On a Wednesday morning in early May, Kellan MacKay rolls out of bed at 5 a.m., a full hour before sunrise. She confesses she’s not a morning person. But her love of flowers is big enough to overcome her biological inclination to sleep in. And this is an important day.
It is the seasonal opener for the new Sonoma Flower Mart, a marketplace for a growing little niche of farmers in Sonoma County who cultivate flowers as a specialty crop.
“I grabbed the cash box and got in the van with my coffee and drove here,” said the 32-year-old grower, part of the team at Oak Hill Farm in Glen Ellen,
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