By Admin, BuyLocalBG.com, BuyLocalBg@gmail.com/
Friday, February 6th, 2015 10:00 AM CST
This past month Community Farmers Market Bowling Green had visiting vendors from Alaska (also based in Stanford, KY) to Florida (Also based in Southern Kentucky). This was a great time to share with local farmers from other regions and how they have bettered their community. Now, we turn our attention to some of the vendors who provide local options week in and week out through the year. This week we look at Sunny Point Gardens. People that attend the market rave about Sunny Point, “We have really enjoyed the produce that we have gotten at Sunny Point Gardens so far. The onions, radishes, and lettuce have a different taste that is wonderful. I am sure that it is because no chemicals and pesticides are used in any way to raise the produce. The produce is also the cleanest you will find. Their produce requires less cleaning and that is a time saver. We can’t wait until other produce is available. You will also enjoy getting to know the owners of Sunny Point Gardens. They are a great family.” said Cindy Whittle Manley. Here is the Sunny Point Gardens story as told by Sunny Point:
In the winter of 2010 we decided to build our own greenhouse and start all our own vegetables plants. It soon became obvious we could have a lot more vegetables than we could use ourselves. We thought surely others were concerned about healthy food for their family as well so we started thinking about growing for others also. Knowing we were quit busy with our photography business we wondered how we could turn our hobby of gardening into another business. When we presented our thoughts to the rest of our family they all became excited about the idea of all of us working together to provide healthy farm fresh produce for our family and others. Without our family joining us in this venture it would not have been possible for us to proceed with our plan.
So in early 2011 our family consisting of our daughter Shauna, her husband Joey and their daughter Haleigh Tyndall and our daughter Lauren, her husband Josh and their son Seth Miller and along with Saundra and myself we formed “Sunny Point Gardens”.
Sunny Point Gardens is located at our home on our 14 acre farm, in northwest Edmonson County, Kentucky. We will be growing a variety of vegetables including hydroponic lettuce and salad greens plus blueberries, blackberries, raspberries, and cut flowers.
We hope you will share our excitement of Sunny Point Gardens providing “Farm Fresh Produce and Flowers for Our Family and Yours”
“Update” – In September of 2011 we sold our small business (Alan Davis Photography) which we had owned for over 35 years.
We now are full time farmers at Sunny Point Gardens!
