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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Massey Brook,Massey Brook Lane,Cheshire,England,UK,WA13 0EG,Pumpkin Bowling,pumpkin,at,Lymm,Farm,diversity,retail,entertainment,amusement,sign,field,attraction,sweatshirt,profitable,search,to,buy,buying,patch,plants,carving,fun,family,event,destination,Pick-your-own,PYO,income,channels,growing
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2K967KB - Pick-your-own pumpkins offer diversified income channels
The market for pumpkins in the UK has seen a huge growth in the past decade, with the public increasingly looking for an on-farm experience and to buy directly from producers.
Pumpkins can offer significant additional income for farmers if done well, especially when accompanied by other value-added extras such as refreshments or attractions.
There are two main markets either selling direct to the consumer or wholesale. Each has its benefits and challenges.
When growing for wholesale, there are often extra costs for grading, on-farm storage and transport. The labour-intensive harvest process for wholesale at scale will also need seasonal labour, stock-photo/gotonysmith-Which.html?sortBy=relevant&pseudoid=237DAF28-A4ED-4448-8173-C0E81ABEEC6F Target=_Blank>which can be difficult to find.
Selling direct to consumers poses other challenges, including public access to the farm.
Pumpkin seeds can be planted indoors from mid- to late April, however it is more common to plant seeds and seedlings outdoors from May to early June.
Lack of fruit can be an issue and diseases include powdery mildew and grey mould. Pumpkins can also suffer in very wet seasons and may need irrigation during a dry summer.
Will John and Chris Creed, consultants at agricultural adviser Adas, say that the market is becoming saturated in some regions of the UK. However, businesses can still be profitable if they are able to market effectively.
What are the essential requirements and costs?
Mr Creed says: To be successful, you have got to have infrastructure, hard car parking, booking systems, strong social media campaigns and good road access.
A potentially less risky option is to grow for an existing business, which may have already invested in the infrastructure to cater for the public.
Some farm shops and garden centres have very good infrastructures to accommodate the public, but they haven't got much ground. So they may be able to grow some and then stock up from a local grower, which can be a win-win situation for everybody,
Massey Brook Lane, Lymm, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA13 0EG
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Keywords: GoTonySmith,HotpixUK,@HotpixUK,Massey Brook,Massey Brook Lane,Cheshire,England,UK,WA13 0EG,Pumpkin Bowling,pumpkin,at,Lymm,Farm,diversity,retail,entertainment,amusement,sign,field,attraction,sweatshirt,profitable,search,to,buy,buying,patch,plants,carving,fun,family,event,destination,Pick-your-own,PYO,income,channels,growing
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy 2K967KM - Pick-your-own pumpkins offer diversified income channels
The market for pumpkins in the UK has seen a huge growth in the past decade, with the public increasingly looking for an on-farm experience and to buy directly from producers.
Pumpkins can offer significant additional income for farmers if done well, especially when accompanied by other value-added extras such as refreshments or attractions.
There are two main markets either selling direct to the consumer or wholesale. Each has its benefits and challenges.
When growing for wholesale, there are often extra costs for grading, on-farm storage and transport. The labour-intensive harvest process for wholesale at scale will also need seasonal labour, stock-photo/gotonysmith-Which.html?sortBy=relevant&pseudoid=237DAF28-A4ED-4448-8173-C0E81ABEEC6F Target=_Blank>which can be difficult to find.
Selling direct to consumers poses other challenges, including public access to the farm.
Pumpkin seeds can be planted indoors from mid- to late April, however it is more common to plant seeds and seedlings outdoors from May to early June.
Lack of fruit can be an issue and diseases include powdery mildew and grey mould. Pumpkins can also suffer in very wet seasons and may need irrigation during a dry summer.
Will John and Chris Creed, consultants at agricultural adviser Adas, say that the market is becoming saturated in some regions of the UK. However, businesses can still be profitable if they are able to market effectively.
What are the essential requirements and costs?
Mr Creed says: To be successful, you have got to have infrastructure, hard car parking, booking systems, strong social media campaigns and good road access.
A potentially less risky option is to grow for an existing business, which may have already invested in the infrastructure to cater for the public.
Some farm shops and garden centres have very good infrastructures to accommodate the public, but they haven't got much ground. So they may be able to grow some and then stock up from a local grower, which can be a win-win situation for everybody,
Massey Brook Lane, Lymm, Warrington, Cheshire, England, UK, WA13 0EG
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4575478451 - 'If you are on Twitter, do add a follow there and I will follow back in return mobile.twitter.com/HotpixUK
Have a look at my archived photography, from ten years back at www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 5128313336 - 'The Sea - 'Morcheeba' - Play this track here.
\u00bfWhats this iPod Shuffle set all about? Read about it here
A track to enjoy with a drink in your hand or a bar of quality chocolate, this one.
The word 'morcheeba' is meant to indicate 'the way of cannabis'. This originated from 'MOR'(middle of the road) plus 'Cheeba' (informal name of cannabis).
Morcheeba mix pop, hip-hop, rock and electronica and are based in the UK. They have consisted of Paul &
Ross Godfrey, Skye Edwards and recently Daisy Martey, among many guests. Their debut album 'Who Can You Trust?' on China Records was released in April 1996.
This track comes from 'Big Calm' the second album which was more mainstream and pop-ey.
This is the best album to start with Morcheeba, if you check it out, tell 'em I sent you :-)
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This is meant to be a slightly spooky image in keeping with Halloween. I have avoided the usual Halloween cliche's of ghosts, ghouls, pumpkins, trick or treat etc. Last years very normal Halloween carved pumpkin with an ipod headphone can be seen here www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/4083459935/
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Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4083459935 - 'A carved orange pumpkin (Squash) ready for use at the festival of Halloween as a lantern. Lighting provided by a sparker to produce yellow hair.
Pumpkins are commonly carved into decorative lanterns called jack-o'-lanterns for the Halloween season in North America. Throughout Britain and Ireland, there is a long tradition of carving lanterns from vegetables, particularly the turnip, mangelwurzel, or swede.
Not until 1837, however, does jack-o'-lantern appear as a term for a carved vegetable lantern, and the carved lantern does not become associated specifically with Halloween until 1866.
Although every modern chronicle of the holiday repeats the claim that vegetable lanterns were a time-honored component of Halloween celebrations in the British Isles, none gives any primary documentation. In fact, none of the major nineteenth-century chronicles of British holidays and folk customs makes any mention whatsoever of carved lanterns in connection with Halloween. Neither do any of the standard works of the early twentieth century.
In the US, the carved pumpkin was first associated with the harvest season in general, long before it became an emblem of Halloween
Another use of a sparkler here www.flickr.com/photos/hotpixuk/4059561024/
More festival things in my photostream-
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Keywords: Orange,Halloween,Pumpkin,with,sparkler,for,hair,gotonysmith,carved,face,eyes,nose,mouth,pumpkin,all,hallows,allhalows,allhallows,carviing,ideas,decorating,Punkin,Attractive,craft,jack-o'-lantern,jack-o-lantern,jack-o,lantern,jacko,carving ideas,Pumpkin Carving Ideas,ignis,fatuus,or,will-o'-the-wisp,in,English,folklore,used,especially,in,East,Anglia,firework,sparkling,gotonysmith,Buy Pictures of,Buy Images Of
Description: Tony Smith image Alamy CEYAAJ - Orange Halloween Pumpkin with a creative firework sparkler for hair.
A modern jack-o'-lantern is a carved pumpkin, although originally large turnips were carved. It is associated chiefly with the holiday of Samhain and Halloween and was named after the phenomenon of strange light flickering over peat bogs, called ignis fatuus or jack-o'-lantern. In a jack-o'-lantern, the top is cut off, and the inside flesh then scooped out
an image, usually a monstrous face, is carved out, and the lid replaced. It is typically seen during Halloween.
Scotland, United Kingdom
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Keywords: halloween,haloween,biscuits,treats,treat,cookie,cookies,home,made,food,sweet,sweets,iced,icing,baked,oven,seasonal,autumn,scary,ghost,ghoul,ghouls,pumpkin,derek,acorah,hunter,365days,stillife,stilllife,still,life,hotpix!
Description: Tony Smith image Flickr 4058830349 - 'Some homemade halloween biscuits.
(c) baking credit to Jo/Joe Parkin
(c) Hotpix / HotpixUK Tony Smith - Hotpix.freeserve.co.uk WDCC',
