![]() ![]() Four years ago, they launched Golden Grove Farm in Fair Grove, Mo. Kelley recalled, “Nelson said, ‘These sunflowers are different.’’’ That spurred the Nichols to start researching the ornamental beauties. Nelson had grown sunflowers for years for seed and wildlife habitat at a farm he and his brother own in Golden City, Mo., but he had never worked with ornamental sunflowers. “The one thing that could put a smile on our face was that there was a market on every corner in San Francisco and every one of those markets had buckets of water with bunches of ornamental sunflowers in them,” Kelley explained. ![]() Kelley’s adult daughter was undergoing emergency brain surgery in San Francisco, Calif. Brown gardens a variety of vegetables and fruits along with hops that he said are "starting to blow up." But they will also work with Thomas Creek out of Greenville to produce beer that can go out in distribution as soon as they find a distribution partner.History: Nelson and Kelley Nichols developed their dream of an ornamental sunflower farm in the midst of a difficult time. Using a building on land purchased from Brown's grandfather, Golden Grove has been designed from the start as a place to brew beers using as many ingredients as possible from the land around them. ![]() And with the light of opening just a few months away, this friendship is ready for the next step into full-on business ownership.īrown and Temples expect to open the doors of Golden Grove Farm and Brew some time in September or early October offering an array of beer styles from saisons and hefeweisen to classic India pale ales, porters, stouts and lagers. The venture, started by friends Andrew Brown and Graham Temples, has been in development for a few years now. Just off Rogers Road on a dead-end access road only 100 or so feet from bustling I-85 is Golden Grove Farm and Brew. Why, co-owners of one of the Upstate's newest breweries set to open this fall in Pelzer. What do you get when you cross a 2013 Clemson grad who majored in parks and recreation with a PhD student in bioengineering whose dissertation revolves around cancer treatment and chemotherapy? ![]()
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