Logan’s Garden Shop in Raleigh Starts a New Chapter at the NC State Farmers Market This Spring01/31/2025

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Good morning, readers.

During the COVID pandemic, I became a plant person. 

I had a few plants pre-2020, but like multitudes of people around the world, I began to amass houseplants during lockdown, yearning for some nature and a hobby to keep me sane. Soon, my house was filled with heart-shaped philodendrons, towering monsteras, and iridescent anthuriums. 

“As a plant person, if you observe nature, if you observe living things, they adapt,” says Joshua Logan, third-generation co-owner of Logan’s Garden Shop in Raleigh. “We feel like businesses are much the same. It all comes down to a choice. Do you resist change and wither, or do you accept change [and grow]?”

For Logan’s, the choice was growth. The Seaboard Station staple, feeling the pressure of new construction and a different type of growth in Raleigh, is closing shop in February and moving to a new location at the NC State Farmer’s Market. 

“It was not by design … [but] we are returning to our roots with this move,” Joshua says (Logan’s got started at the original Hodges Street Farmers Market location in the ’60s). 

Read more here about the shop’s history and future, and have a good Friday.

 —Sarah W.

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