NIFFA Forum

The NIFFA forum is for members, run by members. It is what we all make it! Everything on here should be related to the growing and selling of cut flowers or foliage. The forum is made up of categories. We have created only a few initially to get us started but will add more. (We did not want to overwhelm!!) Any member can create a post within any open category. For example: in 'Events' you could create a post detailing a live or online event which you think. Anyone can comment on posts adding more info or asking a question. You can @ another member to tag them , e.g. @NIFFA Admin (which is the secretary Aisling or tech help Adam!) There will inevitably be teething pains as this will be new for many folk. If you have any issues, please email hello@nigrownflowers.co.uk Please bare with us as we try to help you, we are a small voluntary team! There will be short tutorial immediately following the AGM on 7th March (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/niffa-agm-2023-tickets-556182736537) where we will hopefully answer some FAQs. Please have a look through the forum, leave a comment, write a post and then bring your feedback/questions on 7th March. We hope this forum will benefit us all in bringing together the wealth of knowledge that already exists, so we can share with each other and together build a strong cut flower/foliage industry here in NI!

Don't be a stranger, share a bio about yourself with why you got into cut flower growing, your favourite part of growing cut flowers, the biggest challenge you have found and any other inspirations or interesting facts about yourself. Oh and share a link to your website and/or social media too!

Hi, welcome 👋 These boards are to be used for info sharing, learnings and queries within our growing community as we are all growing in similar conditions and climate. NIFFA is a voluntary representative organisation and therefore we need all members to take ownership of how these forums are used. As part of that we ask you to therefore keep to the following guidelines: Keep it friendly Be courteous and respectful. Appreciate that others may have a different opinion from yours and thats ok. Stay on topic We have set up separate forums for specific areas so try to keep posts and conversations in the right topic for the board. This makes the resource easier to search back through for relevant information Share your knowledge I think we can all agree that we are not competing against each other but rather against a completely different product which is imported flowers. Therefore when one of us is doing well, we are all doing better so lets support and champion each other so we don't all need to make the same mistakes. So many of us are at different points in our growing cut flowers journey and so any advise and tips are invaluable! Refrain from demeaning, discriminatory or harassing behaviour and speech I really hope this will never be an issue but it still needs to be stated from the outset. There is a report function on posts if you feel something that has been said breaches this then click the report and we will be made aware of it and take down any posts deemed inappropriate.