Cover of The Flower Fields publication

Cover of The Flower Fields publication, 2021.

I was commissioned by NEPN (North East Photography Network) in 2019 to work with commercial growers in Lincolnshire on the theme of horticulture  and technology.

This work is located in South Holland, a rural district in the South East of Lincolnshire where man drained, reclaimed and enclosed nearly three quarters of a million acres of fenland and by the late 1800s flower bulbs produced both for cut flowers and for sale as a dried bulb were a well established crop in the Spalding area.

This included traditional Lincolnshire mixed rotation family farms and larger commercial growers who mainly grow a limited range of flowers under glass and are pioneering the use of various technologies including hydroponics and optical graders.