02/16/2025
Dear Curious Plantaholic,
I thought of writing a thank you post to the customers for their years of continued support, however I decided on something different. A thank you, to the shop, from me.
I’ve dreamt about my coffee shop, for years. Plant shop, coffee shop seemed brilliant to me from childhood. My comfort has always been a warm beverage in my hands. Often my hubby hands me a warm drink knowing I’d be looking for one soon. I was scared who’d like this concept and not everyone has these quirky things they do like I, constantly holding a warm drink lol. Whos even into plants besides me 😬😬😬 (welp who knew covid would assist a lady out here 🫣🫣)
Being a young mother working to pay the bills was more important then chasing my dream. However I went back to school online and slowly worked towards building a business and brand. From selling plants out of my home and personal greenhouse, to the farmers markets to store front.
You’ve taught me so much in the past five years! You’ve helped me achieve me dreams and goals. I’m no longer the un confident lady that signed that first lease! I’m now someone who negotiates and goes after what she wants. I’ve learned I’m actually really good at this whole owning a business thing. Lots of self doubt was slowly chipped away each year.
But what I really accomplished and today and this past few weeks have taught me anything I’ve accomplished something way bigger then I set out to and that was building a beautiful community of people! The tears we all shed today. It truly felt like the end of an era. We will continue on at Plants + Coffee and we have some other stuff in the works, but what we built here was something truly special! I’ve built some beautiful relationships thanks to TCP, I’ve made some life long friends. I’ve had customers become family.
Tcp community, Thank you for giving me the courage to keep going all these years. It’s the scariest thing to chase your dream and go into business. I never would of hit my goals if it wasn’t for you all! Your support and words of encouragement over the years have been needed and heard. I’m extremely excited to work on the renovation of the coffee shop, so we can continue our chats over there! This time with coffee!
- sincerely grateful for every moment.
Jenny
