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Northshore October 2025
Some flowers are snipped with the morning dew still clinging to their petals, but those that come in last each day from the 19 acres of fields at Newbury’s Tendercrop Farm are different. These blooms don’t need to be rapidly prepared for the customers who flow through the doors at Tendercrop’s three farm stands. This harvest, as mangers Kathy Richmond and her sister Colleen Hamilton well know, is meant to go for the long haul. Richmond figures her tenure at Tendercrop’s gift shop to be around 27 years. “I started when my daughter was in preschool,” she recalls of a career focused primarily on flowers. “My first job at Ten
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