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Rech Family Gardens offers colorful buckets of zinnias, sunflowers and other flowers. Rech raises 15 colors of zinnias and 20 varieties of sunflowers.
The flower business is a year-round endeavor for Sally Rech, who holds workshops on wreath-making with dried flowers. From spring through frost she's in the flower fields at Rech Family Gardens in the town of Mount Hope, Wisconsin.
Sally Rech, right, shows Holly Allen of Lancaster, Wisconsin, how to use heavy wire to attach broom corn to a decorative wreath.
Becky Mumm, left, and Nicole Polkinghorn, both of Lancaster, Wisconsin, learn dried-flower wreath-making techniques from Sally Rech. The workshop was held Nov. 26 at Vesperman Farms in Lancaster.
Judy Vesperman works on attaching dried flowers from Rech Family Gardens to a wreath. She and her family own Vesperman Farms, which features an event barn as well as ice cream treats. Sally Rech held her dried-flower wreath-making workshop in the event barn.
A few of the 75 species of flowers grown at Rech Family Gardens begin to bloom in spring.
Celosia grows at Rech Family Gardens. Celosia is available in many colors and forms. The blooms also dry well for dried-flower arrangements. Sally Rech says that's why celosia is one of her favorite annual flowers.
Celosia grows at different heights in showy rows at Rech Family Gardens.
Rech Family Gardens offers self-serve 'Grab and Go' bouquets, available on an honor system. Sally Rech places them on her porch in Lancaster.
Sally Rech begins decorating a mannequin for a float showcasing Rech Family Gardens in Lancaster's Harvest Festival Parade.
Rech's mannequin is transformed into a piece of eye-catching organic art.
The Rech family is ready to take pumpkins from the farm to their home in Lancaster where they'll be distributed via various sales channels. Brad Rech and daughter, Emma Rech, 14, are in the foreground. On the rear wagon from left are Abby, 12, Lily, 10, and John, 7. Annie, a Border Collie, participates in the fun.
Sally Rech's father, Randy Beach, uses a chain saw to cut broom corn. He's joined, from left, by John, Abby and Lily Rech. The broom corn was used in several wreath-making workshops offered by Sally Rech.
Rech Family Garden offers a variety of fresh bouquets – from pastels to bold contrasts.
LANCASTER, Wis. – When the youngest of her four children started school Sally Rech asked herself what she would do with herself. She wasn’t interested in a 9-to-5 job, she said.
Lynn Grooms writes about the diversity of agriculture, including the industry’s newest ideas, research and technologies as a staff reporter for Agri-View based in Wisconsin.
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The flower business is a year-round endeavor for Sally Rech, who holds workshops on wreath-making with dried flowers. From spring through frost she's in the flower fields at Rech Family Gardens in the town of Mount Hope, Wisconsin.
Judy Vesperman works on attaching dried flowers from Rech Family Gardens to a wreath. She and her family own Vesperman Farms, which features an event barn as well as ice cream treats. Sally Rech held her dried-flower wreath-making workshop in the event barn.
The Rech family is ready to take pumpkins from the farm to their home in Lancaster where they'll be distributed via various sales channels. Brad Rech and daughter, Emma Rech, 14, are in the foreground. On the rear wagon from left are Abby, 12, Lily, 10, and John, 7. Annie, a Border Collie, participates in the fun.
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