Augusta County family members opens their farm and new retail store to the community

AUGUSTA COUNTY, Va. (WHSV) – Business enterprise is booming and blooming at relatives-operated Harmony Harvest Farm in Augusta County. The farm is now open up for the initially time for the public to investigate.

In the early 2010s, Jessica Hall and Chris Auville obtained the 20-acre farm in Weyers Cave, later selecting a flower advisor to figure out the very best way to switch their enthusiasm into a organization.

“I explained, ‘Jess, in which do florists get flowers?’ and she explained ‘I can do that.’ I reported, ‘You can do what?’ She explained, ‘I can expand flowers’ and I claimed, ‘Can you provide them?’” Chris Auville mentioned.

From there, the flower eyesight began for the trifecta, mom Chris Auville, and sisters Jessica Hall and Stephanie Duncan.

“We started carrying out weddings and situations for our local community and to our regional florists,” Auville reported. “We ended up performing some bouquets for Full Foods.”

Harmony Harvest Farm afterwards turned to ship flowers correct from their fields to consumers.

“We had been shipping and delivery them to floral designers throughout the region that were doing weddings and occasions, we ended up performing blended bouquets to Entire Foodstuff up and down the East Coastline. Items were being going nicely and then as we all know, COVID hits.”

Situations arrived to a halt, and small business switched gears to use flowers to join persons at house. Harmony Harvest Farm commenced generating “Happy Bins,” which provided bouquets and coloring sheets for persons to do at household.

With this kind of a great reaction from the neighborhood about the “Happy Boxes,” Auville reported they knew the next factor to do was to open up the farm and the Farm Shop up to the Shenandoah Valley community, which formally opened in mid-July.

“Our home is beautiful and we required a area wherever folks could appear and, of course, of system, store flowers, but just working experience this lifestyle that we have been developing,” Stephanie Duncan explained.

Inside the Farm Store, you will uncover fresh bouquets, objects from regional artisans, and flower frogs.

“Yes, most people always asks what a flower frog is and I have no challenge paying out the rest of my life telling men and women what they are,” Duncan reported. “Flower frogs, in brief, are a sustainable option to floral foam, which places microplastics…