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STILL HERE AND ACTIVE

he past few months have brought about to react. In the week prior to national lockdown,
immense change to the way we all live and those staff who were able to work from home
Twork. For some it has been an opportunity were supplied with the necessary equipment to
to realise what is important in our lives, but for continue their duties, and any vulnerable staff
most it has brought about concern and anxiety. were also sent home. Communications and
Everyday life and work have changed and, at the meetings continued, albeit remotely with Teams
time of writing, there is no definitive end to the or Zoom.
current situation. Adjusting to remote
Allpress Farms is still here Allpress Farms were quick meetings took time but as
and active. Our staff are to step in and provide our hair grew longer, and
still as productive as ever, fresh vegetables to the we gained a few pounds, we
and have been throughout local community and learned to how to conduct
the current pandemic, charities, who were all remote meetings and
where demand for fresh changed how we effectively
produce has never been doing their best to assist communicated.
so high with consumers Lockdown also brought
buying longer shelf life goods to support their about shopping restraints for the older and
renewed life styles and home cooking. The more vulnerable inhabitants of our area, and
growing to harvest cycle continues, so crops still Allpress Farms were quick to step in and provide
need planting and nurturing through to harvest fresh vegetables to the local community and
to ensure that we keep filling those supermarket charities, who were all doing their best to assist.
shelves in the future.
For the farming operations and leek processing
With the onset of the pandemic the Directors to safely continue, a full risk assessment and
and senior management at Allpress were quick safe systems of work was reviewed under the

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