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Dear Neighbors - You're Invited to Our Neighborhood Workshop

Updated: Oct 8, 2025

Dear Neighbors,


On August 1, 2025, WildFlowers Music Park, Inc. purchased the 270-acre property at 4107 NE 255th Drive. We are a non-profit charity that bought the land using funds borrowed from family and friends plus substantial seller-financing.

We are restoring the land to serve as a public nature park and will be growing native wildflowers and grasses for their seeds.


Once per year, we will celebrate our mission, support one or more local charities, and make our mortgage payments by hosting a family-friendly festival of music and dance.


The below Neighborhood Workshop Notice is an opportunity for you to discuss our plans for the property with us on Saturday, October 18th, 2025.


The workshop purpose is for the WildFlowers board of directors and staff to inform neighboring property owners and the public, seek their comments, and respond to questions about plans for the nature park and festival in March 2026.


The agenda for the workshop will consist of several parts – you are welcome to attend some or all sessions.


1.       Optional Field Trip of approximately one hour.

Location – WildFlowers Music Park, 4107 NE 255th Drive, Melrose, FL

Arrive anytime between 9am and 11am


2.       Displays and One-on-One Conversations with board and staff regarding the park

Location – Eliam Baptist Church Gymnasium, 6009 Hampton Street, Melrose, FL

2-3pm


3.       Questions and Comments from audience members

3-4pm


4.       Short break when comments are finished, refreshments provided


5.       Responses to Questions

4:15pm


You can also email in questions to Catherine@WildFlowesMusicPark.org


In addition, every Saturday morning for the next couple of months, we will have a walking tour of WildFlowers Music Park (with a golf cart available for those who don’t wish to walk). We will describe our current and future land management activities, and discuss how the nature park, our agricultural pursuits, and the festival activities are being laid out. We’ll look at birds, bugs and botany. The land is beautiful, but requires a lot of work, most of which will be done by volunteers that you’re always welcome to join.


What: WildFlowers Walk & Talk

When: Every Saturday morning in October & November, begins at 9am

Where: 4107 NE 255TH Drive

Wear: Long pants, walking shoes, hat, water, bug repellent


Contacts: Robert Hutchinson 352-256-6043, Guy Forchion 786-325-5347


Would you like to be notified of public meetings, burns or events?


All nearby neighbors should’ve received a mailing from us, that includes an invitation as well as a postage-paid return envelope to let us know your notification preferences, alternatively, or if you didn’t receive one, you can click this link to let us know your notification preferences –



Would you like to join us in land stewardship?


Volunteer Sign-up –


Would you like to learn more about the park? Click here for our most up-to-date FAQs -


 
 
 

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