About us

Capel St Andrew Farms (CSA), based near Woodbridge on the East Coast of Suffolk, is a family farming business producing high quality combinable crops, legumes, sugar beet, maize, potatoes, onions, carrots and parsnips, while caring for and enhancing the surrounding environment including the marsh, woodland and countryside.

The Greenwell family have been farming in Suffolk for three generations since the 1930’s, and today grows over 2,600 ha of arable and root crops. The main farm is situated East of Woodbridge near the villages of Butley and Hollesley, yet the business operates over a wider area of the East Coast including Ramsholt, Wickham Market, Wrentham, Sotterley and Somerleyton. The farm rent land to other producers who grow crops outside their standard cropping windows, including salads and turf, as well as working with two local pig farmers. 

The farming business is made up of a partnership and a limited company. Capel St Andrew Farms (CSA) is a farming partnership which owns and hires land,  grows and sells the crops, and purchases all inputs required. Capel Farming Ltd (CFL), undertakes the operational aspects of the business - read more.

Nearly 40% of the farm, however, is not cropped. It is made up of woodland, grassland, saltings and reed beds providing a varied landscape rich in many habitats for plants and wildlife, including SSSI’s which CSA help to preserve and maintain for future generations. What’s more, CSA, in partnership with RSPB, are proud to help maintain a vibrant habitat in the Butley Creek salt marshes and reed beds for overwintering and breeding birds, where Bitterns, Avocets, Marsh Harriers and occasionally a White-tailed Sea Eagle can be seen.

Within the farms land base is an Anglo-Saxon settlement and burial site, which has been subject to extensive archaeological surveying with many artefacts on display in the Ipswich and British Museums.