Sanjenko is a five-year veteran of the local farmers’ market, which has helped grow her relationships with customers and other vendors at the market. “It’s like when you go out and you’ve waited– say you started a perennial in February, and then it blooms not this year, but the next year, and you walk out and you see it and you’re like, ‘wow, that one’s special’.” Moss and Mirth Farm specializes in perennials, which have become one of Sanjenko’s favourite parts of her farming. Swapping colourful peppers for colourful flowers, Sanjenko was still able to keep her crop bright. Sanjenko made the decision to transition into growing flowers seven years ago. Moss and Mirth have a variety of bouquets. Sanjenko’s farm is small in comparison to larger family-run farms because she does it all on her own, which limited her ability to sell en masse. The vegetable market was a competitive one that was often limited by customer loyalty to specific farms. When she started her own farm, she initially farmed vegetables but ran into problems. She and her family never discovered what had caused her to feel so ill for so long, but Sanjenko emerged from the summer job with her health back and a career she was passionate about (beyond its health benefits). “I got a job on a farm in the summer, and I felt better,” said Sanjenko. READ MORE: Revelstoke Market Materials: Riva Chocolate It’s unclear how or why, but farming ended up becoming the antidote for her illness. The health problems, Sanjenko explained, included having a migraine almost every day for five years, and one year that kept her asleep in bed for most of the year. “So, for like five years, I just felt terrible every day.” “I got really sick, they couldn’t figure out what was wrong,” said Sanjenko. It was around that time that Sanjenko started to have issues with her health. While in university, Sanjenko studied geology and anthropology with an aim to one day have a career that kept her outside and not stuck behind a desk. “I didn’t grow up farming, although I live in, technically its Spallumcheen, which is just outside of Armstrong, and the motto is ‘where farming comes first’”, said Sanjenko with a laugh, adding that despite the motto, she didn’t notice all the farms when she was growing up. Sanjenko plants over 70,000 different flowers at her farm.
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