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10/08/2010 - A Scilly Mission Churchtown Farm are helping to sponsor three island boys do the Mongol Rally and raise money for the [Cystic Fibrosis Trust|http://www.cftrust.org.uk/]. They are taking a small family car through 17 c...
09/08/2010 - Churchtown Farm New Arrivals Over the last month we have taken delivery of four Red Ruby Devon Cattle. Two only had a short journey from within the islands whilst the other two came from a farm in Cornwall. They have settled in...
22/06/2010 - Over £500 for ShelterBox's Big Green Box Week [ShelterBox|http://www.shelterbox.org/donate.php] is a charity based in Helston, Cornwall. They respond quickly wherever and whenever disaster strikes by sending large green boxes packed with basic s...
30/04/2010 - World Championships Half the team at the farm are looking nervously at the weather and the sea state and wondering how much pasta to pack into their tummies whilst the other half are planning which pub they should visit ...
05/02/2010 - Giant Narcissi Honestly this is not a trick photo, Piran might not be the biggest five year old but this really was a whopper of a narcissi. In fact it wasn't the only one, we have a small patch of these giants in a...
08/01/2010 - Rosevine - spring special offer Really we should be encouraging you to come and stay on the Isles of Scilly but we have to let you know about a great place to stay in Cornwall. The Rosevine is a beautiful house right next to the be...
21/12/2009 - Bumper crop Thank you all so much for all your Christmas orders. The weather was really kind to us this year and we enjoyed a bumper Christmas harvest of top quality flowers. This Christmas we have picked, pa...
06/12/2009 - Christmas preparations Things are really hotting up at Churchtown Farm as we get ready to send all your gift boxes of Christmas Scented Narcissi. This is our busiest time of year and the planning starts well over a year be...
12/11/2009 - New Bouquets We have a new florist on the team. Steph has been working for us for over a year now but we have not been using her talents to the full, she has now moved from answering the phones to take over the r...
01/10/2009 - Watch us on ITVs Countrywise 1/10/09 7.30pm Tonight we will be featured on ITV’s popular weekly magazine programme, Countrywise . The show, which looks at the best of the British countryside, will be broadcast on ITV1 at 7.30pm on Thursday, ...
18/09/2009 - Ben and Zoë’s Trip to Highgrove In early September Ben and I were invited to Highgrove to celebrate the 40th anniversary of HRH Prince Charles being Chairman of the Prince’s Council. We were invited, as Churchtown Farm is a Duchy o...
03/08/2009 - Scilly First Class Post Beats BBC Top Gear Fans of the BBC's Top Gear may well have seen the recent race between the Top Gear Team in a Porsche and the first class post from Scilly to Orkney. We did think about contacting the programme when w...
09/06/2009 - The Scented Show Pinks are here! Admittedly a little later than usual - all that cold weather over the winter set them back a bit. Pinks are just such a pretty flower, closely related to carnations but unlike carnations they have a s...
22/05/2009 - Welcome to our new house At last our new house is totally finished. People have been living there for a little while and carefully walking round building tools and being tolerant of dust and draughts but now the doors are on,...
14/04/2009 - Stars of German TV For the last 3 weeks we have been followed by a German TV company who have been making a documentary TV programme about our farm, life on Scilly and the marine life of the islands. The 50 minute docu...
10/03/2009 - Nearly 2 months later.... ...and the new house now looks like this. Plastering has been done the bathrooms are nearly in and the carpet fitter is booked. It was a challenge getting blinds or curtains to fit the rather odd sh...
03/02/2009 - Curry flown in In the depths of winter it can be quite a challenge on St Martin's to organise a night out - our options are somewhat limited. So to reward our crew for all their hard work over Christmas we had an I...
17/01/2009 - Much needed very posh new housing Our latest building project is coming on apace. On December the 13th - just when we were really busy sending flowers for Christmas - good timing! The timber frame arrived for the new accommodation we ...
05/01/2009 - Royal Mail TV advert You may have seen the Royal Mail's latest TV advert encouraging people to visit royalmail.com to find out more about how to grow their business. If you do this and follow the case study in the 'Keepi...
09/12/2008 - Panto pensioners It’s the second year in succession that Dorset pensioners Shelagh and Mike O’Grady have spent the festive season with us on St Martin’s. We’re always so busy at this time of year and the O’Grady’s ...
14/10/2008 - Scented Narcissi are here! After all our Autumn sunshine we now have some Scented Narcissi to send out for you. It is a marvellous moment when the first of the narcissi crop are bought into the packing shed and their evocative...
04/10/2008 - Last of the Scilly Sun Last weekend saw us all out and about all over the islands enjoying the last of the summer sun. The Churchtown Team borrowed every kayak they could lay their hands on and paddled out to Tean - one of...
15/07/2008 - Island tradition Churchtown Farm has sponsored the St Martin's ladies Gig rowing crews this summer - seemed the right thing to do seeing as half the crew members work at the farm! Gigs are wooden boats about 32ft l...
14/04/2008 - The Independent vote us a Top Florist The Independent Newspaper ran an article recently (29/3/08) voting us the 5th out of the top 50 florists in the country. Putting us well ahead of John Lewis, M&S and Interflora and putting us TOP of ...
31/03/2008 - Walk Scilly 08 Last week the 2nd annual Walk Scilly festival took place building on success of last year’s event with even more walkers strolling across the islands. The seven day festival saw a series of themed gui...
29/01/2008 - Ethical flowers BBC Wildlife Magazine has voted our flowers top in a consumer test of ethically produced cut flowers. We were the clear winners out in front by 2 points scoring 9.5/10. Yippee!
22/01/2008 - Scented sunshine As winter grips the rest of the country we are literally bursting into bloom. Field fresh each day comes a golden harvest of beautifully Scented Narcissi – the perfect antidote to winter blues. The...
03/12/2007 - Christmas Preparations We are gearing up to send your flowers. The field team have been out in all weathers. The shed crew are making boxes and curling ribbons at pace. And the phones are ringing off the hook! P...
21/11/2007 - Farming Family of the Year It’s official we are the Farming Family of the year! The award was presented by Farm business and Farm Life magazines and sponsored by Mole Valley Farmers and given at a prestigious ceremony of ...
02/11/2007 - Our winter crop is here! It is a marvellous moment when the first of the narcissi crop are bought into the packing shed and their evocative perfume wafts through the shed and office, heralding the end of summer and arrival of...
15/10/2007 - Dinner at the House of Commons We have been nominated for ‘Farming Family of the Year’ – Judges are looking for successful family farms that not only benefit the immediate employees of the business but also strengthen the rural eco...
05/07/2007 - Not as pretty as flowers but... It might not look as beautiful as our lovely flowers but it is very useful! At last our new warehouse is ready and as you can see already remarkably full. After months of having to work around piles...
06/06/2007 - Perfect Pinks and an Island Wedding Our crop of Scented Show Pinks is now in full flow. Keith, our field manager and his team have produced a top quality crop of really strong flowers that are looking and smelling gorgeous. Now all the...
06/03/2007 - We Won! At a glittering award ceremony held at the Natural history museum in London, we were announced as the winners of an ECMOD award in the consumer category for giftware & gadgets. The annual ECMOD Awa...
09/02/2007 - ECMOD awards We are very proud to have been short listed for the 2006 ECMOD awards. The ECMOD Awards are firmly established as the Catalogue & Home Shopping sector's most sought after accolade. We have been short...
11/12/2006 - Christmas Send We are getting ready to send all of the gift packs of scented narcissi that you have ordered for Christmas. Keith and his boys are out picking in the morning and making boxes in the afternoon, Will ...
02/10/2006 - National Business Awards - Customer Focus This year we have enjoyed great success in WINNING the Customer Focus Award in the Cornwall Business Awards 2006 and being one of four (and definitely the smallest) businesses who were finalists in th...

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