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Amber & Mark Saldana served out Nation for many years in the military. Now they’re both retired and bringing cut flowers in Lauderdale County.
Thomas Capps
Cut flower business blossoming in Lauderdale County. Hello and welcome to Tennessee Home and Farm Radio. I’m Thomas Capps.
Amber Saldana
We just wanted to be able to provide something for the community something to brighten people’s day.
Thomas Capps
Amber Mark Saldana have spent their whole life serving others. After both serving in the military the couple are retired and now living in Lauderdale County where they started their own cut flower farm called Cold Creek Flower Farm. Amber says the cut flower industry is growing in popularity, but it’s still fairly new to their area.
Amber Saldana
Our county is on the Mississippi River and so it’s mainly row crops and some small vegetable farms and we do cut flowers and we have an aviary so we are the only cut flowers that are in Lauderdale County selling to the public as well as doing our honey and and things associated with our bees. Because we’re so new to it, you know, we we grow the easy to grow flowers, things like sunflowers and solutia and Zinnias things that are easy to grow in our climate and stuff sometimes it’s just it’s as easy as throwing the seeds on the ground and and the ones that are growing are the ones that we cut.
Thomas Capps
Now two years into growing flowers the Saldana’s is are hoping to expand their business and try new things. We’re working towards.
Amber Saldana
Peonies and some perennials, some kind of some flowers that can that are a little more, I guess the market for it is a little bit bigger than say sunflowers are zinnias. But um, we do mixed bouquets. That’s really what we’re doing. And we also want to provide a you pick opportunity for folks to come in and just pick their own flowers, take pictures, whatever they want to do, I think everybody can enjoy and appreciate cut flowers. So we need to be able to give that to folks that you know we’re not really close to any big cities that you can just easily go and get, you know, all kinds of different flowers that you know at your fingertips. So to be able to at least provide that to some of our residents and even our local flower shops. That means a lot to us.
Thomas Capps
Protecting our nation, growing and cutting flowers, and living a life of serving others. For Tennessee Home Farm Radio. I’m Thomas Capps.
