If you think of a successful multi faceted flower farm business; it's hard to look past the passionate and vivacious Georgie Newbery.
Having what she describes as a "portfolio life" Georgie has lived in Paris, previously working for American Vogue under the tutelage of the late Susan Train and Andre Talley before working for John Galliano.
Departing the fashion world having set up "Common Farm Flowers" back in April 2010. Georgie now resides on her flower farm in Somerset in England's West Country (about 2 hours from London) with her business partner husband and kids.
She says she will always grow flowers for sale, but Georgie has clearly expanded her business over the years and has turned her considerable talents to a number of different flower related business streams.
A staunch supporter of Local British Flowers, Georgie now exclusively grows and supplies her flowers within her local area as well as using her own flowers in her work as a wedding florist.
She has also authored two successful flower related books - "The Flower Farmers Year" and "Grow your Own Wedding Flowers". (Both readily available on her website)
Additionally Georgie runs workshops on her farm as well as providing coaching and guidance to many budding (see what we did there) wannabe and current flower farmers. This includes focussing on the business side of things as much as the flowers.
A natural raconteur, her latest venture has now seen her take on "the youtube" space with over 25,000 subscribers around the world. Her youtube club is thriving and we even got a message from a flower farm that is part of her club as we were writing this very episode description.
Georgies energy and passion was self evident as we spoke with her about "why we should all support local", the business side of flowers, pricing and also why she feels the old idea that businesses should grow for the sake of it is absurd.
Georgie is fierce in her support of other small business owners who want to make a good living supplying a very high quality product without endlessly having to expand and Common Farm Flowers is a business she holds up as an example of one where it makes enough money, but the founder continues to engage with the creativity of growing, cutting and arranging flowers in a way that is true to herself.
Hosts: Sam Baff and Jayde Timms from Grown Not Flown
Guest: Georgie Newbery - Common Farm Flowers
Website: www.commonfarmflowers.com
Instagram: @commonfarmflowers
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