The company behind one of Jersey’s best-known farm shops has taken the next step towards liquidation.
Creditors of Fauvic Nurseries Limited, which traded as Holme Grown, have been called to a meeting at the business’s premises next month where they will be asked to vote on a resolution to wind up the company.
They will also consider a statement on the company’s affairs, appoint joint liquidators to oversee the process and discuss how the company’s assets should be distributed.
If approved, Adrian Rabet and Clive Fortis, of Begbies Traynor (Jersey), will be appointed as joint liquidators.
End of an era
The meeting follows the closure of Holme Grown’s Grouville farm shop and café earlier this year, with around 20 jobs lost.
The Hospice shop at the site remains open.
Announcing the closure, owner Stanley Payn described the decision as “heart-breaking” after more than two decades of trading.
He blamed planning delays and the failure of several redevelopment proposals for leaving the business no longer financially viable.
“I feel I’ve had my legs cut off by the planning system,” he said at the time.
Years of redevelopment plans
In recent years, Mr Payn had put forward a number of proposals aimed at securing Holme Grown’s future.
They included plans for a 50-bed care home, a medicinal cannabis growing facility and changes linked to the Hospice shop.
The care home application was refused, while the cannabis proposal received Planning Committee approval in 2023 but ultimately failed to secure ministerial sign-off, with the proposed grower later withdrawing from the project.
Mr Payn previously said delays to the Hospice shop application proved the “final straw” after years of trying to diversify the business.
The creditors’ meeting will be held at Holme Grown at 12pm on Friday 10 July.
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