Melanie Harrington.

Like so many businesses, the global floral industry has been hit hard by the pandemic. At the height of the crisis, the iconic Aalsmeer Flower Auction in the Netherlands – the world’s flower trade capital – trucked mountains of unsold flowers to the compost heap. But while flower sales have dropped throughout the world, one small flower farm near Trenton is bucking the trend, and winning. I wrote and photographed a story for Watershed Magzine about the mastermind behind it.