About us
Sunny Jersey
Here in sunny Jersey at latitude 49o 10’ 30" North, we are the most southerly farm shop in the British Isles!
(The banner photo at the top of our site is La Rocque harbour, just down the road from the shop)
How to find us!
Click here to see a map of where we are.
From St Helier, take the Inner Road (A5) towards Fauvic. At the crossroads (left to Grouville Church), take the right towards La Rocque harbour (B37) and we are 100m up on the left hand side in La Rue au Long. On the coast road, we are sign posted from La Rocque harbour at the junction with La Rue du Pont.
From Gorey, take the coast road (A3) until Checkers garage on your left, turn right into Rue de Fauvic (A5) until you reach the crossroads (right to Grouville Church), take the left towards La Rocque harbour (B37) and we are 100m up on the left hand side in La Rue au Long.
See also Jersey Street Atlas map 65.
Opening Hours
Monday to Friday 7.30am to 7.00pm
Saturday and Sunday 7.30am to 6.00pm
Our garden department closes at 5pm every day (winter hours)
A bit of history
The story of Fauvic Nurseries, and Holme-Grown, began over 100 years ago when Stanley Payn’s great grandfather began growing outdoor tomatoes in the south-east corner of the island.
William Stanley Payn, the fourth generation of tomato growers in the family, spent several years at college and came back to the Island in 1969.
Between 1970 and 2003 12 ¾ acres of glass were built or bought to make Fauvic Nurseries the single largest tomato nursery on the island.
Fauvic Nurseries Today
Since the beginning of 2005, the nursery has been using gas boilers, as it is a cleaner burning fuel than oil, to supply heat and CO2 to the nursery. Fuel costs are high because of the extra freight charges involved with transport from mainland UK, but consumption is generally some 25% lower due to the mild climate. Most of our tomatoes are sent to UK supermarkets, but we save the best tomatoes to sell locally!
A full Integrated Pest Management system is in operation, predators having been used for some twenty years, and no chemicals have been used for the end of season clean up in the last eight years. All the tomatoes grown are guaranteed G. M. free.
We meet the British Retail Consortium ’Higher’ standard for food production and are audited members of Assured Produce.
Culinary Herbs and Salads: An awareness that the good light experienced in Jersey presents opportunities for extending crop production seasons led to a small trial on fresh cut herbs in 2000. The area has greatly expanded since then with an acre growing over 40 varieties for 2007-8. Most of the local supermarkets are now supplied with our flat packed and pot herbs and our range of mixed salads. All the varieties are grown in coco fibre enhanced soil or, for pot production, in compost. Supplementary winter lighting helps us to grow much of our range all year round. Full IPM pest control and the use of recycled tomato drain water for irrigation ensures that the production of the herbs and salads is as environmentally friendly as possible.
Environmental management: Fauvic Nurseries is committed to the care of the environment and has long supported sustainable practices of crop management.
Bio-diversity- An annual tree planting scheme uses Fauvic’s own seed raised trees to gap up hedges and create new areas of tree plantation.Wild flowers are encouraged around the reedbed and glasshouse margins to increase the biodiversity of these areas and encourage natural pest predators.
Waste management- Drain water is kept to a minimum, but any excess is fed into the reed bed that allows many of the remaining nutrients to be taken up by the reeds and micro flora within the reed bed system. Burnable waste products are used to produce electricity at Bellozanne. All green waste is turned into compost or ploughed back into the land. All other products are re-used or recycled wherever possible.
Holme-Grown
Holme-Grown started as a barrow on the farm gate, selling our tomatoes, herbs and salads by the roadside. As the range of things that we grew branched into cut flowers and other vegetables we built a small shop inside one of our glasshouses in March 2003. Since then the shop has gone from strength to strength, largely in response to favourable customer demand. Now, in 2007 we sell as much locally-grown fruit and vegetables as we can source, together with the fresh baked bread and milk, a wide selection of house and garden plants and garden accessories and other products that you expect from your local country store...plus a little bit more! See our product range ! We also have our own on-site cafe, ’Stanley’s’, and a wide selection of gifts and craftware.
NEW! Full Parish recycling facilities are now available in our carpark, with skips for batteries, cardboard, paper, plastic bottles and glass. Go on, be ’green’ and recycle!