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On Your Farm: Business is Blooming

Business is Blooming

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Sarah Swadling visits a Cornish flower farm where business is blooming.

Sarah Swadling meets a family of Cornish flower growers enjoying a revival in British flowers.

Sarah Swadling visits family flower growers BJ Richards in the Tamar Valley in Cornwall. Barry Richards built his first glasshouses in the 1970s and now sons Paul and Darren are continuing the business. They tell Sarah how things have changed, as many British growers were pushed out of business by cheaper imports from the Netherlands and beyond. The Richards family adapted to survive by becoming importers themselves. Now, there's a revival of interest in British grown flowers and the Richards are producing an array of blooms for florists all over the country. Paul explains how social media posts during the Covid pandemic connected them with a whole new group of customers.

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