Our farm
Mill Lane Farm has been in the Ozola family since 1987. We have made every fashionable mistake once, concluded that our grandmother was mostly right, and adjusted.
How we grow
Soil first. Everything else follows.
- Compost, not chemistry. Two turning windrows, a worm hut worth arguing about, and 42 acres fed by what the farm makes.
- Rotations with rest. Every bed spends one year in clover-rye grass before it grows food again.
- Heirloom seed. Saved and swapped for 20 years — flavour varieties you can't buy as sad supermarket substitutes.
- Polytunnel patience. Unheated tunnels: our tomatoes taste of summer because they have to wait for it.
- Hedgerows & habitat. 1.2 km replanted; the barn owls returned in 2019 and run the vole department.
The people (and hens)
Ilze Ozola
Head grower · second generationKnows every bed by name and most of them by mood.
Kaspars Ozols
Fields, beasts & the tractor called DotBuilt the cider press from an washing machine and optimism.
Līga Ozola
Market, boxes & preservesRuns the Saturday barn and the jam kettle with equal ferocity.
400 hens, 12 cows, 3 pigs with opinions, and a barn cat named Foreman who attends all staff meetings.