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The Accidental Pumpkin Patch: How One Rainy Wedding Started It All

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Content provided by Emily French. All podcast content including episodes, graphics, and podcast descriptions are uploaded and provided directly by Emily French or their podcast platform partner. If you believe someone is using your copyrighted work without your permission, you can follow the process outlined here https://podcastplayer.com/legal.

Have you ever wondered how Foxes Farm Produce really began? Was it passed down from generations? Started with hundreds of acres and big machines? Think again.

In this episode of The Pumpkin Patch Mum, you’ll hear the real story of how a farmer's daughter from Billericay and a Colchester boy with a love for veg turned a university side hustle into one of the UK’s leading suppliers of wholesale pumpkins — and one of Essex’s most-loved pick your own pumpkin patches.

Discover how picking green beans became the perfect first date, why a rainy wedding led to the very first pick your own pumpkin patch back in 2015, and what it’s really like building a business from the ground up while juggling full-time jobs and raising a family.

You’ll get behind-the-scenes stories, personal insights, and funny moments from those early mornings delivering pumpkins to haunted scare grounds. Whether you’ve picked a pumpkin with us before or you’re thinking about visiting this year, this episode will bring you closer to the roots of everything we do.

In this episode you’ll find out:

  • Why Foxes Farm didn’t start with a plan, but with a passion
  • How Halloween has transformed in the UK over the last decade
  • What inspired the very first pick your own pumpkin patch
  • How two millennials turned a muddy field into a must-visit family experience
  • What makes the wholesale pumpkin journey so unique (and occasionally spooky)

www.foxesfarmproduce.co.uk

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Content provided by Emily French. All podcast content including episodes, graphics, and podcast descriptions are uploaded and provided directly by Emily French or their podcast platform partner. If you believe someone is using your copyrighted work without your permission, you can follow the process outlined here https://podcastplayer.com/legal.

Have you ever wondered how Foxes Farm Produce really began? Was it passed down from generations? Started with hundreds of acres and big machines? Think again.

In this episode of The Pumpkin Patch Mum, you’ll hear the real story of how a farmer's daughter from Billericay and a Colchester boy with a love for veg turned a university side hustle into one of the UK’s leading suppliers of wholesale pumpkins — and one of Essex’s most-loved pick your own pumpkin patches.

Discover how picking green beans became the perfect first date, why a rainy wedding led to the very first pick your own pumpkin patch back in 2015, and what it’s really like building a business from the ground up while juggling full-time jobs and raising a family.

You’ll get behind-the-scenes stories, personal insights, and funny moments from those early mornings delivering pumpkins to haunted scare grounds. Whether you’ve picked a pumpkin with us before or you’re thinking about visiting this year, this episode will bring you closer to the roots of everything we do.

In this episode you’ll find out:

  • Why Foxes Farm didn’t start with a plan, but with a passion
  • How Halloween has transformed in the UK over the last decade
  • What inspired the very first pick your own pumpkin patch
  • How two millennials turned a muddy field into a must-visit family experience
  • What makes the wholesale pumpkin journey so unique (and occasionally spooky)

www.foxesfarmproduce.co.uk

  continue reading

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