{"id":68718,"date":"2025-10-03T13:52:52","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T17:52:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/videonewsservice.net\/?p=68718"},"modified":"2025-10-05T08:57:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T12:57:13","slug":"genesee-county-pudgie-r-than-before-fentons-purchase-lawn-garden-shop-on-w-main-street-road-batavia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/videonewsservice.net\/index.php\/2025\/10\/03\/genesee-county-pudgie-r-than-before-fentons-purchase-lawn-garden-shop-on-w-main-street-road-batavia\/","title":{"rendered":"GENESEE COUNTY\/\u2018Pudgie-r\u2019 than before: Fentons purchase lawn, garden shop on W. Main Street Road, Batavia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Pictured from left- Becca Clark\/Store Manager, Gail Fenton\/Store owner, Josh Lowder\/Store Antique, Wendy Mitchell\/Store Manager<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

BY MIKE PETTINELLA
For Video News Service<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

One big, happy family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That\u2019s what Gail Fenton is promising the public will experience when they visit Fenton\u2019s Bloom & Basket, the new name for Pudgie\u2019s Lawn & Garden at 3646 W. Main Street Rd., Batavia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fenton and her husband, Paul, purchased Pudgie\u2019s \u2013 which served the area since 1998 \u2013 from owner Dan Riner and opened for business on Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Fentons, longtime growers based on Pratt Road, said they intend to add to what Pudgie\u2019s offered while leaning on the former business\u2019 employees to ensure a successful operation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cPudgy has always grown great flowers, great hanging baskets, all that stuff,\u201d Fenton said during an interview with Video News Service. \u201cOver at our farm — at our greenhouses on Pratt Road — we’ve grown the same thing, but never the quantity they did. And they’ve never really done produce up here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSo we thought what a great thing to add the produce with all of the plants and flowers and everything because you’re right on the main road.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Fentons have farmed for 40 years and have sold their produce on a regular basis to farmer\u2019s markets in East Aurora and Batavia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe know how to do the whole farmers market thing,\u201d Fenton said. \u201cSo, with the (their) collaboration and ours, what a great fit, they’re going to teach me what they know. I’m going to teach them what we know about produce, and we’re going to be one big happy family.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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FENTON: SEE IT AS PUDGIE\u2019S-PLUS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fenton said she and her husband have been friends with Reiner for years and want to continue the tradition that Pudgie\u2019s established \u2013 and then some.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOur goal is for people to walk in and say, \u2018Wow, look how much more they have to offer here. Everything Pudgie had, plus. We wanted that wow factor.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She said Fenton\u2019s will offer greeting cards, plants, flowers, produce, hanging tomato and strawberry plants, herbs, bird feed, hanging baskets, Christmas trees \u2013 a one-stop shop, so to speak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hours are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Saturday and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fenton said members of the Pudgie\u2019s staff will continue to work there, providing valuable assistance to the new owners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe nice thing is they’re all staying so that was a much easier transition for us. We didn’t have to try to figure everything out on it. I would have never known how they do all the ordering,\u201d she said. \u201cThey’re pretty much going to still do that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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PUDGIE\u2019S MANAGER STAYING ON<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fenton said she is thankful that Deb Lynch, Pudgie\u2019s manager for 30 years, has agreed to stay on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cShe will help me figure out how to do the ordering. I’ve done it on a small scale for us, but I don’t know all the varieties,\u201d she said. \u201cDeb was Pudgie\u2019s assistant. She would come here every morning and get the money and take it to the bank and oversee these guys. And then plus she had to oversee the other businesses that Pudgy had. And it was just getting to be too much for her.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Calling the transaction \u201ca great deal for us,\u201d Fenton shared how she and her husband pondered how they were going to make up for reduced revenue due to a slower-than-expected farmer\u2019s market in East Aurora.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe sat down one night and wondered what we were going to do. We couldn\u2019t figure out something that night, but a week later, Deb pulls in the driveway, and it says, \u201cHey, you guys want to buy a greenhouse?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The asking price turned out be too good to pass up, she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe live two minutes from here. So, it was a great deal for bringing stuff back and forth. It just all fell into place,\u201d Fenton recalled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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VARIETY OF PRODUCE AND CLASSES, TOO<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The business also will offer classes led by Fenton\u2019s daughter, Kelsey Morgan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cShe\u2019s doing a spooky fairy garden class on October 15th<\/sup> that filled up in two days,\u201d Fenton said, adding that other classes will be scheduled throughout the year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fenton said they will have a variety of produce to sell, including winter squash, broccoli, larger quantities of potatoes and \u201csome different stuff like a roasted medley mix where you can buy a container that\u2019s already got purple cauliflower, orange, white, Romanesco, Brussel sprouts. There\u2019s a recipe on there. You take it home, put it in the oven and roast it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fenton\u2019s is preparing for a fall festival on Oct. 18-19, an event featuring an ice cream truck, bakery company and much more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In closing, Fenton \u2013 no stranger to long hours of manual labor — said she appreciates the opportunity to serve the community in a new way and to transition into retirement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis is the perfect retirement. It’s not going to kill me to work up here and run this,\u201d she said. \u201cLike Paul says, \u2018We will expire before we retire.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For more information, go to fentonsbloomnbasket.com<\/a> or call (585)-343-8352.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Link to Facebook page below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(20+) Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pictured from left- Becca Clark\/Store Manager, Gail Fenton\/Store owner, Josh Lowder\/Store Antique, Wendy Mitchell\/Store Manager BY MIKE PETTINELLAFor Video News Service One big, happy family. That\u2019s what Gail Fenton is promising the public will experience when they visit Fenton\u2019s Bloom & Basket, the new name for Pudgie\u2019s Lawn & Garden \u2026<\/p>\n

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