April 21, 2025

Important dates

April 26, 2025: Find us at Flock Dining from 10-3 at their last brunch of their season here in this part of the country. We are so sad to see them moving on, but honored to have been asked to participate in one of their events and always supportive of a new change in life when needed.

May 1, 2025: Next email newsletter subscriber drawing (we are up to 145 subscribers…thank you).

Happy Earth Day!! What. A. Week. Between regular appointments, every day was full of checking things off the list for our second annual Earth Day event. The house was cleaned for guests. Perriee made some delicious confections: buckeye balls, turtle fudge candy, and rice crispy treats. We rearranged hanging lights, wiped chairs, cleaned piles from corners of the Warehouse, and prepped the Flower Studio all in time to open up for the community, in hopes of offering but a temporary reprieve from the goings on in the day to day. Humaning is hard work sometimes, but getting together with folks who love music, the Earth and one another is such a way to fill your cup back up to find the gumption to go on.

The day was as perfect as we could ask for. Beautiful, breezy weather that was warm on your skin. All three bands were outstanding, the beer was cold, the vegan food was stellar, and the art station overflowed my cup. Perriee and I got to hang out with neighbors we knew and also got to meet some new ones that we are excited to get to know a little more. One of them brought a goat and the others brought a horse and offered some short rides while he was here. Now when guests plan on coming, we can offer them an option to schedule a trail ride in advance of their stay! How cool is that?? Of course, Buddy, the neighborhood dog showed up to listen to some tunes too. He was such a good boy, saying hello to his friends from the Hogtown show in November all while meeting some new faces. I believe he may have had his first taste of a vegan hotdog. So adventurous.

Oh yeah! Our neighbors even turned our ground for our pollinator patch we are planting right before the music kicked off! If that was not a perfect prelude to an Earth Day Celebration, I don’t know what is! Make sure to check out the Chronolog updates to see the progress. So many exclamation points!

With the completion of our deck, we had a lot of scrap wood when we cut the ends off the sides. To use them up a little more quickly we had the idea to set up a painting station and asked people to paint a plant from a list I compiled of things that we grow here. Let me tell you, the artistic juices were flowing! My dear friend from high school from the 1990s, came all the way from Cleveland and agreed to keep an eye on it to help people along. It was too cool. I am just completely blown away by everyone’s take on each plant they chose, and can see that so many were picked because of a special significance those particular cultivars hold in someone’s life, which is such a testament to our connection with nature. We are going to install each marker next to their respective plants here at the farm. It is such a gift. We thank you.

Thank you to each and every person who took time out of their busy lives to come and celebrate the planet with us. The raffle prizes of a donated quilt and a $30.00 Loving Farm gift card went to a new email subscriber and an existing one! If you did not win, and you are new to the newsletter, first of all, welcome, second of all, just for subscribing, you will have a chance each month to win a flower-something-or-other from us, which can be mailed or picked up here on the farm. I think we will do it again next year! Stay tuned!

As I am typing, Perriee is knocking down some winter wheat with the string trimmer as a first step in termination of the cover crop. After we get it nice and short, we will then try to cover it for a week or so prior to planting into it to get the decomposition process kicked off. This is our first spring using it and so far we are excited about it. It grew in so lush and looks so healthy. Guess that might translate into whatever plants we get in there. Now lets get some plants in the ground!!