Wichita is about to get a unique new business that offers exotic plants, micro geckos and coffee.
The coffee part of the business is already operating.
Samantha Gutierrez, 26, recently transitioned her pop-up coffee business – Cafe on Me — into a brick-and-mortar space at 115 S. Minneapolis. The shop is set up inside a building that, in mid-May, will also become home to a plant shop called Verdant Coven Plant Co., owned by friends Eva Troyer and Kelsey Kuecker.
“The plant girls,” as Gutierrez affectionately calls Troyer and Kuecker, met Gutierrez at a pop-up yoga event and loved her coffee. They were already planning their plant shop and had always hoped that it would also offer coffee…