and having so much fun outside," Christy recalled. The experience inspired her to start her own farm on her family's 12-acre property. Then, last November, on a business trip in North Carolina, Christy stopped at a pick-your-own flower farm where she saw how much the customers enjoyed not just the bouquets but rambling through fields of flowers.
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On a typical weekend, the girls earned $30 per bouquet from passing drivers - an impressive haul when compared with, say, a roadside lemonade stand. Last summer, the Feikers' daughters, Solveig, 13, and Astri, 11, asked their mother if they could sell bouquets of her cut zinnias and sunflowers at the end of their driveway on Church Hill Road in Charlotte. It was their school-age kids who first planted the seed of an idea that blossomed into the current family business.
Though ostensibly "sitting" for an interview, Feiker seemed like the kind of woman who doesn't stay in one spot for long.Ĭhristy and her husband, Knut, grew flowers as a hobby long before they ever considered doing it for a living. With a pair of fine-tipped scissors, Feiker delicately trimmed excess leaves from the stems and, within minutes, created a gorgeous bouquet of flowers she had picked just minutes before. Snapdragons, cosmos, bachelor buttons, marigolds, sunflowers and zinnias dotted the Charlotte meadow, with a view of the Green Mountains peeking through the trees behind her house. Astri Feiker smelling the flowers at her family's Glory Flower Farm in CharlotteĬhristy Feiker sat under an open-sided tent in a field bursting with colors.
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