: a short-lived enterprise
• Wickhamford Market Garden Irrigation System
• Wickhamford Market Gardening 1945 - aerial view