Our Story
In spite of provincial childhoods and careers in the wine industry, we came to farming well and truly uninitiated. Certainly gardening is never something either my husband or I considered a pastime, least of all a vocation… We had not grown a single cut flower in our lives before sowing the first seeds on a sodden day in October of 2011, with an eight and a five year-old as help. What we did know was that Marlborough had no dedicated diversified flower farm (the model doesn’t really exist in New Zealand at all), that the climate was made for growing stuff, and that the little pocket of the province we had landed on had good soil, enviable water rights and great shelter from the notorious equinoxial nor’wester.
Flowers had been calling me personally though, long before I ever thought a field of my own possible.
