Foxlight Flower Farm

12/09/2024

come see me at Bexhill Farmers Market tomorrow!🤟🏻💐🤟🏻

05/09/2024

We survived the summer holidays! And how better to celebrate than yo treat yourself to a lovely bunch of flowers! All bouquets only £7 tomorrow! Or buy two for £12! See you tomorrow!

10/08/2024

🌻SUMMER 2024 IS BONKERS🌻
🌞 one week, 🌧 the next, it's been a real challenge to farm 💐
And as this little flowery business grows, it's not just the challenge of growing flowers I've been learning about!
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For those that don't know, as well as running Foxlight single handed (apart from who brings an entire "why don't we just build it!?!" vibe), I also work part time for and juggle fairly appalling mothering to my 12 yr old
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So i recently invested in some invaluable advice from the legend that is Georgina as i thought it was high time i got my 💩 together and spent some time working ON the business, instead of being stuck IN the business
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The session was invaluable and I'm already starting to implement some tweaks to how I do things
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The website has already had a little bit of an overhaul and I'm looking forward to focusing more on the stuff I love
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SO, BUCKLE UP FLOWER FANS! I'm going to be moving into my rockstar era! Come along for the ride, it's going to be an ABSOLUTE VIBE
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10/08/2024

12/06/2024

Wait, what....?!?
I'm going to be making an appearance IRL?!?
O.M.G!
Yes, flower fans, I'm now going to be selling my flowers at Bexhill Farmers Market every Friday morning!
Come and say hi!
xoxo

07/06/2024

✌🏻💐FIRST OPEN DAY OF THE SEASON!💐✌🏻
I'm so excited to be welcoming lots of new visitors to the Farm on Saturday! Here's what to expect:
🌻I'll have our signs out on Harts Green, but please use Google Maps to find us, its the best for our location
🌷Customer parking is clearly sign posted, please park next to Polly The Tunnel in one of our 5 parking bays
🪻Follow the bunting to walk down to the picking patch
🌱Relax with 🫖 or 🍰 or have a wander round the picking patch
💐We had a very wet start to this year and lots of my picking patch babies are behind, so I'm bringing armfuls of my Polytunnel blooms down in buckets so you still get to choose from everything we have blooming
✌🏻we have Nigella, Sweetpea, Stocks, Calendula, Starflower, Florist Dill, Strawflower and maybe some Snapdragons...+ herbs and buttercups a-plenty
It's gonna be EPIC! 🤟🏻See you on Saturday!

19/05/2024

🌻WE'RE GETTING READY FOR YOU!🌻
Whoop whoop!
With the 🌞 comes the promise of brilliant blooms and lazy afternoons watching the 🦋 flutter and the 🐝 bumble with a cuppa and a slice of cake...
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And behind the scenes we're planning, planting, mowing, strimming, weeding (OH, SO MUCH WEEDING😖) tidying and generally making s**t up as we go along...! 😆
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🌻So if you haven't already booked in for one of our open days, slide into my DMs!
🌻Brides, come chat to me about how we can flower your wedding affordably and beautifully!
🌻Local pubs, restaurants, hotels and businesses, I start deliveries of my fresh, seasonal and BEAUTIFUL buckets of flowers in June, get in touch for your FREE sample bucket!
🌻...and this year, I'm going to adding to the flowery madness by selling bunches of cut flowers at my new stall at Bexhill Farmers Market every Friday 9am - 1pm (from June 14th!)
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Cor blimey, is there anything we're NOT doing?!?
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Can't wait to see you all over the summer!
Hit me up with any questions, you KNOW I 🩷 a chat!
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13/05/2024

What an amazing day! Great venue, great people great vibes ###

12/05/2024

🤟🏻FOXLIGHT ON TOUR!🤟🏻
Looking for something a bit different to celebrate a birthday, hen party or baby shower this year?
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I come to a venue or location of your choice and teach a range of flowery infused workshops:
💐bouquet making
🌻wreath making
🔮smudge stick making
🍹cocktail making
🫖herbal tea party
I bring all the ingredients and tools we need to have a good time, all you provide is the vibes! (although, I've got plenty of those too!) 🤟🏻
Some deets to help those 🧠 whirr into action!:
🌷Prices start at £10 p/person (dependent on type of workshop and numbers)
🪻Workshops last from 1 - 2.5hrs
🚕I travel within a 25/30 mile radius of Foxlight Flower Farm. So I cover an area from Brighton, over to Rye and up to Tunbridge Wells...
Slide into my DMs of use the Contact form on my website
See you soon!
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30/04/2024

💐FEELING THE FEAR AND DOING IT ANYWAY💐
I've been thinking about this post for a while. Mainly because I've been pogo-ing about in the moshpit of imposter syndrome + comparison for a good few months now, + F**K, if it doesn't just suck the joy out of things!
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I really thought I'd be well ahead of the game by now; that I'd have a polytunnel full of blooms, that the game changing event I committed to for May would be an awesome opportunity to showcase what I'm capable of, that I'd be flying high after a couple of years of learning...
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But I'm not. In fact, I have about 6 blooms. I had to pull out of the cool thing I was really looking forward too + I got too little in the ground, too small, too late in the polytunnel. Oh + the poxy ants ate everything anyway
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Everytime I pick up my phone I'm bombarded with flowery experts with fields full of successful crops, energetic entrepenuers dropping off armfuls of bouquets to sell at local markets + incredible artistic creations that make me feel what I'm doing is totally 💩
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But as the Spice Girls🌶 so prophetically sang: STOP RIGHT THERE, THANK YOU VERY MUCH!
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Yes - I've made planting mistakes this year
Yes - I'm not ready to take on the world (yet)
Yes - I've still got A L O T to learn about running a seasonal business...
But HOLY F**K, look what I've achieved through sheer force of will, hard graft + saying Y E S to things + making it work.
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I think what I'm trying to say, is that there is ALWAYS someone better than you at something, someone that's got there first, had the great idea + is making everything look easy. But you know what else? They will have had s**t days + cried in the car in Lidl carpark. Social media is full of bo****ks + being s**t at something is the first step at being AWESOME at something.
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🌻So FEEL THE FEAR + do it anyway
🪻F**k bebz, LEAN INTO IT!
🌻Say HELL YEAH, when you haven't the foggiest how to do something
🌷WORK S**T OUT ON THE FLY as it happens
🌻PIVOT like you're on wheels
🪻TRUST in yourself
🌻ALWAYS be brave and stay kind
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It will be ok 🩷

28/04/2024

💐WE LOVE TRADE DELIVERIES + DIY WEDDINGS💐
🌷Are you a florist looking for seasonal, cottage-core blooms, or something a bit different?
🪻Do you have a hospitality or customer facing business in the Battle/Hastings area and would love a regular delivery of fresh, seasonal flowers for your tables/reception/counter-tops?
🌻Are you a bride looking for DIY flowers for your venue, button holes or bouquets?
Well, hit me up and slide into my DMs because I'd love to hear from you!
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Thursdays and Fridays are my private appointment and delivery days
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Local hospitality businesses:
🌷We can chat on the phone, meet at your venue or on the farm for a chat about your requirements first
🪻I pick trade deliveries to order bespoke to your requirements (bud vases, bar displays, free standing displays, etc)
⚘️I can deliver flowers by the bucket or already arraged in your own vases
🌻I deliver free within a 10mile radius of the Farm every week
DIY brides:
🌷I can talk you though the whole process on the phone before committing
🪻I recommend you visit, or we arrange a video call 2 weeks before your big day to finalise the blooms you want
🌻I pick to order for you, or you visit the Farm to pick 2 days before the celebration
💐Small minimum orders
💐All blooms have a 7 day vase life
💐You support a small local business which is great for Karma ✨️and even better for the planet!🌏
Get in touch with any questions. I bloody LOVE a chat!
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25/04/2024

🌻2024 BABY! LETS GOOOOOOOO!🌻
We're trying something different this year!
Opening less weekends, but for longer; so on the days we are open for P-Y-O flowers, you beautiful people get my undivided attention!👐🏻
And there's loads more slots available, so there's more options for busy families😃
Tina the Teahut is looking forward to serving you gallons of loose leaf tea and home made cake🫖🍰
We may open other weekends depending on trade clients and my fabulous D.I.Y. bridal customers, for whom I open privately👰‍♀, but these days will be ad hoc, so pop these dates in your diaries and I'll see you on the farm!
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16/04/2024

I'm so excited to be working with Nicole from Breathe With Ease on this workshop!

14/04/2024

HERE COMES THE SUN!
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AND, THANK THE HEAVENS FOR IT!
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The spring planting is well underway at Foxlight and with the polytunnel giving me some alternative opportunities, i'm trying some new varieties:
Florist Dill
Stocks
Calendula
Lace Flowers
Lupin
Globe Thistle
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Adding to our usual...Strawflower, Zinnia, Sweetpea, Yarrow, Dahlia, Sunflower, Cosmos, Snapdragon, Nigella and Statice.....
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AND some groovy P.Y.O pumpkins
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I'm really excited about what we could have blooming in the next couple of months!
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Keep your eyes peeled on our socials for when we're opening this summer and I can't wait to see you down on the farm!
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22/03/2024

🤟🏻🎉PLANNING UPDATE🎉🤟🏻
After weeks and weeks (and weeks) of waiting, emailing, calling and fist shaking at the sky, our planning application for polytunnels and extra barns for the mechanical nonsense (SORRY: 'VINTAGE TREASURES').....
HAS BEEN APPROVED!
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Just as well, as we had already put x1 polytunnel up🫣...
The approval has come too late for it to make much of an impact on our 2024 season, but it does mean that I can get a massive head start on 2025, Kenny the Kabota 🚜 gets a new house in the bottom field and I can keep my 🛠 in a lovely dry structure come Autumn, rather than in a wheelie bin on the picking patch😆
THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU
To the x50 (!!! FIFTY OF YOU! YOU ABSOLUTE EFFING LEGENDS !!!) of you that posted supportive comments on our application last year
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It was quite emotional reading them all and I confess to re-reading them over and over when things have felt really hard this Winter.
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I can't wait to see you all this summer and do a little happy dance in the picking patch with you all
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See you soon!

15/03/2024

We had double the amount of average rainfall in February...
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Twice as much rain =
💧sodden fields i can't even roll a wheelbarrow across
💧waterlogged water beds potentially rotting my perennials
💧less time i can work on maintaining the beds
💧a thoroughly fu***ng miserable time
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I have chucked my toys out of the pram at least eleventy billion times this year and nearly driven a 🚜 through the flower farm on many, many occassions...
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This week, i'm starting to get to it and boy, oh boy, is it disgusting AND SATISFYING!
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Fingers🤞🏻it starts drying out now we're mudway through March, because i've got hundreds of seed babies to get in the ground in the next couple of weeks....!
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31/12/2023

✌🏻💐THANK YOU💐✌🏻
Wowee! 2023 was only our second season at Foxlight, it was well and truly BONKERS! 😆
And I already feel as if we're growing something special..
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This was the year...
🪻More fabulous florists found Foxlight flowers and used them in displays, installations, weddings and for their workshops💐
🪻We built furnished her with vintage china and served home made cake and loose leaf tea from her🫖🍰
🪻We levelled, lined and woodchipped the bottom of out flower field to make room for our workshop bell tents, Foxglove and Bluebell⛺️
🪻We added a camping loo to our rustic facilities 😯
🪻We held our first summer workshops on the farm: yoga, wreath making and dried flower crafts 🙏🏻
🪻We planted a herb bed on the farm (so I'm a witch now)🌱✨️
🪻I made candles, wall hangings and lots of lovely things for my first ever craft fairs🕯
and that's just the tip of the compost pile!
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2023 has been tough for a lot of reasons, but I'm grateful for every lesson, every pivot and every opportunity and absolutely fu***ng DELIGHTED that I've been able to flower your homes, meet your lovely faces and grow my little corner of the world🌍💐🌍
Here's to a blooming brilliant 2024
I can't wait to share our plans with you!
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20/12/2023

💐🙏🏻I NEED YOUR HELP🙏🏻💐
I want to give your more seasonal, sustainable and local flowers next year
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More varieties, more colour and more JOY✌🏻
But i really need your help do do it...
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We've submitted a planning application for polytunnels and a new potting shed, to grow bountiful beds worth of more flowers and help make my dream of being a destination to connect with nature, relax, take a break from the everyday pressures of life and go home with an armful of affordable and beautiful pick-your-own-flowers a reality.
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To be successful, we need to gather as many comments of support to our application as we can.
So if you've picked our flowers, eaten our cake or just popped by for a look, and had a nice time, then PLEASE visit the link in the bio 👆🏻 and comment your support of our application.
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It would make a huge difference to this little flowery business if you could.
THANK YOU
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