Buston Crisps Natural Sea Salt Crisps: Box of 12 x 150g

Buston Crisps are based on the beautiful coastal plain of Northumberland.

We – the Park family - have been growing potatoes here since the 1960s but in 2021, on the back of the “support local” food movement we decided to give crisps a go.

The potato growing season
Our crisping potatoes are planted in April and are usually starting to appear by the end of May. In June we water the potatoes – known as irrigation – using water from a bore hole on the farm. Depending on the weather we can start to harvest some of the crisping varieties at the end of June but the main harvest starts in September when the skins are set. We can store the potatoes in specialist fridges all year round.
The starch levels in the potatoes vary over time and that is why each batch of crisps produced will vary. These are not mass-produced standardised crisps!

About the Farm
Our farm is part of the Northumberland Coastal Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and it really is a beautiful place to live. We take our responsibility as custodians of the land seriously and we want it to be productive and ecologically diverse for generations to come.
To help us with this goal, the farm has been a LEAF Marque certified business since 2015.
This means our farm is managed to Integrated Farm Management (IFM) principles, which is a whole farm business approach that delivers more sustainable farming. Attention to detail is key; appropriate and efficient use of inputs, smarter approaches to business planning and the adoption of innovations and new technologies, all contribute to increasing productivity whilst protecting valuable resources.
Buston Crisps has a LEAF MARQUE Claims and Labelling Licence and we are proud to display the LEAF Marque logo on our bags.
The farm is also part of the Red Tractor Quality Assurance Scheme.
We grow as many cover crops as we can each year. Cover crops are otherwise known as ‘green manures’ – grown to eventually plough back in to increase the amount of organic matter in the soil to both improve soil fertility and reduce our reliance on artificial fertilisers.
When we do have to use artificial fertilisers we do so in the evening to reduce impact on wildlife (the bees from the apiaries on the farm will be back in their hives). We sow pollinators as a companion crop in our rotation, including sun flowers, poppies and ox-eye daisies.