Until a few weeks ago Darragh McCullough was preparing to ship 160,000 daffodil stalks from his 75-acre farm to theMr McCullough has been growing flowers for commercial sale for 20 years on a farm inFollowing the cancellation of the annual March 27th fundraiser due to the coronavirus outbreak, he was left with huge numbers of daffodils to try to sell.
“In five hours I moved my business online and did what I had been threatening to do for years,” he told The Irish Times. He began advertising bouquets of flowers for €20 on social media. “Probably in 24 hours we got 200 calls, which is very big for a farm. The only thing I’m concerned about is processing all of them,” he said. The farm has four full-time staff and about 40 daffodil pickers, he said.There was “a huge fear” that the majority of the flowers would have had to be dumped, and it was a “nervous time for everybody” growing flowers commercially, he said.
Can someone please clarify if the money goes to Charity, please?
Canprople buy them and have them delivered to hospitals? Here in Madrid there have been deliveries to cheer up people in ICU and well as to thank medical staff. I'd be happy to participate.
Would you provide a link so we (others) can buy them (for me)?