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the west and the hoop house in the northern part of the
county. The cost of delivery within the county is included
in each product’s sale price. For customers outside the
county, delivery can be arranged to a mutually convenient
location for pickup.
The partners wear branded polo shirts and use their
personal vehicles for delivery, applying magnetic signs
for an official look. Delivering pre-planted containers
has required creative ideas such as using seat belts or
creating a special planter car seat out of boxes.

Lessne said, “Getting a van is on our wish list, but we’re
not there yet. As the business grows, we’ll look at financing
a van.”
For now, she said, “We’re amazingly successful in carting
plants around. For Make & Takes, all the equipment goes
in my Subaru; the flats go into Michaelle’s Prius. With mud up to our knees, it was

Scanlon said running the business has been “A good day at the office.”
fun. She described one adventure this April
when it had snowed and was icy outside.
Expecting a delivery, the women went to the
hoop house and had to chip ice away from
the door. The delivery man arrived and
backed his semi-trailer through the mud.
It sank. “We were throwing rocks under
the tires, anything we could do to try to
help him get out. At the end of the day,
we took a picture of ourselves in our
Wellingtons, with mud up to our knees.
We posted it on the Internet with the
caption: “A good day at the office.”

Lessne agreed. “We’re having a
good time, and our partnership
really works. We each have different
strengths and we let each other
play to her own strength.
“I don’t know how either of us could do it by herself. With
marketing, finance, the design and planting, customer Carol Kinsley
Kinsley Communications.
service… There are so many things we have to cover. We 410-924-3582
do it together and that makes a difference.” A cjkinsley@comcast.net

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