About
Welcome to our family-run flower farm and creative workshop space on the edge of the Yorkshire Wolds.
At Field 216, we don’t do the kind of flowers you find wrapped in cellophane in the doorway of a supermarket. Our homegrown British blooms are packed with character and personality; the kind that light up someone’s day.
In a former, more frenzied life I was a solicitor, but I wanted to cultivate a more creative and balanced existence. I wanted to see more of my family, to be free to take more risks. When I look out over our rows and rows of beauties – the first bulbs in spring time; the riot of colour in high summer; the dahlias and ornamental grasses in autumn – I feel content.
It isn’t just down to me, though. There’s also my dad, a practical problem-solver and Keeper of Useful Things; my mum, an endless source of horticultural knowledge; plus the rest of the family to call upon for both brute force and moral support. And then there’s Boris the border terrier. He isn’t as helpful as I’d like on the growing front, but he’s definitely good company.
Welcome to Field 216.
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Everything we produce is grown without pesticides or artificial fertilisers – natural methods for naturally beautiful flowers. The British weather might be fickle and our fingernails might be dirty, but we’ll take aching bodies over aching brains any day.
We’re rooted in our community. Bishop Wilton is one of Yorkshire’s best kept secrets, and it’s a village with a real sense of kinship. We love to welcome visitors, especially creatives who could make good use of a beautiful backdrop and readily available flowers, foliage and grasses.
