Important dates:

October 26th: Landscape painting day from 2:00 to 5:30 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 (capping at 20 people) in order to ensure everyone gets ample support through the event. Ticketing information is linked below. The cost will be $40/person, which will include a brief lesson and art supplies. No experience is necessary!

November 1, 2025: monthly email subscription giveaway drawing! Today the newsletter reaches 192 of you! Thank you for letting us drop one email into your inbox every week. It really feels special to have this little community of “Flowerers” with us.

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?).

Another jam packed week is in the books, or on the blog quite literally. Highlights included a peek into wine making, getting our drip irrigation figured out, learning how to plug up golden yarrow in a seed tray to propagate, delicious food, and quality time with friends at a camp out in a remote field near home.

Monday was my first day back at our Kentucky Farm Launch class with Perriee since before surgery in May and it was so nice to be there. The topic of most interest that day was wine making and now I don’t know what to do with the neurons in my brain that are firing away in hopes of pursuing this side quest. We learned that in Kentucky, you can make up to 200 gallons of wine per person in the household, per year, without a license for personal consumption and I believe that math would equal about 2000 bottles per year for us, which would more than supply us and leave some for gifts for some of you! If anyone knows of any wineries with Norton grapes, that variety would suit us perfectly and we can work on their farm for trade to get some canes. Let us know! We learned about one place in Kentucky about an hour away with some Norton grapes, but we don’t know them like that. Roadtrip to Harkness Edwards Winery, anyone?

As it turns out, a piece of our irrigation set up was malfunctioning (water was coming out of the top of one of the pieces) which was preventing a pressure buildup in the line, so a visit from our amazing teachers from Kentucky Farm Launch left us with a functioning watering system by removing that section for the time being. It was a major goal of the year to get the irrigation working and seeing the blue, “lay-flat” and the irrigation lines plump up with water almost immediately after taking that piece off was a spectacular feeling.

The dahlias could still see some good days ahead with the water we can deliver to them now! There are a mere 5 or 6 plants (a painstakingly small amount in terms of flower farming) that we started from Floret seed were gifted by our dear friend from the interweb. Speaking of dahlias, there are so many buds on them now since getting some nice root contact with the water! It seems they are all open face varieites, which is just fine to us. Our plan is to try to overwinter them this year as we have found our tuber-splitting and storing skills are mediocre at best and this is not the year to hone our craft.

There were so many bulbs planted this week too! A friend gifted us some daffodil bulbs in the spring which have been laying in wait in the garage all summer for this moment. Of course some other ones showed up in the mail this week: Yellow Cheerfulness and Rainbow Butterflies that are also planted now, down near the big deck. This spring could offer quite a show. There were only 35 total of the latest shipment, but I can’t tell you how many we planted from Susan’s house. One hundred? Two hundred? I don’t know.

We lined them up, three rows deep along the warehouse, adjacent to the elderberry patch. We planted a few more around our land acknowledgment pole, right across the driveway. The thing that we love about daffodils and allium in flower farming as a bonus point that tulips lack, is that they are perennialized, so they will return year after year. Tulips (we still have 1000 waiting to go in, maybe next week), if you remember, are only a one time flower for floristry, since you pull the entire bulb when they bloom. Some farmers plant 9,000 or more bulbs each year. We feel 1000 will be a good amount for us. Anyway, as I was typing this paragraph, I looked up at Perriee and said, what about a daffodil you-pick? That got my heart jumping happily, just uttering the words.

This week has been full and good and I hope so much that yours was too. Please understand that the goodness we find in our days does not blind us to the realities of things happening in the world. We see it and feel it deeply on a daily basis. We live it. Saying that, we really appreciate this opportunity to share the corner of our lives that excites us the most and literally is the reason for going on (in addition to sharing the Earth with all of you) in spite of the “yuck”. It feels a little like fiction sometimes, painting this picture for you, of flowers and kitties and ducks and nature preservation, but that is exactly the power of art. The act of creating art is like making magic, literally creating the world to look like one that you want to live in.

That is our approach to cultivating this land we care for. Every seed, bulb, and root that goes into the earth on this farm is akin to a stroke of paint with a brush upon the canvas of Loving Farm. Perriee and I are creating a place that you will visit and stop and stare at a flower or a tree or an insect the way you might gaze at an Okeefe or a Kahlo at the museum. This is also why we are so excited to host events that give people a chance to create something for themselves and hopefully wake you up to the fact that the things you do here are also possible in your own backyard too.