Flower farmer, florist, author and teacher, Georgie Newbery has been growing flowers for sale on her smallholding in Somerset for over fifteen years. She is renowned for helping spearhead the renewal of interest in locally grown flowers throughout the UK and around the world through her social media, workshops, inventive floristry, writing, and the exceptional quality of the flowers and foliage she grows at Common Farm Flowers.
Founding Common Farm Flowers in 2010, Georgie Newbery was one of the first of the new kind of artisan flower farmer to establish in the UK. She’s renowned for her expertise as a grower, florist and business coach. While she says she’ll always grow flowers for sale, Common Farm Flowers streamlines further every season as Georgie spends more time teaching and mentoring other small businesses to help them identify and work towards their goals.
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. Common Farm Flowers is a business Georgie holds up as an example of one that makes enough money, but whose founder continues to engage with the creativity of growing, cutting and arranging flowers in a way she always wanted to be.
Georgie is also the author of The Flower Farmer’s Year, Grow Your Own Wedding Flowers and the first novel in a series to come, the novel called All Desires Known.
She is an RHS Floristry Judge, RHS Trials Committee Member, and Garden Media Awards Judge. |
