In nature-obsessed Portland, plant-filled cafes are ubiquitous, found in most neighborhoods. But in Woodstock, the pastries and plants at Botanical Bakeshop have a cultural connection. Geleen Abenoja, the baker behind Shop Halo Halo, and Daphne Peters, the proprietress of Daphne’s Botanicals, met vending side-by-side at the Golden Evening market in 2021. The duo opened their businesses in a shared space in July, where folks can leisurely shop for plants while sipping on a sampaguita milk tea lattes and nibbling on calamansi shortbread cookies.
Joining forces has created space — both conceptually and physically — for Abenoja and Peters to explore their shared Filipino heritage. “I think of our
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