This week's issue of Southwest Michigan's Second Wave Media: "It could have been a corporate hog farm. Instead thousands of roses bloom in Bangor. Zinta Aistars talks to Joyce Latta and Tom Conklin about the flowers that flourish in Southwest Michigan."
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| Tom Conklin and Joyce Latta at Walnut Hill Farm (photo by Erik Holladay) |
Roses are blooming big business at Walnut Hill Farm
Thursday, August 16, 2012
Approaching Walnut Hill Farm, about two miles south of Bangor at 43148 County Road 681, the eye goes first to the walnut tree. It's huge. About 200 feet across in limb span, in fact, and at a height that speaks of more than one century rooted in this land.
Then, turning into the drive between two houses, it is the roses that overtake the senses. Not just hundreds of them -- thousands. Joyce Latta and Tom Conklin, business as well as marital partners, grow about 1,500 roses in the soil of Walnut Hill Farm, and another 1,500 or so still in pots, ready for sale.
Conklin and Latta sit down in the shade near their herb garden ...
Then, turning into the drive between two houses, it is the roses that overtake the senses. Not just hundreds of them -- thousands. Joyce Latta and Tom Conklin, business as well as marital partners, grow about 1,500 roses in the soil of Walnut Hill Farm, and another 1,500 or so still in pots, ready for sale.
Conklin and Latta sit down in the shade near their herb garden ...
Read the full article on Second Wave.
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| Photography by Zinta Aistars |
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