Important dates:

October 1, 2025: monthly email subscription giveaway drawing! Today the newsletter reaches 190 of you. One of our goals is to reach 200 by the end of the year, and I think the month that we do get to that goal, we will have two drawings to celebrate.

October 26th^th:: Landscape painting day from 2:00 to 5:30ish with our friend Kit from Artmarkit Covington. If you have ever wanted to paint a landscape is the perfect time to dip your brush in and do it. Kit will provide some guidance to kick you off on an amazing landscape painting experience. Space is limited in order to ensure everyone gets support through the event. Ticketing information is coming soon. The cost will be $40/person, which will include a brief lesson, art supplies and some light refreshments. No experience is necessary!

April 25^th, 2026: Third Annual Earth Day Celebration at Loving Farm! Mark your calendars. We will be having a day filled with fun and music and food (a return of the vegan hot dog truck is in the works) with some new additions (maybe a sound bath to kick off the day?). I will be reaching out to our favorite entomologist to see if maybe she can share something with us about insects too!

Let me tell you how beautiful our evening was last Sunday celebrate the Autumn Equinox with flowers and a sound bath on the deck. We kicked off the evening in the Warehouse where I did a very quick demo on how to decorate a wreath base and Perriee showed how to wrap a sage stick and then we let everyone dig in to the flowers (and snacks too). Although we were all getting acquainted during our crafting, there was a quiet calm in the room as everyone focused on the flowers. The smells of the herbs, the textures of the different plants, and the contrasting colors touched on so many of our senses.

After finishing our wreaths, we moved to the deck where Kristen led us through the journey of sound in conjunction with the sounds of nature. We laid our flower art next to the bowls where they soaked up the direct reverberations of the auditory show. I laid on the mat I chose and watched the birds above who flitted around to join the trees and the sky appeared as a movie screen, bordered by the solar lights hung around the perimeter of the deck. As the sun set, I could not help but sit up to take in some of the evening sunset and then laid back down to listen to our ducks quacking nearby and the cows off in the distance. It was hard for me to quiet my mind and relax through it all, underscoring exactly the importance of being there…to slow down, but it was all just so lovely and restorative. We would love to do it all again!

How did you celebrate the transition of the seasons?

The rest of the week found us at the Fleming County Chamber of Commerce, where we finally turned our application in to become official members and we attended a mechanical weed control day at the University of Kentucky on Tuesday where we learned about how to use some amazing tools to help maintain weeds without the use of chemicals. Consequently, we came home to hand weed some spots as we do. Most of the tools they showed were for larger scale operations, although we did have our eye on some hand tools that were demoed which I had never known how to use before (string weeders? The ones with the thin twine wires that look like skinny rakes). One of those might be useful in the future for us, but we are still not interested in anything with a motor outside of a push mower.

The food was spectacular, sourced by so many Kentucky farms, so I did eat the chicken AND some Cleve’s pulled pork. My favorite part of the whole day was seeing so many fellow agricultural friends there: people from the Kentucky Farm Launch program, folks from extension, OAK, and Grow Appalachia and farmers we have met through our affiliation with the Kentucky Flower Market. Last but not least was crossing paths with our own Fleming County NRCS representatives who came up to say hello to us. It really was meaningful to feel that strong sense of community. In my previous careers I cannot remember having such authentic experiences at any conferences or meetings attended. We have found our people.

The week was rounded out at home, organizing our spice cabinets, mostly (if anyone needs a few tablespoons of something for a recipe, feel free to see if we have some before buying it and we can share). We hosted a delicious lentil themed supper with some friends and Perriee knocked out an all-day training for food safety and farming which might be a stronger bind between us than our wedding vows. Finally, the gutters are up on the Flower Studio and connected to our new-to-us water tanks, ready to receive the next rain. Now we will try to rest, recharge and get ready for the new week ahead.