For 25 years, winter cold has meant end of year at Dragonfly Gardens. Close gate, lock doors, toss plants, lay off staff and wait six months to see if the situation improves.
Well, situation has improved. A lot. And not by waiting six months. Dragonfly has house plants now, lots of them, and a year-round heated space under construction, lots of it, and there’s a cafe, which will be serving local food from local farms — not a lot of it (it is a micro-cafe) but enough for lunch.
So, change at Dragonfly — a lot of it. And the only way to make sense of any of it is to pay a visit and see for yourself. That’s what’s on offer in December. That monster of a building that looms over Dragonfly is going to throw its doors open on Fridays and Saturdays in December. If you are in the area between 10 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. — COME ON DOWN.
This is a soft opening, a trial run for the real thing. There won’t be much for sale to start, some apple pie, coffee, cider, just a few things which cannot be made a meal of. It will build over the course of the month. Once December passes, the shop takes a month off to digest what works, what doesn’t and what needs doing.
If you want any part of this, then stop in — Starting Tomorrow! — and help Dragonfly focus on what flourishes during the long cold months of northwest Wisconsin.
