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Hook & Vine Hits the Pumpkin Patch, and the Bonners Ferry Herald and the Bonner County Daily Bee Local News papers. 

There’s something pretty surreal about seeing something you created become part of your own community.

This fall, Hook & Vine Co. headed to the Kootenai Valley Pumpkin Patch for one of our first opportunities to put the product directly into the hands of local plant people.

And then we ended up in the Bonners Ferry Herald.

The feature, “Kootenai Valley Pumpkin Patch brings fall tradition close to home,” captured the atmosphere of the event, and included a photo of me sharing the Hook & Vine design with local shoppers.

For a small business that started with an idea, a pile of materials, and a whole lot of trial and error, moments like this mean a lot.

From an idea to something people can actually hold.

Hook & Vine started with a simple frustration:

Why does hanging a plant have to be so difficult?

Traditional plant hangers can require you to maneuver a pot through the hanger itself, which can be especially annoying with larger pots, trailing plants, or vines that have already made themselves very comfortable.

So I started experimenting.

Prototype after prototype eventually became the Hook & Vine detachable top system: a different approach to hanging your plants that lets you place the pot first and connect the hanger afterward.

It took more than a year of developing, changing, testing, and rethinking the design to get here.

And now, people are actually using them.

Taking Hook & Vine into the community.

The pumpkin patch was especially fun because it wasn’t just about selling a product.

It was about being able to talk to people about the idea.

I got to demonstrate how it works, answer questions, hear what people thought, and watch that little moment when someone realizes:

“Ohhh. That’s actually really clever.”

Those conversations are one of my favorite parts of building Hook & Vine.

Because this isn’t just about making another plant hanger.

It’s about rethinking something familiar and making it work a little differently.

And now… we’re in the paper.

Having the Bonners Ferry Herald feature Hook & Vine as part of the Kootenai Valley Pumpkin Patch story was an unexpected and very cool milestone.

I’m incredibly grateful to the people who stopped by our booth, supported a brand-new local business, shared our posts, purchased a hanger, and encouraged me to keep going.

Hook & Vine is still in its early days.

There are new materials, new designs, new ideas, and a lot more experimenting ahead.

But seeing the first products leave my hands and become part of people’s homes?

That’s pretty spectacular.

Thank you for being here at the beginning.

🌿 Hook & Vine Co.
Welcome to the tangle-free rebellion.