2018.07.01 盖伊-辛格-瓦特森 有机农民

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Guy Singh-Watson is an organic farmer and founder of Riverford, a major British supplier of organic vegetables through a box delivery scheme. Born in 1960 and the youngest of five children, his parents became tenant farmers in Devon in 1951. He describes himself as "a proper little farm boy", and spent his free time outside, clambering up trees, catching rabbits, rearing his own pig and helping on the farm.

Severely dyslexic, he disliked school, but thanks to an aptitude for performing well in exams, he won a place at Oxford University to read Agricultural and Forestry Science, graduating with a First. He briefly joined the family farm, but left to become a management consultant in London and then New York, returning to the farm in 1986. He started cultivating vegetables on three acres of land with a wheelbarrow and a borrowed tractor, and found his niche, moving from three to 18 to 50 acres quite rapidly.

Initially, Guy sold to supermarkets, but became convinced that there must be a better way of getting his produce to customers, and set up a veg box scheme in 1993. His company now delivers to around 50,000 homes a week and had a turnover of £56.7 million in 2017.
Guy has four grown-up children from his first marriage and an eight-year-old step-daughter from his second marriage to Geetie Singh.



盖伊-辛格-瓦特森是一位有机农民，也是Riverford公司的创始人，Riverford公司是英国一家通过箱式配送计划提供有机蔬菜的主要供应商。他出生于1960年，是五个孩子中最小的一个，他的父母于1951年在德文郡成为佃农。他形容自己是 "一个合适的小农场男孩"，他的空闲时间都在外面，爬树、抓兔子、养自己的猪，并在农场帮忙。

他有严重的阅读障碍，不喜欢上学，但由于在考试中表现出色，他赢得了牛津大学农业和林业科学专业的录取，以第一名的成绩毕业。他短暂地加入了家庭农场，但离开后在伦敦和纽约成为一名管理顾问，并于1986年回到了农场。他开始用手推车和借来的拖拉机在三英亩的土地上种植蔬菜，并找到了自己的定位，从三英亩迅速发展到18英亩到50英亩。

最初，盖伊将产品卖给了超市，但他确信一定有更好的方法将产品送到客户手中，于是在1993年建立了一个蔬菜盒计划。他的公司现在每周向大约50,000个家庭送货，2017年的营业额为5670万英镑。
盖伊在第一次婚姻中有四个长大的孩子，在与吉蒂-辛格的第二次婚姻中有一个八岁的继女。