Over a decade ago, Christy Moline of Fountain City and her mother had a dream bloom in their minds. The duo wanted to start a flower farm after seeing a sign for one while driving along a country road. Moline’s mother was diagnosed with cancer before their flower farm dream could come to fruition, though, and she passed away from the disease in 2017.
But the dream of flower farming did not die with her. “It was really one of those things where I still wanted to do it, but to do it without her was just a really hard thought,” Moline said. Moline’s husband convinced her to not give up on making the farm a reality, though.
He told her that her mother would have wanted her to start one anyway. “So that's what we did,” Moline said. Meadowsweet Flower Farm owner Christy Moline poses for a photo with her flowers in June.
Moline, with the help of her family, started growing large beds of flowers in 2021 on the family's hobby farm, starting the journey of Meadowsweet Flower Farm. The first year, she said, was just focused on figuring out how to grow and operate the business. From there, it has blossomed.
Moline has powered through many challenges, like deer and rabbits in the flower beds, the impact of weather, figuring out how to grow the business' popularity and more. “I feel like finally now we're kind of getting the vision for what we want our farm to be," Moline said. Christy Moline takes care of flowers at Meadowsweet Flower Farm in June.
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