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WOLLAM GARDENS
Culpeper County, VA
Bob Wollam, a resident of the Dupont Circle neighborhood, began farming in 1991 on land that has been in agricultural production since the 1770s. His love of flowers came from his grandparents, with whom he spent summers as a boy. At the end of a corporate career spent primarily in the Far East, Bob began working full-time growing flowers on his 11-acre farm in Jeffersonton, VA. He has more than 6 acres in cut-flower production and sells at the Dupont Circle, By the White House and Penn Quarter FRESHFARM Markets, , at markets in Warrenton and Arlington, and to florists and designers in Washington, DC. Bob has an internship program through which anyone with an interest in horticulture can live at the farm, work with and learn about all aspects of his business. He raises a mix of annual and perennial flowers and flowering shrubs using Integrated Pest Management (IPM). Bob has also been active in the neighborhood, starting children's gardens at Ross Elementary School in the Dupont Circle neighborhood and at the New Community Center in Shaw. His son Ben, now a sophomore at Wilson High School, is also involved, growing his own plants and helping at the market.
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