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A visit to the flower farm of Marlston Farm Girl, Kim Fleming -

or how to turn an empty field into a fully productive flower farm in five flat minutes as opposed to my creeping along in my risk averse way. Contrast is everything though the objective the same.

No two small businesses are the same. Small scale flower farming does not have an easy-to-follow, straightforwardly laid out business model. And while the objective of flower farms - viz, to grow top quality cut flowers and foliage for sale - might be similar throughout the land, the way people do it is achieved in many many different ways. Here we have four acres on a family farm in rural Buckinghamshire, conveniently placed for west London customers right in the M4 corridor. Different weather, different soil, different customers to a business like mine. But the objective is not dissimilar: grow flowers for sale, save the world one flower at a time.

Enjoy this great tour of a perfectly laid out flower farm in which Kim has been on a rip rollocking ride to set up a profitable business in only five years. You need energy to work like this and Kim has it in spades.

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