28/11/2025
🏆 wins “Best Food Producer” at the BBC Food & Farming Awards 2025! 🏆
We’re incredibly excited to celebrate a huge achievement from one of our community.
has been named Best Food Producer 2025 by the — a national recognition of their regenerative approach, extraordinary range of produce, and deep commitment to soil health and biodiversity.
Founded in 2017 by Calixta (with the help of her two working horses), Flourish grows a huge diversity of vegetables, herbs, salads, edible flowers and heritage grains for chefs, retailers and households across Cambridgeshire and London.
🌱 What Flourish had to say about the win
“For our whole team, this recognition means the world. As farmers – often working behind the scenes rather than front-of-house – it’s incredibly meaningful to have our work celebrated on a national stage. We’re especially delighted to see the BBC spotlighting regenerative, organic and agroecological farming, and highlighting its role in shaping a secure, sustainable food future.”
🌾 Praise from the judges
BBC judge and leading TV personality said:
“The growing principles underlying the business really do set an example about how we need to think about horticulture in the future: using less water, creating soil fertility with green manures, no application of fossil fuel-based fertilisers, and they are raising these extraordinarily abundant crops. The learnings have to be exportable and scalable to the wider farming industry.”
💻 On how they use Growing Good
“The Growing Good platform allows us to seamlessly showcase our ever-changing array of produce, and to efficiently pack and deliver our boxes to our amazing, loyal customers.”
Flourish’s win is a big moment — not just for them, but for everyone championing regenerative, organic and agroecological farming across the UK. Well done guys and thanks for being part of our community!
