Trelowen Flowers, Orchard Park
We packed up our life in Bath in December spending our first Christmas in Cornwall.
Having started a number of infrastructure projects on the land during the Autumn, following the temporary planning permission to proceed at Orchard Park in Cornwall at the end of August. Our life belongings are now in a shipping container on site, while we wait for our second-hand wooden cabin to be rebuilt on site this Spring.
Our small flock of Bantam chickens are getting accustomed to life in the field, happy enough to lay their first egg of the year in late January—usually our first eggs don’t appear until Valentine’s Day.
We have completed the build of the Yurt, soon to be Tamsin’s Flower studio, (see that on our Instagram or YouTube channels) all that remains are the steps up to the entrance and its stove, before we look to fitting it out with shelving, sinks and tables.
Our tree-bog is nearly complete, hopefully in time for late winter tree-planting volunteers. Our Forest of Cornwall grant was approved in early January, too late to secure the fruit trees, but in time to get mixed hedging and shelter trees ordered. We are looking forward to mid February for our tree planting activities and first biodynamic preparation spraying across the whole farm.
The propagation polytunnel ground screw posts are in, hoping we will be through the major winter storms now, so we plan to finish building our polytunnel in time for summer flowers.
We cultivated 2 acres in late summer 2024, with a biofumigant mustard, later this Spring, after turning in this first crop, we will lime the land, our plot is particularly acidic at 5.1pH, not something we are familiar with coming from 7.3 pH in Bath. We are looking forward to making beds within our silvohorticulture growing space this spring and seeing how many flowers from our seed list thrive and flourish in the edge-of moor conditions in Cornwall.
In celebration of Imbolc we will be sowing flower seeds on that morning in line with our Biodynamic calendar. Here’s to the flowers, and to joy.
Find out more about Trelowen flowers on their website
