This week’s Islander of the Week is Francis Hoskin. Francis was born in St Buryan but now lives at Trenoweth Farm on St. Mary’s where he farms flowers. He is one of the successful flower farmers on the islands and is one of St. Martins’ Scillyflowers.co.uk by post main suppliers. He won 3 awards and 3 cups at the West Cornwall Flower Show this year.
He has been married to Christine (see above) for 33 years something he says he thinks he deserves a gold medal for! They have one daughter who lives and works on the mainland.
Although he says his hobbies are “Work and work” he also takes photos for some of Scilly’s websites like Scillywebcam.com and Scilly News. His photography is something he takes seriously: “Some of my pictures are being published in the October issue of sailing today magazine out in September.”
Francis loves “the peace and quite lovely sunsets and sunrises (on Scilly) but dislikes the “transport problems.”