Amal-Grow Ltd.

Amal-Grow Ltd is based in St John and has been supplying local supermarkets, wholesalers and other retail outlets for nearly 30 years. In the last decade the focus of the business has been entirely on being a specialist producer of a wide range of outdoor vegetables grown in Jersey. Fresh produce is harvested and packed daily for Island-wide deliveries.

A large part of the business is the potato crop which includes varieties that are sold nearly all-year round. The majority of produce is seasonal, with outdoor lettuce grown only during the spring and summer months, leeks and carrots from June through until April. While a wide range of brassica crops (cabbages, greens, cauliflower, sprouts and broccoli) provide a choice throughout the year.

We try and encourage our customers to buy locally whenever possible, by doing so they are reducing “food miles”, retaining money in the Island’s economy and supporting a sustainable industry that reduces imports and provides an alternative to export crops.

Our aim is to de-intensify our production by using wider rotations, less artificial fertiliser and more organic manures. This diversity helps the agri-environment and maintains some of the Island’s later fields in cultivation. This in turn helps preserve the public expectation of what makes Jersey’s countryside. We like to think that our customer’s support in making Genuine Jersey Produce their preferred choice has far reaching benefits to the Island as a whole.

In 2004 the business was strengthened by two of the management team, Colin Mallet and Mike Greenwood joining the founder Anthony Le Brun, as share holders and directors. This gives Amal- Grow a direction for the future while it can still draw on its past experience to react to new demands from the market place.

Amal-Grow has been an approved member of the Assured Produce Scheme since 1998. The aim of this nationally recognised organisation is to give customers the confidence that all our produce has been grown within an integrated management system that reduces the input of chemicals and traces the production through from seed to sales. This means Islanders can buy fresh produce that they know has been grown just a few miles from where they live, but to an assured national standard.

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