Thursday, 8 December 2011

New home for now

Interesting thing fate. Almost everything has been against us since starting this but the main thing to remember at the end of it all is that we could not of done anything more. Yes we had lost the loan due to the economic downfall of the E.U but nature took its swing at us at the last minute as well. The day before we were due to move in and after spending a lot of money setting it up our landlord had the terrible job of informing us that the bore hole that our water supply was coming from had indeed all but dried up due to the driest year in 100 years.
 The 400 garlic were in and all the veg beds set up, and we were finally ready to plant something when we got the email on the tuesday morning. Not the best of days again and if i was ever going to start smoking again after 3 years it would have been then, but i didn't so its ok!
   We are now starting at the 'grass roots' probably how fate had intended us to start and building this from the ground up. No time and experience has been wasted researching, writing business plans and setting up a large scale business as this is what we shall be one day soon and already having the insights into how it works has been invaluable and this time at least it will be our money to do what we want with next year.
  Our current scale of the new business is only 25% of what was originally intended but the idea and ethos remains the same. Our range includes hybrid surfinia baskets along with beautiful trailing begonia baskets. Alongside this we have just planted out our pak choi and chioggia beets and chills :)
Our home for the next coming months is but a temporary one but to be given the chance just to get going, we will be forever grateful to the kindest man in Stratford who seems to have been there at every key moment in our lives supporting us all the way.
To where we go next year, i don't know yet, back to square one looking for damn land again and trying to talk to farmers with no sense of the word conversation but I'm sure with a bit of money behind us after this season we will come across our perfect patch.

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