About
Crawford Road was originally established as an edible flower farm in 2021. We provided fresh edible flowers, pressed flowers and dried edible garnishes nationwide to top restaurants, pastry chefs and the home baker.
Like life Crawford Road has evolved and changed and now has a new purpose and direction. That direction is focused on you the home gardener. We now aim to inspire, educate and support everyone to reconnect with nature and dive headfirst into their garden. We are busy working behind the scenes to continue to bring you the best tools for this and will be continually adding new items. Including specialty seeds, essential gardening tools, information booklets and garden templates.
ABOUT OLIVIA
Hello! I'm Olivia McCord and the founder of Crawford Road. Like Crawford Road itself my journey has not been linear and certainly a journey of change. I originally studied Marketing and started my career in the beauty and fashion industry in PR and marketing. Following from this I retrained as a primary teacher and worked in that for a few years. However, it wasn't until I had children and my husband and I took on a project of bare land and converting it into an organic kiwifruit orchard and edible flower farm that I discovered my true passion for gardening, horticulture and all that comes with it. After all the hands on practical experience you could hope for I decided to gain further qualifications in horticulture as well as garden design through the prestigious English Gardening School based out of the Chelsea Physic Garden.
Now my passion is empowering people to enter their gardens and live seamlessly with the outdoors, no matter the space or size. I'm tirelessly working behind the scenes to bring you affordable information and seeds to create your own garden haven. Alongside writing articles for popular NZ gardening publications.
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