I’m Stephanie Bennett, the proud owner & operator of Echo Rock Flowers in Westerly, Rhode Island.  

oUR story

After conceiving and helping to open/run the Malted Barley restaurant with my husband, Colin, in downtown Westerly in 2011, I shifted my focus to raising our two boys.

As the years passed and life with young kids became a little less demanding, I started to think about what might come next for me. I paid attention to the questions that kept coming up:

Where am I most at ease when I’m not with my family or friends? What work makes the hours pass quickly, even when it’s repetitive or messy? The answer was always the same: being outside, hands in the dirt.

And what do I genuinely enjoy growing, cutting, arranging, and sharing? Flowers. It became clear that this is the kind of work I’m meant to do - and honestly, the world can always use a little more beauty and color.

So I began to set my sights on one day growing cut flowers for market in the fall of 2017. In the winter of 2019 I decided to officially launch Echo Rock Flowers.

To date we are growing on about 1.3 acres of combined land and we are thrilled to work with The Westerly Land Trust where most of our crops happily grow at the Barlow Preserve (449 Westerly Bradford Road).