My guest today is Calixta Killander, founder of Flourish Produce in Cambridgeshire.

Flourish is a producer of vegetables, salads, cut flowers and heritage grains which has grown over seven years to occupy an 80 acre site – a significant size for a producer of such a diverse range of produce, where much of the work is done by hand.

Diversity is key at Flourish, which is organic and working towards biodynamic certification. Calixta tells me they grow around 700 varieties, which is absolutely incredible, and includes all sorts of weird and wonderful veg I certainly hadn’t heard of.

Calixta’s passion for ecological farming, and for inspiring and educating people through amazing food comes through so clearly in this episode, as does her resilience in the face of some real challenges.

If you ever worry that you don’t get enough done in your week be prepared, because Calixta is very much a force of nature.

Enjoy!

* Flourish Produce website

* Flourish Produce Instagram

* Flourish Farm shop website

* Flourish Farm shop Instagram

* Chelsea Green Publishing

* Farmer to Farmer with Chris Blanchard

Music by RomanSenykMusic via Pixabay

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Called to grow - with Calixta Killander