{"id":30922,"date":"2021-08-24T10:30:16","date_gmt":"2021-08-24T15:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shipstation.com\/?p=30922"},"modified":"2025-10-15T13:39:34","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T18:39:34","slug":"family-run-harmony-harvest-farm-grows-flowers-and-sales-during-covid","status":"publish","type":"stories","link":"https:\/\/www.shipstation.com\/stories\/family-run-harmony-harvest-farm-grows-flowers-and-sales-during-covid\/","title":{"rendered":"Family-Run Harmony Harvest Farm Grows Flowers and Sales During Covid"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

When sisters Stephanie Duncan and Jessica Hall and their mother, Chris Auville, created Harmony Harvest Farm back in 2011, they had no way of knowing that a pandemic lingered in their future. <\/span>Their product — farm-grown, hand-cut flower bouquets — needs a lot of care, <\/span>from the ground all the way to ground shipping. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Harmony Harvest Farm<\/span><\/a>, a female-led, family-run flower farm in Virginia, does things a little differently. For starters, their hand-harvested, cut, arranged, and shipped flowers are grown right in the rolling hills of Virginia. This means that every bouquet and <\/span>DIY Flower Box<\/span><\/a> is handled with personal care and attention. For small businesses like this, though, a pandemic can cause big problems.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cBefore Covid, we weren’t shipping a whole lot of volume. We were only shipping to floral designers and doing maybe 10-20 flower boxes a week. And then, with COVID, we launched our first retail product, The Happy Box, and had 100 orders within a few hours. Even though the orders kept flooding in, the virus became more dangerous so we decided to furlough our staff for 30 days and get a safety plan together.\u201d says Stephanie Auville, Director of Marketing and Public Relations at Harmony Harvest Farm.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Listen to our podcast episode with Stephanie Duncan and learn how she was able to adapt her small family-owned Virginia flower farm into a blossoming direct-to-consumer business\u2014from dirt to door.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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