Important dates:

December 9 and 10 we are hosting two separate hand-tied evergreen wreath making classes where you will go home with your very own design to get you through the winter months. There is still time! We are so excited to host these classes. Register here!

January 1, 2026: Monthly email subscription giveaway drawing!

April 25^th, 2026: Third Annual Earth Day Celebration at Loving Farm! We will be having a day filled with fun and music, food and makers!

Hi Flowerers!

First thing is first: If you are near Frankfort and want a chance for a catnip kicker, a pinecone flower ornament or one of our wreaths before the season ends, please head to The Kentucky Flower Market next Friday or Saturday to complete your purchase. We will be picking up our goods to take home for the remainder of the winter in the afternoon of Friday, December 19^th. The shop closes for the season soon, so make sure to get over there for one last peep if you need a general fix of that space. It felt amazing walking through the doors of that beautiful shop for the first time in months this past Friday, when we dropped off our crafts, all handmade and homegrown. It is always humbling to have our wreaths hung next to our fellow Kentucky flower farmers’ creations.

The week was otherwise filled with beautiful people, amazing cat snuggles, house organizing and of course, time outside with the ducks in the chilly weather. We have also been brain storming for some future projects, having made a list of things to tweak in the house to make it more energy efficient. We did get a temporary cover over a gaping ceiling hole in the den where we took down some tiles in the spring to investigate a roof leak that somehow has stopped leaking. I don’t know how it sealed itself, but don’t look a gift horse in the mouth, they say. Could have been some sort of magic that happened when our friend went up there to take a look at it. She has a way!

It feels kind of empowering thinking of insulating the underside of the house better, imagining how much money we could save on heating if we get it done. Remember, our goal is not to make as much money as possible. We have turned the page on that plan. Now we focus both equally on generating income, while simultaneously searching for logical and easy ways to require less of it. Additionally, we have a metal screen door which I absolutely love, but there is no storm window in the top. We will be looking through our storm window randos around the house to finally see if we have one that fits, seal around the interior door and look into maybe replacing it altogether with this one. The goal is to complete that list in hopes of being able to get a sauna in time for next winter!

At the moment we are teetering between using a room under the house for a diy build versus purchasing a kit for a barrel sauna which will be installed in the barn by the duck run, linked here. If anyone out there is in need of sauna time sooner and wants to donate one to the cause, you may contact us directly to arrange delivery of that kit. The barn space is pretty much ready to receive a barrel sauna. We will happily assemble it. Then we will sauna- is that the word? All we need is an electrician’s skills to wire it up to the panel. Putting it on solar would be icing on the cake.

Nature is still providing so much joy to us in spite of the cool weather slow down. Daily walks in the cold are becoming necessary for the mind and body, not having so many tasks requiring movement besides duck chores on the list currently. One of our favorite places to walk to is up front in the pollinator patch. Even in this year’s patch of giant foxtail (not in the pollinator seed mix that we are cultivating) which dominated a lot of the space this season, it is a joy to observe. We have been doing manual removal of some of it, but the birds are enjoying it for the moment, so no rush. In a one minute recording from the Merlin app this week we captured Northern Cardinal, American Goldfinch, Carolina Wren, Song Sparrow and White-crowned Sparrow which was a new one for me! It is truly a gift to provide habitat for them during the lean times. Shout out to the Blue Herron we observed in the creek this week too.

The native plants are there! We have spotted seed heads of evening primrose, goldenrod, sunchokes, rudbeckia and partridge pea and found little sprouts of bergamont living in there too. We will be mowing it down closer to spring, in preparation to reseed it with more wildflower mix, but until then are happy to manually manage the invasive plants and leave the rest for the birds and insects to enjoy over the coming cold weeks. If I was you, I would check out the Chronolog time lapse to see where we were about a year ago, not having mowed that space until spring. It was so short and bunchy compared to now. We are in love with it and are so excited to keep improving it for humans, insects and birds and mammals to enjoy, all without the use of chemicals. Another way is possible. The link to the timelapse is always available from our homepage, loving-farm.com, if you want to peep it. Better yet, stop to snap your own picture from the photo station and upload it next time you are passing by. That is exactly what it is there for!

I know that change can feel slow. It is. With a vision and persistence, you can transform anything into something beautiful or functional from your mind’s eye. Those qualities are exactly what Perriee and I share the most of and I believe what we hold most dear in one another. It tickles my brain to think how I am writing so fervently about our pollinator patch at the end of December. We are so lucky to get to enjoy it so easily.

Looking back, our life is somewhat of an 80’s montage, thinking of all of the cool projects we have done as a couple. I recently read (cannot remember where) that some people don’t have the ability to envision things in their mind, transformed into something else. Is this true? I know for a fact there are several of you who absolutely possess this skill, as I have seen your work in person! My mother was my mentor in this, being able to drag things out of the trash and make them beautiful again. That vision is what we tapped into when we came to see this place 6 years ago this month. Instead of a mowed field, we saw a thriving prairie. Give it a try next time you are drawn to a shiny new thing. Is there something you can repurpose and upcycle before buying something? Have you ever built a thing from scratch? Feel free to share if you have!

Anyhow, be on the lookout for some amazing updates, one of which is a short documentary film we were featured in by a student from Morehead State! There were two amazing people who came to interview us about Loving Farm and the film that one of them shared with us nailed it! The same day we received that video (waiting for a link to post and share with you all), we were interviewed by Erica who is working on a documentary project, Dirt Pearls, about women farmers in Kentucky. It is always fun for us, showing someone around and talking about why we love doing what we do. Stay tuned!

Pride update (meow):

It has come to our attention that Max has a look-alike outside. The funny thing is that Elmo lives across the tracks and also looks similar at a glance, but was already tucked in for the night at the time of this sighting. The blondes of Nepton, if you will. This new gentleman and Max were having words outside around dinner time the other afternoon and Max came inside with the biggest tail, really laying it on thick for that guy, who might be a little bit more muscular than Max. Max has always been pushy, yet not too tough when it all comes down to it. The other big cat who had been lurking seems to pass through pretty often, but haven’t seen him close to the house. Oh the drama!