Important dates:

August 1, 2025: monthly email subscription giveaway drawing.

August 2, 2025: preorder bouquet drop off at LilJumbo Coffee Company for pickup between 9 and 2. Call or text or email us ahead of time to order yours anytime by Friday morning when we cut flowers.

Hey flower friends!

I don’t even know how to begin unpacking the whole week. It feels like we lived a whole month in a few days. Maybe the best place to start is by doing a day-to-day to help break down exactly what transpired!

Monday: Field trip! Perriee and I had the chance to visit Hazelfield Farm, one of the mighty Kentucky farms that had beautiful “no spray” signs all along the road going up to their place. We first met this mother-daughter power duo at the flower conference in Frankfort a couple of years ago when they brought in an arrangement, in late february- early March, with the most beautiful hellebores I had never seen in real life before that moment. Have you ever seen a real, life hellebore? I hope to be able to show you one sometime, but for now, enjoy this link. They are the flowers represented in the “gift ideas” photo. Anyhow, their farm is spectacular, and their flowers are grown in conjunction with the Earth, with no artificial fertilizers or chemicals and they just give a crud about humanity and the planet which is enough for me. Those happen to be my new meter for deciding is someone is cool. Can you see value in all humans? Check! Love the planet and do your best to protect it and maybe even enrich her a tad? Check.

Tuesday: Our dear friend came over and helped us build a farm-style table out of one of our old barn doors. Oh em gee it is beautiful. We saw her on Sunday for a spell at the brewery where I mentioned the possibility of making one, thinking that when she visited we might look at a book (that she gave us) and come up with a plan. Nahhh, she showed up with her tools and a will, and with her guidance, the three of us built in one day the most glorious farm table I have ever seen! We absolutely cannot wait to have a big meal around it. Will you come? Maybe harvest time?

Wednesday: We cut flowers in the morning and prepared a flower bar for some school kids who were scheduled to come on Thursday for Flower Farming 101! Additionally, we cleaned out the barn by the duck run to set up the space for the flower bar. Normally we would have held the workshop in the Warehouse but there happens to be a nursery in there at the moment for some turkey vultures who found the dark, quiet of the stripping room to be a suitable spot to raise their young. I mean, I am honored. We have had a few sightings and just love their company, trying to give them as much privacy as they need before they fledge.

While preparing the other barn for company, we decided to pull out the tipi tarp to see how it is faring these days and it looks pretty good, considering it has been wrapped up for about two years. There were only two rodent nests to shake out and no more tears in her than there were that fateful day when she blew over. We are going to measure it end to end to see if we can find a good place in one of the barns to hang it up. It is a literal work of art, hand painted from the folks we purchased it from about 7 years ago. How does time pass so quickly? Does anyone know of a person who could mend our tarp?

Thursday: The kids came! It was so hot, but they did GREAT! In the short amount of time they were here we planted sunflower seeds, learned how to save seeds, fed the ducks peas, made bouquets, and decorated our flower ring! One of them chose a flower specifically because she knew it had a lot of seeds in it! Our work here is done. Go forth and gather all the seeds, little one! Because Mercury is in retrograde, we were not entirely sure how many were coming and had cut a few too many flowers, so when we had some time to fill after lunch, Perriee and I wrapped the iron flower ring with some chicken wire and started filling it in with the extras. The kids did not need long to figure out how to do it, and before long they were hooked (as were we because it looked amazing). After we made a tree out of dried flowers on a chicken wire base at the flower market last winter, I knew we just had to get going to build a little vision. They talked about the different smells, the beauty of the flowers, even how cool it sounded to snip the base of a bouquet to even them out. It was so amazing.

We then had the opportunity to go to a friend’s house who was pressure canning green beans. She gave us the step-by-step, letting us get our hands on the canner to see how it should look and explained the process so well I feel confident that we could do it ourselves now! This is also our friend who has had us over for cheese making a while back. The homesteading game is on point over there!

Friday: We cut flowers and kept the ducks cool in the heat.

Saturday: Cooked some soup and baked some cookies while Perriee sold a few bouquets at the local farmers market. By the way, I saw the elderberries ripening so if anyone needs any, let us know and either you can come pick them yourself or we can try to snip and save them for ya.

The next four weeks are gonna be weird around here, so if you have any topics you would like to hear more about regarding our farm or farming practices, let us know. I might need a little inspiration. If nothing else, I can post a million pictures of the farm because it is looking spicy right now. Stay cool friends. Thanks so much for reading.