Stargazer Barn, a new e-commerce website by Sun Valley Farms partners to promote smaller local Humboldt Based businesses

Did you know that McKinleyville’s  own Leslie Woodriff developed the Stargazer lily, which is now the most popular oriental lilly in the world.  According to the Sun Valley Farm website, the Stargazer Lily was hybridized on The Sun Valley Group's Arcata farm location. Since the introduction of the Stargazer, Sun Valley produces Stargazers with a more intensely colored red bloom.

Sun Valley, an established local company and a major employer in the area is launching a new e-commerce website that will feature quality, eco-conscious products nationally. In addition to flowers grown by Sun Valley Farms, wines created at the Sun Valley vineyard, other Humboldt based businesses such as Tulip Perfume, Kinetic Coffee, Desserts on Us (which makes the yummy Lacey's cookies) and Holly Yashi will be prepresented.

The Headwaters Fund assisted the initial stages of this project with a $3,000 grant, and Sun Valley invested significant resources in thee website. To defray some of the costs, another grant request was submitted for $10,000 to Headwaters.

This was just approved,according to Headwaters Executive Director Dawn Elsbree . The website will not be launched until May.