Important Dates:

June 14, 2025: Fleming County Farmers Market opening day!

July 1, 2025: Next subscriber giveaway drawing.

July 9^th 2025: Save the date! Community Farm Alliance (CFA) is coming to Loving Farm to talk with us about agrotourism, another one of our favorite topics. Once we have sign up information, we will be sure to share it here. Participation is free of charge but spots will be limited so you will want to sign up asap once registration opens. The program will include a brief tour of our farm, followed by a speaker chosen by CFA to talk about ways to increase the success of agrotourism on Kentucky farms.

It is hard to believe Monday is here already. We were talking about digging up anenome bulbs to store for the summer, to replant in the fall, and had a chuckle at how close that already feels. Maybe we will just leave them in the ground and see what happens. I think we are putting out our drip irrigation next weekend with the help of one of our classmates from farm school who is interested in learning along with us (and we are sooooo grateful for the assistance). Luckily the patterns of rain so far this season have helped us with our need for watering a lot so far, but we still want to see what the flowers do with some extra attention in the aqua department. My suspicion is that we have not watered enough in past years. Prior to this, we just practiced the ole, “lug the heavy hose around and try not to smash plants in the process” routine. We are looking forward to easing up the burden in that area.

Flower-wise this week we excitedly cut two do-it-yourself party buckets of flowers for farm pickup. The ingredients were chef’s kiss with anenomes and yarrow as the stars, in my opinion. The last of the shasta daisies went with it, along with the first rudbeckia and a lot of fun little additions of white salvia, forget-me-nots (I remembered them!!), bachelor buttons, evening primrose for filler (new discovery we are loving), a few stems of clover, lavender, echinacea, calendula, a couple of fleabane, comfrey, and the first celosia (it was tiny and adorable)! Our buckets are $40.00 for pickup, full of enough flowers for 3-4 bouquets or arrangements. More, if you are using small vases. They may come in more than one bucket, as we are always nervous about smushing them.

It is June which means pride month is here again. Sending so much strength to our siblings along the LGBTQ+ acronym and their loved ones who are enduring so much right now. Keep loving out loud. If you need a safe space to be you and decompress, we are here for you. The flowers provided enough to make a couple of pride-themed arrangements that we got to share with this month’s giveaway winner and with Turtleback Ridge Brewery, who celebrated their five-year anniversary on Saturday. It felt amazing to just sit and be a bar fly for a couple of hours and have a couple of beverages while catching up with so many of our local besties. We are so grateful that it exists, a safe space for us to go and be ourselves, maybe even hold hands.

Critter update: everyone is good. They have all worn us down this week between foot soaks for the ducks, chasing them around the yard after forages, Howard’s horrible attitude, Gray and her parasites and lack of want to be touched for medication (but I got her again with her topical treatment- little off center but she did not lick it), Oscar knocking over a cup of dry food while making their breakfast, random pees in the house (probably Max), I could go on and on… you know the routine. On top of everything else going on, it has been a lot to manage, but they are good.

Thank you to everyone who has checked in on us this week, virtually or in real life. We could not do this alone. Now, please excuse me while we figure out where to plant those sweet potato slips we picked up at the extension office. Next year we will be ready for them.

PS: I have a lot on my mind these days, outside of the day-to-day of the farm and flowers- more so, thoughts about the world and stuff. If you really want to see that side of my brain, there may be an opportunity separate from this little blog, for a small fee to those interested. One per month. Two dollars instead of two cents. Stay tuned.