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Aweside Farm Organic pressed edible flowers and dried edible flowers. A sustainable way to have flowers year round

08/10/2026

The Organic license extension for all the dried products has gone through! You might remember I had the inspection back in August and we've got our certificate today!

We've been Certified organic for 6 years but that just covered the fresh side of the business, so all our wholesale work.

This year I extended the license to cover all of the dried products with an On Farm Processing license and I can now officially call our dried edible flowers and dried herbs organic!

It's been months of paperwork and picking together new procedures and policies. The shipping container had to be completely overhauled and rearranged - I still have lots more to do on that to achieve the SALSA accreditation, but right now, I'll celebrate this Organic Certification! And enjoy a wee break before finalising the SALSA food safety stuff over the winter.

06/10/2026

So honoured to be apart of the Soil Association 80 voices for 80 years. It's been a journery here that's for sure, but seeing the land here transform in such a small amount of time is a testament to organic practices

05/10/2026

Hey friends 👋🏾😁

Week and a half out of knee surgery and my oh my have I needed a good week and more to doing absolutely nothing.

August and September I really felt like I was hanging on by a thread physically, so to down tools and lay in bed for a week has been welcomed and needed. The aches and pains across my body are wanting. I've been reading lots, baking and endlessly chatting with my friends and family.

Friends and family have been in and out staying and visiting, cooked me lush meals, bringing sweet treats, taking me out for ice cream 🙏🏾🍨 entertaining me with phone calls that last hours on end.

It feels so nice to be held by my nearest and dearest and let myself be truly looked after.

It's a real contrast to how I treated myself a year and a half ago when I broke my hand and had to have reconstructive hand surgery. I worked the next day after surgery 💀 A whole lot has changed in me since then and I'm so relieved and grateful for where I am now and understanding I'm not a machine that must produce and am allowed rest and recovery.

I'm able to walk lots more the past couple of days, feel a big leap in movement. I'm slow, and still waddling, but I can feel the difference.

I'll find out in November what the plan is given this surgery didn't go to plan. Hopefully we will figure out how to get this lovely tricky not-so little lump out of here!

Returning back to do light admin jobs, I'm overhauling and rebranding the farm, so plugging away with that as it's all jobs I can do sat down. As ever am catching up on Comms after switching everything off for a few days, so bear with me 🥺

Lots of love xoxo

25/09/2026

So my knee surgery didn't work. They couldn't get the bone/cartilage out, it was caught on my tendon. So I've now got to recover for months, waddle on crutches, get stitches out in a few weeks, rehabilitate as I would anyway, from a surgery that didn't work and figure out where we go from here.

20 years of knee problems since an accident at 14 years old. A year in a metal leg brace and being dubbed bionic girl at school 😂 Years of it slipping out, dislocating, twisting, locking, collapsing. And the past 4 years of it being it's worst and locking and getting in stuck in one position for months. Between March and June it was locked in place, couldn't squat, couldn't kneel, couldn't fully straighten.

The sciatica from it, the ruined hip that's in agony. The years of being told "it's in my head", "there's nothing there", "lose weight", "get stronger", "there can't be a lump that moves".

We paid for a private MRI to prove it in April, after shut down after shut down..

Finally, "oh yeah you're right", "how did they miss this, it's 11mm and huge", "need to urgently get this out"...but it deffo can't move as far as you're claiming.

And today I am right, it floats from the left side of my knee cap where it causes my leg to lock and other times it's behind the back of my knee wedged in the tendon flaring up the sciatica. Today it was out of reach, too close to that tendon, in what they call a 15% blind zone where you can't there very well - in the place I was told it couldn't possibly be I kept saying that's where it goes sometimes, yes it's far fetched, but I've lived with the damn thing.

They gave it a good go, managed to locate it but it was hooked and wouldn't come out. It's close to too many arteries and important nerves and had to be called there. The surgeons will get together next week, work out a plan, and try again once I've healed.

Actually devastated.

I just want to ride my bike again and walk up a hill.

I'm gonna go ghost for a while folks. Recover both physically and mentally from what's been years of an ordeal

Logging out. Much love xoxo

23/09/2026

I've rabbited on about the new herb overhaul so much that I have completely forgot to show you the other half of the farm this season!

The farm is split and divided by a long 40m line of sea buckthorns. On one side is the new herb area and the other side is mixture of old, meets new, meets experiment.

I'm trying out some smaller beds to work on weekly successions for some of the herbs on this side like dill and coriander, I've been trialling 2.5m long beds and sowing each block weekly and working on a rotation.

I think I've found a size that works well and meets the weekly order amount that goes out wholesale. Visually the separate beds actually a cue for me to work in a succession and I can have enough small beds to cover the time it takes between sowing, germinate, cutting, removing, sowing again. So over the winter, I'll rearrange the beds on this side to accommodate the changes and what I've liked from the trial.

The next big big project will be turning over 1/4 of the total current growing area over to a new style. This is where the drying plants are, the calendulas, cornflowers and marigolds. They're currently on big open beds that are about 15m wide and 7m long.

Next year I'm going to try out a couple of experiments, one with a long term green manure and then the plants sown into them and strimming the green manure like living pathways. And the other will be moving to a smaller version of the herb garden style with meter wide beds and permanent grass pathways that'll be mowed. We'll see how that goes!

It's nice to have the spark back and reshaping the farm ✨💖🤩

23/09/2026

September is one of my favorite times of the year because of where the sun rises. It changes throughout the year tracking along that line of trees on the farm.

September in particular the angle just hits differently across the farm. I always look forward to it as a real marker of the nights drawing in and the season coming to an end

So good morning and I hope you all have a good day 🥹

22/09/2026

Starting the mornings with picking the herbs and Mondays are the biggest order day of the week, with the big bulk of fresh wholesale orders going out and I'm starting off with 4kg of various mints going.

I wanted to share with you how beautiful the Moroccan Mint is looking right now, it's my absolute favourite!

We've been drying this and I think we'll squeeze in one more round of drying before the season closes out!

The first batch is up and available on the shop and I've been told it's the most flavourful mint tea someone has had since being in actual Morocco 🥹🥲 what a compliment 🙏🏾

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19/09/2026

This year I've been ripping things up and starting again. Figuratively and literally. I call it, Aweside 2.0 💃🏾💪🏾🥳💓

I've been working on this land since 2019. If you've been here that long, you'll know, I've had a pretty rough time. Between starting a capital intensive business with little to no money, getting hit by COVID and the business going up in flames. 3 years of injuries spanning a bust shoulder, cracked ribs and sternum, 3 concussions, broken hand, and an immobile knee. My body has taken a beating.

Mentally, I've been to depths and pits of hell that I wish to hopefully never revisit. An AuDHD diagnosis, sobriety and great support is freeing me day by day.

A £47.5k buyout and all the dodgy high street loans I took out to fund that to stay here. Nearly losing the land with a planning permission year long fight.Taking out £17k on credit cards over the past year to finally invest in myself, our new home, the production space, and my mental and physical wellbeing - if you're small farming, getting actual loans is a nightmare. I spent winter 2024 in a library learning finance and economics and I found ways around the lack of accessible support in this industry that thankfully hasn't cost me much in interest.

And we are here, Autumn 2026. I'm £4k out of being clear of all the loans and investments, about to get my knee hopefully fixed next week. I'm taking 6 months off major farm work to focus on rehabilitation across all my injuries and deeply rest after what's been a tumultuous journey.

I feel ready to hang up the sad girl hat and move into the joy I've been claiming I want, but frankly didn't think I deserved. I realise really, it's all based in choice and in so, I have choose to step in joy and create the conditions for it here. I can't keep looking at the sky, asking for better times and not taking the actual leaps to do so.

And that's what the past year has been, real change. A complete overhaul and leading this new journey with an understanding and clarity of what I want and what my needs really are and to nurture those needs, as that's how I'll be able to show up in the world to do some real good things

15/09/2026

So we had a happy accident on the farm with the garlic chives.

It was a very hot April and they just sort of disappeared, and having not seen them for months, I thought, they're probs done for. Plus, I totally forgot where within the new herb area they actually were as I let that space cover over with clover and grass.

We had that first bit of rain in late August and turns out, they were just really really thirsty and literally shot up within a couple days and are now all flowering.

I had been thinking about lining the edges of the rosemary and thyme mounds with something perennial like garlic chives, and then this lot popped up on the side of the last mounds we did, almost like a showpiece.

I thought it might help with acting as a dense planting to help stop the grass encroaching up and I think it's going to look quite spectacular as a yearly display in August and September.

The garlic chives don't need their own bed as they only really produce over 1 month, so having one of the 13 herb squares dedicated to them, seemed like a poor use of space when they're well suited to edging and can be mowed a fair bit and still come back strong.

I'm hoping this new placement might help us with nudging the timing of flowering a bit too.

So they'll moving from the other half of the farm and over onto this side.

I'm enjoying thinking about the laying of both space and time in this area 😄😁🤗❣️

11/09/2026

I took the last couple off to go to with my sister - the two of us have been creating little businesses and ideas since we were 11 years old 😅 so it was pretty cool now we're all grown up and go celebrate our businesses.

Eve did the learning...I went to one talk and then milled around doing nice recovery based things including getting the greatest haircut of my whole life by at the tent. I can't tell you how amazed I was to see my curls like this after years of awful hair cuts and surrendering to just hacking away at it myself.

The absolute icing on the experience was finally meeting Jen in real life. Jen has been a mentor and coach and I don't say it lightly but really changed my life and was the catalyst for getting me to where I am now.

In 2023 I broke down, I was severely unwell and Jen was the first person I trusted enough to work with and begin rebuilding with. I had a pretty grim fall back and another break in 2025, and Jen was right there to help gather the pieces with no judgement. She was the person that has helped me understand what was going on in that jumbled up mind, led me toward an ADHD diagnosis which I now also know is AuDHD.

I've rebuilt the entire farm, business and personal life on the back of our conversations and so it accommodates my neurodivergence and she gave me the permission to rip up the rules I was forcing myself into and start again.

To be able to hug the person who gave me that first big nudge towards understanding, embracing and eventually loving my neurodivergence was a great great gift from !

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