Homekind Studio

A no-dig micro farm in South Bristol growing chemical-free flowers.

Where to buy our bouquets

We sell fresh and dried bouquets at markets and community events throughout the season. Browse the calendar below to see where we will be next.

There are no events booked for this month

How to buy our flower buckets

We sell freshly cut flowers by the bucket from our farm, to florists and members of the public, perfect for:

  • DIY weddings
  • Parties and events
  • Arrangements at home

Each bucket is filled with a variety of stems, from focal to filler flowers, giving you everything you need to create your own beautiful display.

The buckets include a mixture of the best picks from the field that week. If you would like a particular colour palette or variety, please let us know and we would be happy to assist.

Short bucket
£30 / bucket
Number of stems 40
Length of stems 30cm
Tall bucket
£40 / bucket
Number of stems 30
Length of stems 50cm

Collection from our South Bristol farm (BS14 0DF) only. Cash or card payment taken on collection, except for orders over £50, where payment will need to be made via bank transfer 24 hours in advance.

Mixed flower bucket

About us

Who we are

Homekind Studio is a flower farm and floristry service run by Eilidh (pronounced AY-lee) and Ed. After meeting when we were teens we ended up at art school together, and both went on to work in design. An obsession with growing flowers and a fascination with the natural world took hold after lockdown, and when we started out on our first allotment.

Since then Eilidh has volunteered and completed a WRAGS traineeship (Work and Retrain As a Gardener Scheme) at Heart of BS13 Flowers – a flower farm in South Bristol, who have welcomed us onto the site we now share, which sits within Hartcliffe City Farm. Our patch was strewn with rubbish and thick with brambles, so it is a continuous labour of love transforming it into a productive flower farm.

How we grow

We are committed to building our farm and business as sustainably as possible.

We are no-dig, which means we disturb the ground as little as possible – applying cardboard and compost mulches as a layer on top to suppress weeds and feed the soil. This helps keeps carbon in the ground and allows the whole ecosystem under our feet to thrive. Happy soil, happy flowers!

We are chemical-free, which means the flowers we sell are 100% natural, with no synthetic inputs. Our farm and its wild surroundings is rich in wildlife doing its thing. Aphids are eaten by sparrows and ladybirds, and nettles and comfrey leaves provide the best ingredients for homemade organic fertiliser.

Our bouquets are also plastic-free. They are wrapped in paper and fully compostable, so they can return to the soil and continue the cycle!

FAQs

When you buy our flowers you are supporting a small business in nurturing a biodiverse patch of land on the edge of our city. We work with nature to produce a chemical-free, low carbon, beautiful product that serves the bees and the butterflies as well as our customers.

We think it is very important to sell flowers which are grown here, not flown here. It is difficult to transport flowers across continents, which means a lot less choice when it comes to imported blooms. Our flowers only need to travel very locally so customers can enjoy delicately petalled varieties, sweet scents, and a myriad of colours.

Currently around 86% of flowers sold in the UK are imported (Defra), arriving via the Dutch flower auctions, with a significant quantity air-freighted from as far as Africa and South America. This results in a typical bunch costing the British consumer in carbon more than half that of an economy flight from London to Paris (Why Women Grow, Alice Vincent). Chemicals, hazardous working conditions, single-use plastic, and energy used for refrigeration also play a large part in imported flowers.

We are committed to building our farm and business as sustainably as possible.

We are no-dig, which means we disturb the ground as little as possible – applying cardboard and compost mulches as a layer on top to suppress weeds and feed the soil. This helps keeps carbon in the ground and allows the whole ecosystem under our feet to thrive. Happy soil, happy flowers!

We are chemical-free, which means the flowers we sell are 100% natural, with no synthetic inputs. Our farm and its wild surroundings is rich in wildlife doing its thing. Aphids are eaten by sparrows and ladybirds, and nettles and comfrey leaves provide the best ingredients for homemade organic fertiliser.

Our bouquets are also plastic-free. They are wrapped in paper and fully compostable, so they can return to the soil and continue the cycle!

Yes. Every bouquet is tied with raffia and wrapped in paper, making them fully biodegradable and completely free from single-use plastic. We use second hand plastic buckets from the wholesalers to supply our customers with loose stems. We are always grateful if these can be returned so we can continue to use them.

When we need to purchase something made of plastic for our farm, such as trays and pots to grow our seedlings, we invest in high quality durable products which will last many years, if not a lifetime.

The word 'micro' refers to the relatively small patch of land we grow on, not our flowers! In fact, we try to grow flowers with lovely long stems, perfect for arranging! Our farm is only around 1/8 acre, however you do not need much space to grow a lot of flowers. Many of the varieties we grow are 'cut and come again', which means the more we cut, the more they will flower, and most of our beds see two rounds of flowers in a season.