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Friday 7.28.23 - Sunday 7.30.23
Nikki is the owner and founder of Cross Street Flower Farm. She began the farm on a small plot in her front yard in 2015, and each year she tripled flower production. Cross Street is now located on 7 acres of preserved town-owned farmland at the 300-year-old Jacobs Farm in the beautiful, New England town of Norwell, MA. Norwell is where Nikki and her husband, Scott, live and are raising their three boys. Cross Street now sells over 1,000 CSA Flower Shares a season from April to October, sells flowers seasonally in the Barn Shop and hosts cut your own events and workshops on the farm.
Cassidy Conway is a Boston Public School science teacher by day and Cross Street Flower Farm’s yoga teacher (and a mom) by night and on the weekends. You will find her in our beautiful fields every Saturday morning, closing each class with a Mary Oliver poem.
Writer Marcia DeSanctis is the author of "100 Places in France Every Woman Should Go", a NY Times Travel bestseller, and the 2022 memoir-in-essays, "A Hard Place to Leave: Stories from a Restless Life,” one of Vogue’s Best Books of 2022 and the Washington Post’s Best Travel Books of 2022.
She is a contributing writer at Travel & Leisure, and also writes for Vogue, Air Mail, BBC Travel, the NY Times, and many other publications. She has won 5 Lowell Thomas Awards from the Society of American Travel Writers for excellence in travel writing, including one for Travel Journalist of the Year. Visit her website at marciadesanctis.com.
Our very talented friend Semia Dunne, founder and owner of SEMIA Floral Designis returning to Cross Street to join us for our inaugural BLOOM retreat. Semia is one of the top floral designers in the country and also the founder and owner of The Floral Reserve, a wholesale floral market in Providence, Rhode Island. We are thrilled to have Semia join the BLOOM team.
Colette Hannahan is a painter living between San Francisco, Minnesota, and places she's invited to paint commissions or teach workshops. Floored by nature, Colette paints to toast and connect with the moments that cause her to look up, slow down, and to remind herself how a place felt.
Colette shows her paintings regularly around the Bay Area and soon in Minneapolis. Her last show — which celebrated the glory of Mount Etna, Ustica, and Ortigia — was in Catania, Sicily last June. Currently, Colette is working on a new series of Bay Area and Midwest paintings for open studios in the fall. And this spring, she will be co-leading a creativity and movement retreat in Sicily. Her website is colettehannahan.com and you can see some of her travel paintings and work in progress on Instagram (@colettehannahan).
James Hopkins grew up in the Blue Ridge mountains of Virginia and received a degree in French Language and Literature from Duke University. He worked for more than 20 years as an investment broker with UBS Financial Services, before retiring to a Buddhist monastery in Kathmandu to study philosophy & Himalayan languages. James has written four books of poetry and is also the author of Many Threads: The Forgotten Children of Nepal – a photographic journey through a community of street beggars, snake-charmers, shoeshine experts and quilt-makers who live near his house in Kathmandu.
James is also the Director of Quilts for Kids Nepal – a non-profit whose mission is to provide jobs for economically-challenged women and to finance education for at-risk girls who would otherwise be begging on the streets of Kathmandu. Through the sale of handmade quilts a child is able to attend school for an entire year and is given two school uniforms, two pairs of shoes, a backpack & schoolbooks, and the possibility of a bright future!
Lavinia Spalding is an author and editor who has published ten books. She is the six-time series editor of The Best Women’s Travel Writing, the author of Writing Away, and the co-author of With a Measure of Grace, This Immeasurable Place, and the 2022 Frommer’s Easy "Guide to New Orleans." She’s also co-host of the storytelling podcast There She Goes.
Lavinia’s writing has appeared in The New York Times’ Modern Love column, AFAR, Tin House, Longreads, Yoga Journal, Sunset, Ms., The San Francisco Chronicle, The Guardian, and many more publications. Her work has won gold Lowell Thomas and gold SOLAS travel writing awards and has been recognized in The Best American Travel Writing. Her TEDx talk has been viewed over 60,000 times.
Ravina Kaur is a graduate of Sweet Briar College with a Business degree. Ravina was born in India and raised in Nepal in an impoverished family.
Ravina is the youngest of eight siblings and the first to attend school in her family andcommunity. Ravina has been working with Quilts for Kids Nepal since she was ten years old,and now she has been the manager of the entire nonprofit for nine years. Ravina is passionate about educating and empowering girls in underprivileged communities.
