Didier and Christine Hellio's Farm Shop

Wow! What a year! Whether you bought one of our Christmas trees or simply a bag of sprouts; we want to thank you so much for supporting our small business through 2021. Thank you especially to all the customers who kept us going through the busy festive period with cakes and bottles of wine. We may have opened just one...or two...
Merry Christmas 🎅 and we hope to see you next year in 2022 🎇

Morning all and happy Christmas eve!

We still have plenty of fresh veg ready for your Christmas dinner, including big bags of spuds, parsnips, carrots and of course, sprouts!!!

See you all later! 🎅

Our Nordmann Christmas trees have arrived and Father Christmas has joined us to make sure you're on the "nice" list this year! 🎅 Christine isn't sure if Didier will ever make it onto the "nice" list, but we shall see!

Here are our prices, which are the same as last year despite the other "C" word!

🎄 4ft - £28
🎄5ft - £36
🎄6ft - £48
🎄7 ft - £58
🎄8ft - £69

La Robeline Cider and Sausages will be joining us on 12 and 19 December with their wood fire roasts and other Genuine Jersey treats (and they are here today too if you're planning a visit!)

And just like that, pumpkin season is over! Thank you to everyone who visited us, including the nurseries and the schools.

We have had so much fun over the last few weeks and we have loved seeing all of your photos of your pumpkins 🎃

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And now we turn to Christmas! As usual, we'll be selling Christmas trees. We'll confirm pricing and available sizing soon! Please also follow our friends at La Robeline Cider and Sausages for more info on roasts and other goodies that they'll be offering over the next few weeks at the farm!

Wow, we think that was our busiest ever weekend! Special thanks go to La Robeline Cider and Sausages for keeping everyone fed and watered.

Don't worry, Christine had her prosecco intake over the weekend and we're ready to go again for half term 🥂

We still have lots of pumpkins left and we're looking forward to seeing you! 🎃🎃🎃

Two posts in one day, we know... But this one is for a brilliant cause!

We have donated some of Christine's favourite hand-picked pumpkins to Jen for her fundraising efforts and you can win any of them for just a £1 raffle ticket! 🤯

Please follow the link below to buy tickets - good luck! 🤞

https://www.facebook.com/102867382171562/posts/115823104209323/?d=n

🎃🎃HALLOWEEN PUMPKIN RAFFLE!🎃🎃

JERSEY RESIDENTS ONLY!

I have been gifted an array of pumpkins by the lovely Christine from Hellio’s farm shop in St Ouen. These are going to be raffled this Saturday (23rd October) to raise money for Cancer Research UK towards my Marathon year target!
Do you have a little one at home who might like to win……..
🎃1st prize: a huge, white ‘ghost’ pumpkin
🎃2nd prize: a basket of mini pumpkins
🎃3rd prize: a large orange pumpkin
🎃4th prize: a ‘cheeky’ pumpkin (looks a bit like a bottom!)
It’s £1 per ticket, and you can buy as many tickets as you like. You can buy your tickets online by donating directly to my fundraising page- the link is below.
If you’re a lucky winner, I will personally deliver your pumpkin to you on Saturday afternoon! 🎃🎃

https://fundraise.cancerresearchuk.org/page/jens-50th-marathon-year

Morning all!

We still have lots of pumpkins left and this weekend our friends La Robeline Cider and Sausages will be joining us to serve their incredible pork rolls and cider.

So come down and get your pumpkins, your veg and have a drink (we are sure those with kids will need one, with half term coming up!)

See you soon!

Christine & Dids 🎃

It's October, you know what that means... HALLOWEEN! 🎃

Christine the witch (Christine's alter ego - see photos below of our "beautiful" witch carved by Jaycee!) has LOTS of pumpkins of all shapes and colours ready for you to carve!

Here's some important info for your visit -

🎃 we don't have a card machine, so please bring CASH only (yes, we are in the dark ages here in St Ouen!)

🎃 parking is straight through the yard towards the sheds. Please drive straight through so we can keep everything clear for everyone picking their pumpkins.

🎃 once carved, pumpkins will only last a week so please bear that in mind once you start carving!

🎃 the farm may look a little different to normal, as we've been busy decorating for Halloween... 👀

And of course, we have loads of fresh veg as usual! Christine the witch looks forward to seeing you soon... 👻

You may have seen our very open and honest interview in the JEP today.

We are so proud of our amazing workers, whether it's our employees who have become family after 25+ years, our recent Filipino employees who are so kind or our own family members working their annual leave at Christmas.

We all work together extremely hard in the fields and we will always continue to supply our beautiful island with the freshest veg we can.

We hope all of our customers and friends have had a wonderful Christmas and let's hope for better times in 2021!

Thank you so much for supporting us and our farm over the last year and we look forward to seeing everyone again soon 🍾

📸Bam Perspectives - Jersey

We have one Christmas tree left and it's a big one... And no, it won't fit in Christine's house!

12.5ft for £240 - let us know if this is the one for you!

After Father Christmas heard that Christine and Didier were a bit worse for wear after Didier's 60th, he decided to send us two new employees straight from the North Pole to join the farm!

We still have some Christmas trees left. As a reminder:

🎄4 ft £28
🎄5 ft £36
🎄6ft £48
🎄7ft £58
🎄8ft £69

We are happy to accept cash or bank transfer. We can deliver to St Ouen, St Mary or St Peter. Looking forward to seeing you 🎅

📸 by Dave Ferguson

Uh oh... 🥳

Hello you lovely lot! Our beautiful Christmas trees have arrived! ☃️🎅

Please see below for prices and sizes:
🎄4 ft £28
🎄5 ft £36
🎄6ft £48
🎄7ft £58
🎄8ft £69

Looking forward to seeing all of you - watch out for Christine with the mistletoe! 😘

We're quickly coming up to Christine and Didier's one day off a year... Christmas! Our Nordmann Christmas trees are arriving at the end of the month.

Lots of different sizes, we'll post more details including price closer to the time! 🎄

It's a little bit windy up here in St Ouen, but this weekend is the perfect time to buy and carve your pumpkins in readiness for Halloween! 🎃

We also have spooky yellow carrots on sale (Didier's little accident!) - they taste lovely, just a little bit sweeter than your orange ones 🥕

And we have our friends La Robeline Cider and Sausages here this weekend too! 🍏🐖

Hello! It's that time again - it's pumpkin season! 🤪

Despite tougher weather conditions this year, we have LOTS of pumpkins of all shapes and sizes! We have yellow, green, white and of course orange ones!

And here's the important info -
🎃 We are open every day, until about 4.30/5ish.
🎃 Please bring cash, as we do not take card.
🎃 Please park near the top of the farm, to leave plenty of space for everyone else (and our tractors!)
🎃 This is our busiest time of the year (yep, more than Christmas!), so please bear with us, with getting change, replying to messages etc.

And lastly, a big thank you for sticking with us and keeping an eye on Christine and Didier over the last few months! We are VERY grateful for your support 💚🚜

Hi everyone - hope all of our customers and friends are keeping well and healthy. We are getting a lot of messages re: deliveries, unfortunately we have too much on our hands already to offer home deliveries. We are really sorry! Thank you so much to everyone for practicing social distancing when they visit - most people sit in their cars and wait so that there isn’t more than two people at the shop at one time, and everyone is bringing correct change, so THANK YOU! Stay healthy everyone. X

Hi everyone - it's Didier and Christine's daughter here, Natalie.

My parents are, as they always have done, working around the clock to make sure everyone has all the fresh veg they need, and we really appreciate people thinking of us to get their veg. For the benefit of all of our customers, we just want to remind everyone to practice social distancing when they come and get their veg at the shop. We want the farm to be comfortable for everyone to visit when they get their veg, and social distancing is currently the best way to guarantee this. At this time, correct change is also greatly appreciated (but of course, not necessary).

Thanks again everyone - my parents will no doubt be working hard all of next week to make sure the shop, and the local food halls, are stocked up with their veg.

Merry Christmas to all of our customers! Thank you for your support and custom, it is very much appreciated and we look forward to seeing you in 2020! 🌲🎅❤️

Happy Christmas from the Hellio’s! This year we are kitted out in our Xmas jumpers. We still have loads of produce left (including fresh parsley grown on the farm which we’ve been told is sold out at lots of shops!). See you tomorrow for any last minute bits! 🥕🥦🥬🥔🧅

We are in full Xmas mode here at the farm! We have all the veg you need for the big day next week - and the whole family is on hand to help. We hope to see you! 😊

🌲🌲🌲After the pumpkin madness, it's now time for CHRISTMAS TREES! 🌲🌲🌲

Our Christmas trees have now arrived and we're ready to help you pick one!

Each tree is a Nordmann Fir and ranges from 4ft to 8ft. We can pack the tree in a net for you but unfortunately due to how busy we are, we cannot deliver.

As always, we accept cash or cheque. Looking forward to seeing you! 🎅

Last minute pumpkin shopping?! These are the ones we’ve handpicked this morning, still loads to choose from! Thanks to all our customers who have visited us for their pumpkins - your custom and loyalty means a lot. 🎃

Happy Friday everyone! Looking forward to seeing everyone this weekend 😁 We've had a couple of questions recently:

1) Yes, we do have LOTS of pumpkins left, of all shapes, sizes and prices; and

2) All of our pumpkins are grown by us, completely locally in St Ouen. We don't buy any of our pumpkins in and each one is planted, tended and picked by us!

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More pumpkin updates - the Kids Rock page have got some great shots of all the different boxes of pumpkins we sell 🎃 the smaller pumpkins seem to be super popular for decorations! For those that don’t want to carve, why don’t you use marker pens, glitter, or paint to decorate your pumpkins 🎃

How amazing are these?! And the mini pumpkins are just 60p EACH!! Head up to Didier and Christine Hellio's Farm Shop to get your pumpkins ASAP! 🎃

Soooo guys, you know when we said we have loads of pumpkins... these are just the pumpkins we picked today! Your regular orange ones, small orange, small white, biiiig white ones, knobbly orange ones, knobbly orange ones with black bits. 🎃

Come and choose your pumpkin! We have all our usual fresh veg on sale as well.

🎃🎃🎃 PUMPKINS! It’s our favourite time of year - we have every kind of pumpkin under the sun for you to come and choose! Looking forward to seeing you!

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Ps. These little ladies were helping us out moving the pumpkins from the field to the farm. We unfortunately can’t allow access to pick the pumpkins directly from the field for health and safety reasons!

We only went and won the award for Ambassador of the Year at the Pride of Jersey Awards! Not sure what was more of a shock - winning or Christine and Didier having to dress up!

Thank you so much for your votes and in particular to John Garton. It is so lovely to be nominated and win! 🍾🎉

Pride of Jersey Awards

Christine and Didier are very honoured to have been nominated by the wonderful John Garton as Ambassadors of the Year for the Pride of Jersey Awards. This was a huge surprise and in all honesty, we just love doing what we do in our beautiful island!

If you would like, you can vote for us (along with many other incredible people) here:

https://www.prideofjersey.com/award-categories

prideofjersey.com

Merry Christmas to all of our lovely customers, old and new! Thank you so much for another year’s custom, we will see you all in the New Year! 🥂

The whole family is here, come and get your Christmas veg and a kiss from Christine! 🥕🥔😁