What’s been going on!
Betsy says that I need to bring home a good bottle of Champagne tomorrow after I deliver. We are generally not celebrators of things, you know birthdays, anniversaries, holidays and the like but this occasion seems worth marking. Tomorrow will be Betsy’s and Peregrine Farm’s last delivery of wholesale flowers.
For 29 years, since they opened their doors, Betsy has grown flowers and made bouquets and growers bunches for Weaver Street Market. In the early years we were the entire floral department and would deliver from late April up into the fall. We also delivered to three Whole Food stores and various florists but gave them up years ago as we began to concentrate more of our efforts on the Farmers’ Market. That was a lot of bouquet making for sure.
As part of our transition plan for the farm we are reducing Betsy’s workload and schedule. That means no wholesale flowers and only growing flowers for the market. Betsy has harvested every flower that has ever come off the farm for 31 years; that is a lot of wear and tear and time. We think she deserves a break and someone else to pick some of those flowers.
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She is not quite done picking flowers yet though, Celosia and Lisianthus
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