Established 1883

You can trace Hoskings farming in Cornwall back to the late eighteenth century, but we’ve been where we are now, on the Fal estuary, since 1883. The fifth generation of our family to work on the farm have now joined us too.

A life before tractors, transport and all of today’s technology wasn’t easy – but some things in farming are constants which have nothing to do with progress. For all this time, whatever we’ve been doing here we’ve done with care and love for everything we’ve grown, reared and cultivated, always making sure we do nothing in our farming present to harm our farming future.

Our family’s been farming just under two and a half thousand acres of beautiful and fertile Cornish countryside for over 130 years.

Here on the Fal estuary, we grow over 400 varieties of daffodil, including many that are new, unique and rare. Our expertise in Cornish cut flowers, professional-grade vegetable plants and bulbs, as well as our more than 50 years’ experience, means we also export worldwide and sell directly to gardeners, wholesalers, councils and gardening clubs.

This is one of the world’s best places to grow daffodils and narcissi. It’s a thrill and a privilege to farm here; we also grow cereals, raise lamb (just over 700 breeding ewes), supply 80% of the vegetable seedlings Cornish and South West farmers need and, in August, September and October, sell our bulbs online, wholesale and from the shop on the farm. We reintroduced cattle to the farm in 2024 after a twenty-year break and now maintain a small pedigree herd of South Devon cattle. Our work is centred on producing high-quality beef and developing strong, dependable breeding lines.

What we do...

Here on the farm, we keep 700 breeding ewes. Our flock lamb indoors during the months of February and March, before being turned out onto pasture alongside the River Fal for the rest of the year. We are part of the Innovis ram breeding scheme, working alongside Red Tractor. Our flock is now heading away from Dorset's and mainly onto Aberfield/Aberfield SR, which is providing great results.

We maintain a small herd of Pedigree South Devon cattle, with a clear focus on developing strong breeding lines and producing high-quality beef. As members of the Premium Cattle Health Scheme and committed supporters of the South Devon Herd Book Society, we take pride in upholding the highest standards of cattle health and breed stewardship.
Jim Hosking played a significant role within the Society from the 1960s through to the 2000s, and we know he would be delighted to see South Devon's back on the farm once again.

We also cultivate 2000 acres of combinable crops. We grow a variety of crops starting from Oil Seed Rape, Beans, Wheat, Oats and Barley, including Maris Otter Barley for our local brewery - St Austell Ales. We run a wide range of modern equipment and aim to be as efficient as possible.

We raise 140 million vegetable plants annually. We provide vegetable plants across Cornwall and the South West- stretching as far as Bristol. Jeremy Hosking (fourth generation Hosking to farm here at Fentongollan) put up his first green house in 1990 and started his seedling operation in 1991. Thirty years on and twenty poly-tunnels later... Fentongollan are now supplying millions of vegetable plugs per day to local and national growers.

Last but not least, we grow 200 acres of daffodils (approximately 400 different varieties). We supply the cut flowers and bulbs market, available to the public and trade. Jim Hosking, 3rd generation Hosking to farm Fentongollan Farm, started doing flowers by post in the early1970s. Sending daffodils off to his friends and family, which was hugely popular. His son James Hosking (fourth generation farmer here), expanded the flowers by post business into bulbs by post in the early 1980s, giving customers an option to order flowers during the winter months and bulbs during the summer months. Our Cornish daffodils are sold across the country and we now send as far as the United States. We are proud to say our flowers and bulbs by post market is still hugely popular today, amongst members of the public, gardeners, garden centres, charities and wholesale customers (across the UK and world wide).

* Wholesale Prices available for Bulk Orders