{"id":192414,"date":"2025-06-17T19:04:08","date_gmt":"2025-06-17T19:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/192414\/"},"modified":"2025-06-17T19:04:08","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T19:04:08","slug":"surrey-lavender-farm-finds-weeding-quite-difficult-since-brexit-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/192414\/","title":{"rendered":"Surrey lavender farm finds weeding &#8216;quite difficult&#8217; since Brexit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ms Maye says her farm in Banstead, which is open to visitors, grows its lavender organically, so relies on workers to manually weed its crops.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We weed 140,000 plants by hand so that it&#8217;s beautifully manicured, so that people do want to visit a lavender farm,&#8221; the farmer told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sounds\/play\/live\/bbc_radio_surrey\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BBC Radio Surrey<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Since Brexit, getting workers to come in has been quite difficult because of the visas that have been required now to bring people in.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ms Maye added that sponsoring visas was &#8220;hugely expensive&#8221; and there &#8220;aren&#8217;t as many workers that want to come over&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said: &#8220;It&#8217;s always a bit touch and go whether we manage to get everything weeded in time for the season starting.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ms Maye says her farm in Banstead, which is open to visitors, grows its lavender organically, so relies&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":192415,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5226],"tags":[802,748,2000,299,5187,1699,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-192414","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brexit","8":"tag-brexit","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-eu","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-european","13":"tag-european-union","14":"tag-great-britain","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114700266630045515","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192414\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}