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Spread Joy & Follow the Sun
BEACH PLUM FARM, CAPE MAY, VIDEO
Read the story and watch the video documenting Beach Plum Farm's first Flower Flash, from first harvest to final installation touches. Inspired by the work of NYC-based designer Lewis Miller, our Flower Flash was a chance to spread joy and show a little love to our Cape May community.
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From Montauk Point
I stand as on some mighty eagle's beak,
Eastward the sea absorbing, viewing, (nothing but sea and sky,)
The tossing waves, the foam, the ships in the distance,
The wild unrest, the snowy, curling caps—that inbound urge
and urge of waves,
Seeking the shores forever.
~ Walt Whitman
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