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cres A Focusing on Today’s Rural Environment
Volume 8, Edition 22
Delivering hope PHOTOS SUBMITTED
LeAnne Lund loads up the car to make deliveries to florists from Hope Blooms Flower Farm, where she raises her own cut flowers on her Grove City property.
Lund has mission to deliver beauty, recognition BY SARAH COLBURN | STAFF WRITER
GROVE CITY – Hundreds of flowers were delivered fresh to dozens upon dozens of folks who didn’t order them. Sending a surprise to teachers navigating COVID protocols, people in hospice care, volunteers at a local food shelf, in-patient treatment centers, volunteers crafting face masks for others, LeAnne Lund sees them all and rewards them all. It’s her mission at Hope Blooms Flower Farm in Grove City to bring beauty to those around her and those in need. “It’s so nice to see who’s doing things in our community and who needs to be recognized and who needs to be uplifted,” Lund said. “It’s the highlight of my business.” For Lund, giving to those in the community is a non-negotiable. It’s a model she built into her company from its inception in 2019 and it’s something she plans to continue. About 95 percent of the bouquets that go out Lund’s door are created from stems grown right on her property. In some cases, she partners with a few other local farms to swap product if there’s something she doesn’t grow.
Lund offers fresh cut flower arrangements for sale through the entire growing season, May through September; she also provides stems direct to florists. Additionally, she offers a subscription service where customers can sign up to receive five weeks of fresh-cut flower bouquets and for every subscription purchased, she creates the same number of additional bouquets to simply give away. “If I’m going to do this, I want to share that beauty, share that hope, that happiness, to be a bright light in a dark world,” she said. Lund researches the seeds, plants the seeds, hand sows the plants across two acres of her property, weeds them, cares for them, harvests them, bouquets them and hand-delivers the finished product. Every March through September, Lund can be found in her greenhouse and garden. She begins seeding in March in her small
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