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A little bit of spring right now - Store helps people surround themselves with greenery - Brown County Democrat
Sunday, February 10, 2019Saturday. They deliver in Nashville and outside of the area. Ironweed Flowers and Gifts is about surrounding yourself with flowers, plants and nature.The floral and gift shop, at 188 S. Jefferson St., opened last April. The building was previously home to the Village Florist.“Everything in here, I try to get flower-related. I love flowers and plants. I wanted it to be something different in Nashville. That’s what we’re trying for, something that maybe other shops don’t have. It’s a mixture of old and new,” owner Debbie Herring said.Herring and her family also own the Brown County Inn. She and her husband, Barry, moved to the county six years ago, but they have owned land for 22 years and built a cabin there. The family would come down on the weekends and for holidays before they moved here full time.Story continues below gallery #td_uid_2_5c60e3259d2b3 .td-doubleSlider-2 .td-item1{background:url(https://d1bdhkmqqz901h.cloudfront.net/80x60/smart/http://www.bcdemocrat.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2019/02/c2d8af83061f73e48e8c64a50573fa14-80x60.jpg) 0 0 no-repeat}#td_uid_2_5c60e3259d2b3 .td-doubleSlider-2 .td-item2{background:url(https://d1bdhkmqqz901h.cloudfront.net/80x60/smart/http://www.bcdemocrat.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2019/02/eda8b857a660f2db58a0f827404c086c-80x60.jpg) 0 0 no-repeat}#td_uid_2_5c60e3259d2b3 .td-doubleSlider-2 .td-item3{background:url(https://d1bdhkmqqz901h.cloudfront.net/80x60/smart/http://www.bcdemocrat.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/... http://www.bcdemocrat.com/2019/02/08/a_little_bit_of_spring_right_now_floral_shop_prides_itself_on_handpicked_customer_service/
Big changes are happening in Baton Rouge fastest growing neighborhood—and developers arent finished yet
Tuesday, October 16, 2018It’s real.”JOURNEY DOWN GOVERNMENT STREETA TOUR OF SOME OF THE PEOPLE, BUSINESSES AND EVENTS TELLING MID CITY’S STORY—FROM 1509 GOVERNMENT STREET ALL THE WAY TO 711 JEFFERSON HIGHWAYFor this month’s cover story, we’re taking you along Government Street, the thread that ties the community together. These are just a few of the businesses—both new and old—that call the area home. This tour is not all-encompassing, as there are so many more places and faces than we have room to highlight. What’s even better? Thinking about how much more is in store for Mid City.1509-2101 GOVERNMENT ST.ELECTRIC DEPOT1509 Government St.Rendering Courtesy Weinstein NelsonThe former Entergy site will soon be home to a bowling alley, music venue, restaurants, bars and office and retail space. Phase one wraps at the end of this year.—CIRCA 1857 COMPLEX1857 Government St.Photo by Malarie ZaunbrecherOpen here since: 2001A treasure trove of antiques and art, including The Market, The Guru and Mosaic Garden.—TY LARKINSOwner, Ty Larkins Interiors1948 Government St.img class="size-full wp-image-123788" src="https://d1dxs113ar9ebd.cloudfront.net/225batonrouge/2018/10/225TyLarkinInt_007_COLOR.jpg" alt width="6036" height="4024" srcset="https://d1dxs113ar9ebd.cloudfront.net/225batonrouge/2018/10/225TyLarkinInt_007_COLOR.jpg 6036w, https://d1dxs113ar9ebd.cloudfront.net/225batonrouge/2018/10/225TyLarkinInt_007_COLOR-300x200.jpg 300w, https://d1dxs113ar9ebd.cloudfront.net/225batonrouge/2018/10/225TyLarkinInt_007_COLOR-768x512.jpg 768w, https://d1dxs113ar9ebd.cloudfront.net/225batonrouge/2018/10/225T... https://www.225batonrouge.com/our-city/big-changes-happening-baton-rouges-fastest-growing-neighborhood-developers-arent-finished-yet
She drives a tiny flower truck, and business is blooming - CBC.ca
Tuesday, July 09, 2019Crawley said."I've had this in my dream box for quite a few years now and just decided that now is the time to put it into play." She has no formal training as a florist. A former stay-at home mom to her three children, she spent seven years working as a secretary at a local elementary school.After a string of family illnesses and mishaps last year, Crawley felt overwhelmed and craved change.Then she realized being a florist on the move was her dream job."You really try to sit back and try to figure out things that really make you tick, the things that you really love."If you could pick anything in the world to do, what would those things be? For a long time, it was really hard to make that list. "And then I came across that picture and I thought, 'You know what? I think I'm ready to try this.'" It just makes people smile, which was exactly what I needed.- Laura CrawleyShortly after, Crawley quit her steady job at the school, found the perfect tiny truck for sale in Lacombe, and hit the road. Selling flowers by the stem or bouquet out of her flatbed has been a challenge, Crawley said.She had to customize the truck's bed to ensure the flowers are well protected from the elements and don't wilt en route. Some varieties fare better on the road than others. But business appears to be blooming and it's a rewarding job. The perfect bloom bring can brighten a home or a bad mood, Crawley said. And that's why she got into the business. To spread a little happiness."It gives me more than I give to it," she said. "It just makes people smile, which was exactly what I needed and I think what everybody needs."... https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/edmonton-flower-truck-business-1.5197252
The Dutch Florist behind the Met’s Grandiose Bouquets - Artsy
Tuesday, July 09, 2019Dutch horticulture industry (famous for its tulips). His great-grandfather had grown flowers for a living, while his grandfather and father became florists. Van Vliet was raised in his father’s shop and began arranging flowers not by choice, but “out of obligation,” he remembered, with a laugh. “It’s kind of like being the son of a butcher or baker—you have to help out in the family business. So that’s what I did.” He spent the majority of his young life in the family store, arranging as many as 40 to 50 bouquets per day for locals and the occasional royal. Each small-ish arrangement took him around 10 minutes to assemble; he plucked flowers from a patchwork of buckets behind the counter as he went. When he wasn’t in the shop, Van Vliet immersed himself in art. (His grandfather, who’d painted and collected art on the side, had rubbed off on his grandson in this way, too.) In school, he learned painting, etching, watercolors, welding, and art history; he remembers at least two works from the Met’s collection showing up on his final exams. https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-dutch-florist-mets-grandiose-bouquets
Finding Balance With Florist - Stereogum
Tuesday, July 09, 2019Where do you go when you just wanna go? Where do you go when you let it all go?” Emily Sprague asks on a song from Florist’s third album, which was written as an escape — from life’s external pressures, from the constant buzzing inside your own mind. It’s an album that’s constantly looking for answers, for a headspace where it feels like everything will click into place. It’s an elusive search, but the quiet folk songs that Sprague makes offer room for calm contemplation. Each Florist album has had diaristic elements. Their first, The Birds Outside Sang, was partially self-recorded by Sprague in her bedroom after a bicycle accident that left her incapacitated; the closing track on their second album, If Blue Could Be Happiness, was a raw demo of a song that Sprague sent to her mom just a few days before she died. Emily Alone feels like the project’s most personal yet. Recorded alone during a few days last winter, the album is sparse and intimate — day-to-day meditations on what it means to be by yourself, what it sounds like in the metaphysical dark place inside your mind. “I write and I read, I sp... https://www.stereogum.com/2048286/florist-emily-alone-interview/franchises/interview/
Local florists urge consumers to beware of online flower resellers - WNYT
Tuesday, July 09, 2019Longhitano says it works like this: You search florists on-line and order from one you think is local, but your order is going to a place out of the area to someone who doesn't know flowers, then they take their cut before forwarding the order to another middle man, who finally sends it on to a local florist for fulfilling."They're literally just there to take your order and after that they have nothing to do with it," said Longhitano. Monica Jacobs of Queensbury knows it all too well."I learned a big lesson. I definitely learned a big lesson. I will never do that again."Jacobs ordered flowers through an order gatherer for an out of town funeral, but they never arrived."And I was like, 'Oh no!' I couldn't believe that I spent over $100 thinking they were going to get this beautiful arrangement and they didn't even receive it," said Jacobs. "So, I was mortified."Longhitano says consumers with an issue have to talk to order gatherers and have no contact with the local florist who is fulfilling the order.Becau... https://wnyt.com/news/queensbury-florist-urges-consumers-to-be-aware-of-on-line-flower-resellers-who-serve-as-order-takers/5331850/
Community blossoms at Princeton's Vaseful Flowers and Gifts - Community News Service
Tuesday, July 09, 2019The aim is eventually to hire 12 employees with disabilities at the store, all under the watchful eye of a program manager, Nicole Young, and a professional florist, Kathleen Angelinovich.Above, employees at work in the store, which plans to hire a total of 12 employees with disabilities.Kanjani works at the shop five days a week, from Monday to Friday, as a floral trainee. He called working there “pretty good” and said his duties include feeding the flowers, putting them in vases, and sweeping the floors. Jose Saez, another employee, felt it was exciting to be a part of a new business.Employees work part-time, 20 hours a week, and get paid at the state minimum wage. Their tasks run the gamut, like working the cash register, keeping the store clean, and making deliveries — all intended to build job skills that they can take to their next employer.“This is a stepping stone for them, so we’re looking for them to gain competitive employment outside of here,” Young said. “So this is their training ground. This is where it all gets started. This is where they get the taste of what employment is.”They work with the flowers too, said Angelinovich, who has spent 30 years in the flower business. Before this job, she was a floral manager for a ShopRite in Neptune.“They’re learning about processing the flowers, cutting them, hydrating them, the different names, different varieties,” she said. “I think for me walking into this, it was a flower shop, but it was so much more. It was just so much more of an opportunity for me to get to do this and get a sense of purpose.”Community Options purchased the current Vaseful site five years ago and first used it as temporary offices. Stack said his vision was always to make it a flower store, a step that required getting a variance from the town and renovating the building.At a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the store’s grand opening on June 5, state Senate President Stephen M. Sweeney said he was proud of his adult daughter, Lauren, who has Down syndrome and loves her job at a daycare center. In 2018 the unemployment rate nationally for the disabled was 8 percent, compared to 3.7 percent for those without a disability, the federal government reported earlier this year.“Giving people with disabilities an opportunity to gain employment matters a great deal because people with disabilities have the ability to work,” he said. “Really looking beyond the disability and looking (at) what the person is able to do is critically important to get people with disabilities into the working world.”The store gets its flowers from local wholesalers and is home to 20 varieti... https://communitynews.org/2019/07/01/community-blossoms-at-princetons-vaseful-flowers-and-gifts/
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