![]() ![]() Thanks so much for joining me today as you heard in real time how Melissa is planning to re-brand her farm with the tagline: We Grow Wedding Flowers. ![]() The farm serves the local florist trade and the public.įind Melissa and her flowers at these social places: They are producers of specialty cut flowers and pastured pork, saying: “we aim to produce the most beautiful flowers you’ve ever seen and the best pork you’ve ever tasted.” Josh’s Ossabaw Island pigs are raised to forest-forage through the woods, eating the local flora as well as seasonal cover crops.įraylick Farm’s flowers are grown without harmful pesticides or chemicals to provide not only beauty but serve as valuable hosts to beneficial insects and pollinators. Melissa and Josh Smith run Fraylick Farm in Travelers Rest, South Carolina. ![]() Here’s a little more about Melissa, excerpted from the Fraylick Farm web site: Love this photo of Melissa Smith that I took at the Slow Flowers Creative Workshop in Raleigh-Durham a few years back. “I started meeting people through the Flower Farmer group on Facebook and I knew there were at least five of us here – and I thought ‘that’s enough for a group.’” When Melissa and Josh moved their farming operation to the Greenville area in October 2015, Melissa felt the need for community. “The state of South Carolina in general is getting a whole lot more flower-focused,” she told me in a phone interview. Melissa and her husband Josh Smith own Fraylick Farm, based in Travelers Rest, S.C., about 10 miles north of Greenville, S.C., and 10 miles south of the S.C.-N.C. I found their sense of collaboration and mutual respect for one another very encouraging, because they are basically creating a new market in their region. I met today’s guest, flower farmer Melissa Smith,along with several others in the SC Upstate Flowersgroup a few years ago when they came to the Slow Flowers Meet-Up in the Raleigh-Durham, N.C. Flower farmer Melissa Smith from Fraylick Farm and SC Upstate Flowers (c) Kimberly Michelle Gibson Photography ![]()
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