Claire Cranston

A lot of people have asked us recently, “What actually is Peachy Pastures?” And the truth is, we’ve really had to think hard about this question. Believe it or not, it’s not a business plan that started with branding boards or strategy meetings (lol). It started during half-finished cups of coffee on the sofa, in interrupted conversations in our kitchen, and through conversations about the kind of upbringing we want our children to have. We are a young family trying to raise children who feel...

Now he's earning £500 for his first 3D printer. One planter at a time. A few weeks ago, our four-year-old came to us and said he wanted to start his own business. He wanted to sell planters. Real ones. To real people! Let me rewind…This idea hadn’t come out of nowhere, and as a mum, we become pretty good at working out where our children’s wild and whacky ideas come from. A few days earlier, we’d been out on a walk and bumped into some children on our street running a little stall. They were...