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New Rochester dessert shop infuses artisan creativity with flowers - The Times

Fin items at select events. The business also ships wholesale orders of specialty salts and sugars in containers called "wands," as in magic wands."But I'm excited to be able to have a real bakery, and have stuff in a case, and not limited to custom orders," she said. Rice's career path took a detour before she became a baker.She majored in English in college, "but ever since I graduated, I didn't want to do anything with my degree." So she enrolled in pastry school instead, graduating in 2017."After that, I worked at Beaver Bagel, La Gourmandine, Herban Touch, and was the head baker at the Butterwood Bake Consortium in Lawrenceville. I have experience in production kitchens, working as a line cook, and leading a small team of bakers at a dessert cafe."When she became pregnant with daughter Violette, "I decided to take the leap and go out on my own."Baby Violette has been nearby as Rice and Vernon have prepared last-minute touches to their storefront. You can sample Flower and Fin goodies ahead of time when they do another pop-up from 6 to 8 p.m. Saturday... https://www.timesonline.com/story/entertainment/local/2020/10/28/flower-and-fin-new-dessert-shop-opens-rochester/5990553002/

How this company saved thousands of flowers during the pandemic - Business Insider - Business Insider

Today, we actually chose just to do a plant sale. And so we have lots of plants, various candles, pots people can pair with.Narrator: Local artists, ceramicists, bakers, and fellow florists also sold their products from socially distant booths. Lauren: We invited pretty much just everyone we know.Customer: It's a thing to go to right now, when we're not able to go to a lot of places. I got some dried flowers.Rachel: Something we probably would love to do ordinarily, but have never really had the time for it. Suddenly we have the time for it. We wanted to make it happen.Narrator: The team has also started hosting floral-arrangement classes and making bouquets for micro weddings.Lauren: Over here, we're working on some centerpieces for a wedding. More classic white and green, but hints of blue and blush. So that's really pretty.Rachel: I use a mirror so I can kind of see what it looks like to someone viewing.Narrator: Despite all these efforts, Sweet Root Village is still facing huge losses.Lauren: We are still at an 80% revenue deficit and don't expect...Rachel: To recoup much of that.Narrator: Luckily for Lauren and Rachel, 96% of couples are planning on postponing, not canceling their weddings.Lauren: We're hopeful that our spring season can move forward as planned. But we're just kind of taking it one day at a time. We've scaled our business to be the size we are now. Stay small to weather the storm. That's my advice.Rachel: Considering way... https://www.businessinsider.com/how-va-wedding-florist-saved-thousands-flowers-during-pandemic-2020-10

Local florist spreads cheer by delivering flowers throughout Kern County - KERO 23ABC News

BAKERSFIELD,Calif. — Jami Graham, the owner of the White Oaks Florist shop is bringing cheer by delivering free flowers to essential workers throughout Kern County.Since the COVID-19 outbreak, Graham has closed her doors and is offering curbside, delivery, phone, and online ordering services.Graham has also made heartbreaking decisions regarding her staff."We let ten of them go, when we got the notice that non-essential businesses needed to close," Graham said. "I just assumed that we were non-essential and we wouldn’t get the orders. Now, there is this gray area and we are uncertain if we are essential."According to Graham, her shop may be deemed essential because floral industries could fall under the food and agriculture category.Now, they are waiting for the health department's decision."Once we have that clearance we will move forward, whether it’s closing our doors completely and shutting down; or we will continue doing what we are doing," Graham said.Despite the whirlwind change... https://www.turnto23.com/news/only-on-23abc/local-flower-shop-spreads-cheer-by-delivering-flowers-throughout-kern-county

'Always in Bloom,' flowers 'Blossom' for moms, 'Eden' during a pandemic - Sippican Week

In Mattapoisett, Holly Turner of Blossoms said she hasn’t adjusted the store’s hours like many other small businesses have. The owner “figured we were done” after Governor Baker’s closure of non-essential businesses, but noticed that people were still calling for orders.After closing four days, Turner opened back up for curbside pickup, this time with the help of her daughter Holyn and their new “manager” Lexi, the family’s border collie.Turner said that the phone has been ringing constantly for Mother’s Day orders, especially because her daughter has helped promote the shop on social media while not doing schoolwork.Like Turner, Monteiro’s daughter has also helped bring in new customers with Instagram and Facebook. The marketing will also help for Mother’s Day, the holiday that she said is the “mother of them all” for florists.Customers have appreciated both florists during this time, and the feeling is mutual.“They’re thanking me, when I’m thankful for them,” said Turner.Braga said that “people are so happy and grateful” that they can buy herbs and vegetables from her shop because customers are eager to be outside in their gardens. https://sippican.theweektoday.com/article/%E2%80%98always-bloom%E2%80%99-flowers-%E2%80%98blossom%E2%80%99-moms-%E2%80%98eden%E2%80%99-during-pandemic/47776

Middletown family florist: Mother dies 6 days after daughter’s death - Hamilton Journal News

She died of natural causes, her brother said. Her visitation and service were held Saturday.Now the florist family is planning another service.Funeral services are pending for Melinda at Baker-Stevens-Parramore Funeral Home.Melinda's husband, James Armbruster, owner of the business that was established in 1945 and a former city council member, died in 2010. He was 66. A 5.8-acre nature preserve in Middletown is named after the Armbruster family.Melinda is survived by two sons, Jim II and Matthew, and grandchildren.Despite the deaths, Matthew Armbruster said the business remains open and will continue serving the community for generations.“We haven’t skipped a beat and we’re not going to,” he said.He has received condolences from florists throughout the tri-state, he said.“The outpouring from the entire community has just been so overwhelming,” he said. https://www.journal-news.com/news/local/middletown-family-florist-mother-dies-days-after-daughter-death/VQINewRxtNKtHOlqOAEruM/

Business at local flower grower Three Little Buds is blooming - My Buckhannon

Three Little Buds owner Joanna Webb, who is a chemistry professor at West Virginia Wesleyan College, talked to My Buckhannon from her beautiful gardens, located around her home in downtown Buckhannon.Webb said this is her fourth official growing season, but she has been growing flowers for a long, long time. She said her husband jokingly told her she could not grow any more flowers until she took part of her bounty to a local florist to see if they would be interesting in purchasing some of her blossoms.A market-style bouquet of flowers grown and arranged by local flower grower Joanna Webb. / Photo courtesy Joanna Webb“I had always kicked around the idea of selling flowers to local florists,” Webb said. “So, I took some of my dahlias to Anita’s Flowers of Buckhannon, and they told me they would love to buy local flowers.”She said she learned on the fly about growing flowers and started growing ones she found most beautiful.“I like the market bouquet-style of flowers,” Webb said. “With COVID coming in when most of the flowers were blooming, most of the florists were closed, and I had all of these flowers,... https://www.mybuckhannon.com/business-at-local-flower-grower-three-little-buds-is-blooming/

Tulip Fest had to be canceled, but Wooden Shoe Tulip Farm finds new life for flowers - OregonLive

Family members set up a farm stand, sold a few flowers, and figured they’d be forced to let the rest rot.The family then received an email from a West Virginia nursery owner who had an idea and wanted to pass it along to nurseries across the country. The idea: Take flowers in the fields to assisted living centers where residents were living in isolation.Emily Iverson, 21, a family member and Wooden Shoe’s social media coordinator, teamed up with Lexie Criscola, 22, the tulip farm’s marketing coordinator, to make it happen.They created a ticket order on the farm’s web page where, for $15, people could pay for a pot of tulips to be delivered anonymously to an assisted living center.So far, the farm has delivered 6,000 pots of tulips to assisted living centers in Mount Angel, Molalla, Canby, Albany and Eugene.“The farm will never see back the lost revenue from the festival,” said Iverson. “The $15 covers just a bit of the costs it takes to do this delivery. But this is not about money, this is about goodwill.”Criscola said a person can request tulips be delivered to a specific assisted living center or let farm officials figure out where the tulips would bring a bit of joy.“We reach out to a center and figure out the protocol for a delivery,” she said. “We make sure everyone in the center gets a pot. We deliver them to the front door, and then step back.”Iverson estimates all the tulips will be given away within the next couple weeks.“It makes us feel like we are doing something for the community,” she said.[embedded content]-... https://www.oregonlive.com/hg/2020/03/tulip-fest-had-to-be-canceled-but-wooden-shoe-tulip-farm-finds-new-life-for-flowers.html

Feed the soul: In chaotic times, gardening becomes therapy - Sentinel & Enterprise

The virus scare could even usher in a new crop of gardeners who start from seed rather than risk the crowds buying starter plants.Kendra Schilling of Scott Depot, West Virginia, doesn’t have space for a sprawling garden, so she’s planting potatoes in a bucket and trying to figure out with her teenage daughter what to do with other vegetable seeds.“I usually go buy the plants and stick them in the dirt. But this year we’re going to try to do the seeds,” she says. “Thank God for YouTube.”___Associated Press writer Frank Jordans in Berlin contributed to this report. https://www.sentinelandenterprise.com/2020/03/31/feed-the-soul-in-chaotic-times-gardening-becomes-therapy/

The Gardeners Who Planted for US Presidents - Prescott eNews

Bush.) When Rachel "Bunny" Mellon and Perry Wheeler designed the Rose Garden for President Kennedy, they handpicked Williams as their horticulturist to supervise the installation. The son of a West Virginia f... https://www.prescottenews.com/index.php/features/columnists/mountain-gardener/item/34856-the-gardeners-who-planted-for-u-s-presidents