KENNETT SQUARE — Kathi Lafferty just might have stumbled on, or stumbled through, the pet rock of the new millennium: Kennett Square Potpourri. Packaged in a 2-inch clear green glass jar with a cork in the top, the “potpourri” is 1 ounce of mushroom...
Kathi Lafferty is amused when people tell her that New Jersey residents would not be interested in Kennett Square’s annual Mushroom Festival. “I have people who come from Nevada,” says Lafferty, the festival coordinator. A man from Washington state...
When Kathi Lafferty heard that exhibits from the closed Phillips Mushroom Museum were available, she jumped at the chance to display them. “I couldn’t pass these museum pieces up,” says Lafferty, owner of The Mushroom Cap, a boutique at 114 W. State St. “I just...
