05/23/2024
If you need plants think of Thanksgiving Farms first!
Edit: making post at 6pm on Wednesday May 22. Omg! Darby just filled me in! First, many thanks for the support! ❤️ Second, we are not closing the business. I should have been more specific. When I say I’m “going to close a greenhouse” I mean I’m going to empty it for the season. I apologize profusely for any and all confusion. We are and will remain open daily, 9-5pm. I have 20 growhouses (customers are not allowed in them and they are hidden down a hill. I want to get all remaining plants out and on display, the part of the garden center you see when visiting. With the 20 houses closed, we don’t have to water and it will save 8 hours of someone watering. With that freed up then I can not worry about my plants. I should have been more specific. We still need to sell the plants.
Last year when we found out Brian’s cancer had returned, I made a promise to walk my best friend to heaven’s gate. If you have seen me at the garden center and wondering why I’m frantically hauling plants out of the greenhouse. I’m literally fighting against time. Brian’s farewell is coming soon. I want, I need, to be with him. However, I have to get my greenhouses emptied. I won’t be on Facebook today or tomorrow. Our eldest son is graduating from Frostburg. Our middle son graduated from FCC last week. This will be our last family event. I want to give it all my attention. This will also be a challenging trip due to Brian’s condition. I will need all my energy. Please call the farm if you have a dire question. I won’t be checking FB regularly. I will be back Thursday evening. This weekend I need to hustle to get my greenhouses emptied. That means we need to move a lot of plants. If you know of anyone that needs flowers please send them our way. I have to take care of my obligations at the farm, plants have always come first, before I can solely concentrate on my husband. I’m logging off now. This trip will take everything I got. Thank you for understanding my personal journey as I walk my best friend to peace from cancer.
Edit: thank you for the messages to offer help with moving plants. ❤️ You’ll are AMAZING! I’m okay on labor to move them out. What I really need is to sell them. I just didn’t want to say that because it sounds awful/horrible/greedy. Just disgusting. The reason is not money. It’s just that due to our watering system. We can only have two people water at a time or the pumps burn up. Melanie has to come in at 2am to water the display greenhouses. Then a girl waters the growhouses and other waters the outside displays areas. I need to empty the growhouses so we can solely concentrate on the display areas. If I’m not there then Darby would be alone. We always want two sisters at the farm at the same time. It’s confusing but it works if there are 3 sisters there at a time. Its not fair to let the work load fall on only 2.
