Important dates:

November 13: “Bring Your Own Bowl Community Meal and Optional Potluck ” in the Warehouse: Celebrate our ninth wedding anniversary with us this year (its the day before)! Pack up a bowl (or reusable takeout container if you are on the go), a spoon or fork, and a cup for some water or tea and bundle up. Stop in the warehouse between 3:30 and 5:30 PM for some food! If you have a dish you would like to share, let us know ahead of time and bring it along with you to put on the buffet line!

It will be vegetarian and probably be beans and rice heavy because we have a lot of it to cook, but Perriee and I are pretty good at making yummy things. Give us an RSVP if you are able so we can plan how much to make. Email or call/text either of us! Super mellow, feel free to eat and run. Our goal is to fill your bellies with warm, yummy food.

December 1: Monthly email subscription giveaway drawing!

December 9 and 10 we are hosting two separate hand-tied winter wreath making classes where you will go home with your very own homegrown wreath to get you through the winter months. There are 6 spots available at each session, both taking place from 2:00-5:00 PM. Register here!

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, food and makers!

Hi Flowerers!

You are hearing from two graduates of the Kentucky Farm Launch class! We celebrated Perriee’s birthday on Monday in Lexington bidding adieu to our fellow classmates. It was certainly bitter sweet, looking forward to having Mondays to work on everything we learned, yet sad to not have an easy way to see all of the amazing farmers we met through it all. In true nerdy farmer fashion, we immediately applied to be a part of a greenhouse growing cohort that one of our University of Kentucky teachers shared with us during that last class. We most definitely want to use our new building to the best of its ability, especially if we can grow some food in there to eat, share, and sell. I sound like a broken record at this point, but want so very badly to grow some greens and root vegetables.

I am so grateful to be in life with the best partner. Between the two of us, we only missed three classes total, two of which were spent visiting other flower farms (Hazelfield and Rutz). We were accepted into the KY Farm Launch program weeks before my cancer diagnosis and Perriee did not let it stop us from learning all we could, heading to the Lexington farm each Monday from the time of my surgery in May through the end of radiation treatment in August. I know a lot of people tend to write off entire years as good or bad, and we most definitely could put this one in the trash due to breast cancer, but honestly, it was pretty awesome when you factor in all of the amazing friends we have connected with, the immense depth of knowledge we gained, and the infrastructure we implemented at the farm this year.

Farming does not stop, even with the close of the warm season. This week we moved a lot of supplies into the new greenhouse and out of the Flower Studio, which we have made so much room to spread out for more design space, although the plan is to throw down some flooring that we have been schlepping around since 2019. It was purchased from the Restore in Newport when we were building out our A-fame. My, how life morphs.

We will be attempting to overwinter our little dahlia patch so we covered the area with cardboard and then with some clean straw, tucking them in until the weather warms. The ranunculus corms we dug up have been rehydrated and replanted into pots that will live in the greenhouse, a real dream. We understand that it is not customary to resuse ranunculus corms from year to year for cut flower production, but we don’t have hundreds of them and they seem to look ok to us. Stay tuned for updates.

One tiny box of them made it through the year having been stashed away in a corner of the seed pile, so let’s see if it works. As we were planting them the other day in the warm greenhouse, it dawned on me why the ones we have grown outside never sprouted in time with the ones folks planted in their high tunnels. We have never had a big yield, consequently. It was too cold in the little low hoops for them to get going before the real cold set in! Don’t ask me why my brain never made the connection before. I am a leaner by doing.

Flowers in this vase: Peony, marigold, golden yarrow, aster, goldenrod, lemon basil, celosia.

Another big thing we knocked off of our bucket list this year was the creation of two pinecone wreaths which we will be selling in time for winter decorating season. They need a sturdy screw or nail to hang upon, as these wreaths are heavy! This is the YouTube video we referenced, which was perfect except there was little warning about how time consuming and sticky it is of a process. Going forward, we will commit to making two per year given that the tree provides us with her seedpods. I think the mental and physical anguish will have dissipated enough by next October to get us inspired to make two more (one each). My hands still have the sticky residue remnants on them which mostly comes off with alcohol. Let us know if you want one.

Anywho… have the best week. Lets close it out with some cute cat pictures!