But there is no getting away, really. Her past informs her present and likely will guide her future.
In 2007, after graduating from Muhlenberg College with a degree in comparative world literature and communications, followed by a decade in Center City's corporate world, Love felt a primordial pull - not to return to her family's Loveland Farm in East Waterford, Pa., but to get back to the garden.
"I grew up with a tremendous love of growing anything," she says.
And the women in Love's family grew it all. They cultivated an enormous kitchen garden just outside their 1901 farmhouse, one that provided a large extended family with enough beans, sweet corn, peppers, pumpkins, beets, tomatoes, cabbages, blueberries, pears, peaches, and all else for an entire year.
Supplemented by fresh milk, pork, and beef from the animals, the family was - still is - almost entirely self-sufficient. And Love, who lives in Mount Airy, grew up thinking "canned goods" meant a shelf of home-preserved Ball jars.
But her primary interest in returning to the garden wasn't to re-create Loveland Farm in the city. Love wanted to "reenter that circle of life" in a way that was entrepreneurial, directly connected to customers, and deeply creative.
The answer came to her in the organic fields of Weavers Way's Co-op farm in Germantown, where she says she volunteered so much, she morphed into a "farm groupie": Just as most fruits and vegetables sold in the United States come from far away and are literally drenched in fungicides and pesticides, so it is with flowers.
Flowers would be her mission, then - organic, locally grown, seasonal, and unusual. Her business would be both farmer's markets and "indie" weddings, the ones in funky venues, with a romantic or vintage feel and couples who care about their footprint on Earth.
