US: 24-year-old turns passion for flowers into a career
“I spent yesterday transplanting,” she said recently. “This is after two showers. It doesn’t want to come out.”
An occupational hazard for a flower farmer.
The 24-year-old sits in a booth at Java Junction in Brockport. Her loft apartment, where she has a patio garden and seeding supplies lining her hallway, is upstairs.
Siplo founded Flowerwell Flower Farm and Design Co. in 2015 after leaving a high-pressure job that required a lot of travel. She’d spent two years dreading work each morning, then fantasizing between job responsibilities about what flowers she wanted to plant next and what she wanted to do with them.
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