Source: Paul Moon, ASHEVILLE CITIZEN-TIMES, 4/16/20


Just days after stay at home orders scuppered the planned grand opening of her Carolina Flowers Mercantile flagship store in downtown Marshall, farmer and entrepreneur Emily Copus decided the time was right to open a grocery business. “Everything has changed,” Copus said by phone from outside her South Main Street store. Since March, the 2,000-square foot space has evolved from a flower arranging studio and retail store to create space for a grocery stockroom. Coolers now hold blooms from Copus’s three-year old Carolina Flowers business alongside local eggs and farm fresh greens for her three-week old grocery delivery business.

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