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Photo: Marissa Troje at MKT Photography
Sisters Taryn Menne and Renee Neeser have always been best friends. While working corporate jobs, the pair dreamed up a way to spend more time together that involved creativity. In the end, they decided to extend their family legacy. “My grandpa did crop farming, and my grandma always had a large garden, and my dad continued that,” Neeser says. After growing flowers for Menne’s wedding and enjoying the experience, they decided to open a flower farm on their grandparents’ Hugo property in 2020. T and Nae LLC was born.
At the farm, the sisters offer specialty-cut flowers for bouquets, buckets and custom events and host specialty floral events and a weekly farmers market from July through August. Though Menne does outreach and social media and Neeser lives on the farm and oversees day-to-day labor, they each do a bit of everything. “We know each other so well, so when we’re working together, we know how to balance each other and what roles work best for us,” Neeser says.
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Renee Neeser and Taryn Menne
The mobile offerings also provide a fun way to share flowers from the farm. The Ninny is a converted horse trailer that acts as a mobile floral bar; the Noddypeak is a smaller cart toting flowers and champagne. “The names both mean ‘the fool,’” Neeser says. “When we started this company at the beginning of the pandemic, our father [initially teased that] we were foolish to try to start a flower farm … but the community came out and supported us so much.” Other offerings include a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA), weekly and biweekly bouquets, new florals, and adding a tea garden and a pumpkin patch in the fall.
T and Nae LLC
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