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Lavender Fields Forever

at PURPLE BLOOMERS LAVENDER FARM

Photos by Craig Rogers Photography By Crissy Neville

Delt and Shelby with their daughter Tammy Currin with husband Dwight. Dwight is holding a photo of
his parents Jack and Emogene Currin

A new lavender farm in Lillington is giving local flower lovers flower farm start-up. “I always said I would never be a farmer
a blooming good time this summer. Purple Bloomers Lavender or marry one after my daddy worked us so hard on the family
Farm & Cut Flowers, owned by Tammy and Dwight Currin, tobacco farm, but look where I am now at age 63, and I love it.”
is celebrating its second season with pick-your-own lavender The Currins opened Purple Bloomers in June 2021 after sell-
sessions, farm/garden tours, flower bouquet-building bars and ing their decades-old real estate on Bragg Boulevard in Fay-
more. etteville in March 2021, a commercial strip that housed their
three business interests. Paper, Pens, Etc., Tammy’s printing
And Tammy, a career-long businesswoman but locally raised and business supplies company since 1990, was the original
farm girl, couldn’t be happier. occupant, one she now operates part-time from her home of-
fice. Next door was a kids’ hair salon, Toadly Kool Me Kids
“I just wish I hadn’t waited so late to do this,” she said of her Hair Salon, a frog-and-toad-themed fun enterprise the Currins

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