Important dates:

Weekly: 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.

September 1, 2025: monthly email subscription giveaway drawing.

September 21, 2025: SAVE THE DATE! We will be hosting a sound bath + flower day here at the farm. More details to come but it is going to be on a full-moon so lets get together!

Big Bone Lick was good to me again. I only had a three-night stay, getting picked up by Perriee AND our amazing niece (who stayed at our farm for the week) on Thursday. The campground is a popular place apparently, so they only had three nights available at a given spot. The days were full of flower farms, family, friends, trail walks and even a couple of rounds of putt-putt on my last night, taking myself on quite a fun little free date. While getting my club and ball out for me, the campground attendant shared that he is also a survivor of cancer, found by chance because of a scan for a whole different thing. Life is wild.

Campgrounds are so interesting. We are all there, mostly not knowing one another, in our own little spots divided only by invisible borders, somehow able to cohabitate peacefully with one another. No one was arguing, no one bothered my things while I was away for the day. If anything, people were probably looking out for me. Why can’t we be like this on a global scale?

The flower farm, Rutz Flower Field, I found out was only minutes away from Big Bone Lick. We know them from working with the Kentucky Flower Market. I knew with all of those Kentucky flower farms that there had to be one fairly close to where I was staying, I just did not know HOW close. Perriee drove me into town on Monday so we got to experience the magic together. There we got to see so much more than beautiful flowers. We were properly introduced to all of the farm friends, Eddie, the donkey, all of the ducks, dogs, goats, cattle, and the most delightful kittens that were clearly used to being snuggled all over, purring like crazy whenever you picked them up.

If you are in Northern Kentucky, consider placing an order with them for some flowers for your next whatever occasion. Their family is spectacular, a mom-daughter team running the flower farm and have met us with warmth and welcoming each time our paths have crossed. A dear friend even drove me back the following day to so I could get some more kitten snuggles and frolic in their amazing eucalyptus patch for a spell.

My sibling came to camp on Wednesday with lunch and we took a trip into the city to my favorite place on earth (besides wherever home is), the Krohn Conservatory, where we got to go experience the butterfly exhibit! It was so beautiful to see the little fluttering creatures making their way from plate to plate of tropical fruit that was placed around the enclosure to keep them drunk and happy on nectar. When we lived in Newport, one of my favorite things to do in the middle of winter was to steal away to the warmth of the conservatory, getting a boost of life when I needed it most.

We rounded out the visit with one last peep at my bison friends. I was slightly disappointed to see the warning sign on the trail head to the bison directing visitors to stay on the pathways in order to avoid exposure to herbicides that are being applied in the adjoining tree lines. I had not noticed it last time I was there. Tell me it’s the only way and I am going to push back and say it could not be so. It probably is the only way with no one to manage the growth manually. A little spray here, a little spray there, a little spray everywhere. Where is it all going? If you think I am going to die on this hill, you are right. There is another way. There has to be.

Back at home, Perriee and Aayanah hung up our “NO SPRAY” signs along the railroad track! The railroad put the posts in for us about a week ago so we finally got to install the signs we bought over a year ago. Now my mind is cranking out ideas for a beautification project. I am thinking clover seeds along the sides, honeysuckle removal, and maybe some other fun additions to make our small slice everything the whole track could be with a little dedication from the community it runs through.

It was a spontaneous visit from our dear niece, who we always tell to let us know when she wants to come visit. She contacted us last weekend with a free week to come stay so we could not refuse! Perriee picked her up after our flower farm visit on Monday. She even stayed Thursday night so I could spend some time with her too where we ate kettle corn, chips and homemade salsa, and watched “Inside Out 2” and “K-12” which was a spectacular musical account about the perils of growing up. We were honored that she wanted to watch both films with us and I stayed awake for both. If you know me, that is a pretty amazing feat.

At the risk of being too wordy, I have to share the story of my friend, the Katydid. We met Thursday morning while I was packing up my campsite. They hung around my picnic table and we took a few photos together. Over an hour later, as Perriee was loading up my things into the car, she exclaimed that we had a hitchhiker and wouldn’t you know it, it was my friend? I made sure to capture their introduction before she offered a spot up in the nearest tree where she hopped up onto the branch as we said our goodbyes.

We got to spend Saturday night at the local brewery, TBR, with a few bunches of flowers and amazing friends. It gave us a reason to cut some blooms with the ducks and get out of the house for a little socializing. To each and every person who cheered us on this week, THANK YOU! Here’s to another round of adventure this week.