Important dates:

November 13: “Bring Your Own Bowl Community Meal and Potluck (optional)” in the Warehouse: Celebrate our ninth wedding anniversary with us this year! 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 looks like the weather will be pretty chilly. Every year we are allowed to be married is cause for celebration!

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 throwing together 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.

November 29: Small Business Saturday at Turtleback Ridge Brewery: Come make your own wreath or purchase one from us all ready to hang! Shop our catnip kickers and other goodies we will have along with the other vendors who will be there. Portions of every sale or dollar spent to support our small farm go directly to the care of the 5 beautiful kitties and 5 beautiful ducks we care for.

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. We will convene in the greenhouse or the Flower Studio depending on the weather. There will be snacks. 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!

Patience is the word of the week. I did not say it was the victory. Definitely a practice. While working on this week’s post, prior to heading outside to cut furring strips for the ceiling of the cooler, Perriee played the best TikTok about how doing hard things and new things actually helps the brain grow and might prolong life. It could not have been more timely. The flower cooler construction is in full swing, spray foamed, roof insulation up, and the hardest cuts complete. The falling temperatures have been the biggest catalyst in getting us moving on the next steps to get it completed but the impossible tasks to get there have been daunting. Luckily, we have had a great friend who has volunteered his expertise to be a text away with all of our questions and of course, YouTube videos are also being consulted at each step for guidance as well, just to get a peep at the general processes. It helps.

The thing that irks me the most about working on things never done before is that it is completely normal to do something the first time and make mistakes, but projects like these are not meant to be repeated! We only intend on building one flower cooler, not several, so we just have to sit with the quirks that will come along with this current unfamiliar task. I know it will be fine. This is not our first rodeo. Together, Perriee and I have built a 16×16 a frame cabin, remodeled a bathroom at our old house, constructed a 16×24 ft duck run and the house within it, a 32×32 ft deck, and have refinished and painted more walls than we could count. Even still, the anxiety that goes with the unfamiliar never goes away though. Anyone else?

A whole day this week was basically spent reading the installation manual for the FRP and making a list of materials needed from the big box store and an awesome neighbor helped us move the things that were too big for the hatchback (4×8 panels) with their pickup truck. It was like supermarket sweep, finding all of the materials on our list while our neighbor patiently waited by our cart. Dreams do come true!

Things we have done which we were unsure of going into but feel pretty good about having behind us is the application of the spray foam insulation behind the walls of the trailer and we have the ceiling insulation cut and snugged into its spots between the ceiling “rafters”. It was an impossible task that we completed. Next steps are to hang the fiberglass reinforced plastic (FRP) and then we will paint the floor with an epoxy coat before having the pieces that actually cool the room installed. The goal is to have it running for the first tulips of the season which could arrive as early as March. I am completely disgusted with the dust that these panels make when you cut them, which is likely a huge part of the apprehension from doing it. I will say, they do look nice when they are up and I am sure this cooler is going to be nice when we are done with it, even with us practically winging it along the way.

I have been sarcastically posting pictures on our IG feed about the beauty of flower farming. The weather has been perfect for planting garlic, but it is also perfect for spray foam and panel glue so here we are. This build is on the side of “boring but necessary tasks”. We are not going to concern ourselves with installing shelving this year. If we can fill that cooler’s floor with buckets of flowers needing stored, we are going to be doing pretty dang good!

Luckily we had some good socializing on Sunday in Louisville with some amazing people at an event we were invited to do flowers for (it was a masquerade) and then enjoyed a little more people time on Monday making soap at Sunflower Sundries. We have some fun things lined up for the upcoming week and know that after Saturday, we pretty much have to wait until next Saturday to break out the glue again because it might snow this week. We can plant garlic in the cold. Mother Nature always knows when to give you a break. The goal will be to have the ceiling tiles hung by then since we are just screwing them up. One down as of Sunday, two to go.

Just read a newsletter by some beautiful folks, Clary and Percy, who we found on a Floret Farm documentary and cried the whole way through. I was so touched by their unique journey and also from feeling so close to their story. After a long day working on the flower cooler build with the most patient person I know and the love of my life, my soul was a little lighter and hopeful. When you hear the phrase, “representation matters” that is what it means. Seeing people like us do the things we love is so inspiring. They just opened up their sauna for bookings and I will be looking to see how much plane tickets are to Cape Brenton. That would be a bucket list trip for sure! Lots of catnip kickers and bouquets and wreaths will need to sell, but Perriee and I are pretty resourceful. It could happen.

As an FYI, we made an increase to some of our design prices. As we were working on the arrangements for the event we did last week, we realized it was more fun to make them full with whatever flowers the designs needed to look amazing rather than limit ourselves to stem counts. As always, let us know if you have any questions about that! We posted a few of the designs here for you to see.

Have a great week! See yas on Monday.