++ flower fields in virginia

["291"]

Fields of flowers in the Virginia mountains. | flower fields in virginia

Image Source:

flower fields in virginia

Certified Agriculturalist Andrea Gagnon Shares the Agent Affairs Message, Wows With Her Flowers

["291"]

Fields of flowers in the Virginia mountains. | flower fields in virginia

Image Source:

It's not every day that National Geographic rings your phone. But that's absolutely what annual agriculturalist Andrea Gagnon accomplished back the acclaimed advertisement accomplished out to her to appeal an account and photo shoot on her Gainesville, Virginia, farm.

The advantage - touting the American Grown Annual movement - can be begin in the admired magazine's November 2017 issue.

'I grew up in a domiciliary area National Geographic was acclaimed and never befuddled away,' Gagnon explains. 'It was an absurd process. The columnist came out months afore the commodity was accounting and we spent seven solid hours shooting.' Yep, seven hours.

["717.8"]

Fields of Flowers You Can Pick at Burnside Farms in Haymarket | flower fields in virginia

Image Source:

Shooting what? Just-picked American Grown Flowers from Gagnon's LynnVale Studios, a 10-acre annual acreage and art flat endemic and operated by Gagnon and husband, Lou.

In the advance of the photo shoot, the Gagnons created bouquets and centerpieces, forth with four versions of a 'flower painting' on the barn attic and a stoop. It was one of the annual painting images that became the hero attempt in the magazine.

'It was a adventure to beam and participate in the accomplished process,' Gagnon says. 'It ranks amid the top bristles of all of my able experiences. I acquainted like I had been on a roller coaster adventure ride of design. I bethink attractive at Lou back it was over and I could almost angle up. It was so cutting and big.'

["776"]

Growing Flowers is a Rewarding Past Time--Central Virginia Flowers ... | flower fields in virginia

Image Source:

Also big - the befalling to drive home the agent affairs message, which Gagnon did with accomplishment in the article.

'The added acquaintance the American customer has about area flowers appear from, the bigger it is for all of us,' she's quoted as saying. 'It's aloof like asking, 'Is this a bounded amazon for my BLT?' Now bodies can ask, 'Oh, is that a bounded dahlia?''

So how did the American Grown Flowers movement bolt the eye of National Geographic?

["732.35"]

Yellow Fields Of Flowering Rapeseeds For Canola Oil In Richmond ... | flower fields in virginia

Image Source:

Turns out that a biographer for the annual was one of the associates of the media who were arrive to appear the American Grown Field to Vase Dinner Tour captivated at LynnVale Studios in 2015. Months later, Gagnon accustomed a alarm from the biographer and the adventure of authoritative it into book began.

During the account there were lots of questions about the American Grown Annual movement and why it's important to accept customer acquaintance about annual origin.

'I never absurd it would accomplish the magazine. What are the odds? I didn't apperceive until aftermost anniversary that it absolutely fabricated it in,' Gagnon explains.

["663.48"]

Burnside Farms - Virginia Is For Lovers | flower fields in virginia

Image Source:

But it did. And Gagnon is still on billow nine. She can't delay for her father, the longtime National Geographic subscriber, who now lives in an assisted active facility, to see the coverage.

'I'm aloof so admiring for annual farmers and for these efforts to be acknowledged,' Gagnon says.

["732.35"]