David Bosselman has been farming cotton since 1995 in Suffolk’s Myrtle community. But, in 2022, sale prices for the crop plummeted after hitting a high, dropping from about $1.50 per pound to close to 75 cents in six months.
It left Bosselman thinking about new ways to bring in money. In 2023, the family patriarch of Bosselman Farms started the groundwork for a T-shirt company using his Suffolk-grown cotton.
At first, he thought it would be simple. But now, in 2026, after the Old Myrtle Cotton Co.’s first run of shirts, he’s learned there was a lot he didn’t know about the venture…