How does the daffodil subscription work?
- We will harvest daffodils on Tuesday evenings.
- Bunches of daffodils will then be available for you to collect from outside Jessie’s house on Middle Street, Uplands.
- Because of how the daffodils crop, bunches in the first and last weeks will tend to be smaller, whilst the bunches in the middle weeks will be more generous. We aim for there to be at least 10 stems in your bunch of flowers.
- Also because of the cropping pattern, flowers are likely to start as traditional golden ones, and as the weeks go on they are more likely to be multicoloured and/or multi-headed.
- We harvest the daffodils with their flowers closed, so you get to enjoy as much as possible of the flowers at home – they may take a couple of days to open, and should last up to a week, largely depending on how warm they are.
- The subscription starts when the flowers are ready, which is almost certainly the first week of March, and will last for four weeks, maybe five if we’re lucky.
- We are expecting to sell only six weekly daffodil shares this year, and the daffodils we harvest will be split equally between those six shares. In this ‘Community Supported Farming’ model, the customers and growers share the risks and rewards of farming; whether this is a bountiful daffodil year or a thin daffodil year, we share out the harvest as it comes.
- If there is a much larger harvest than anticipated, we may offer some additional bunches for sale on an ad hoc basis, but our priority is always the subscription customers.
How do I sign up?
Just email oakbrookorchard@gmail.com, telling me:
- your name and contact details
- how many shares you’d like – it’s £10 for one share (one bunch each week), and you can order more than one share if you’re feeling exuberant!
I will then send you payment info, and confirm your subscription once I’ve received payment.