Important dates:

January 31, 2026: Last day to order your Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) share: For $52 (4 bouquets) we are offering a bi-weekly bouquet beginning on May 1 or May 8, 2026, with our last pickup on June 19th. We have 10 total shares for sale. Place your order now via email, and we will send you the payment link to complete your purchase and get you on the list!

With each share you will receive 4 paper wrapped market bouquets throughout spring which you will pick up in the Warehouse or Flower Studio here at the farm.

February 1, 2026: Monthly giveaway winner drawing.

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!

May 17^th: The Wildwood Faire at Talon Winery and Vineyards in Lexington, Kentucky. We will be there hosting flower crown workshops

Hi Flowerers!

This completed our first week back to work since our holiday fun has ended and it was pretty good.

Funny story. We placed an order for some hazelnut bushes that shipped this week. We really thought we ordered 30 so Perriee and I spent most of Tuesday digging 30 holes for them after getting the shipping email the day prior. Come to find out, we actually paid for three plants (I swear the invoice reads “10 cell Ellepot” which we thought meant a whole tray of 10 plants). Except for that confusion, they are really nice looking hazelnuts (2 Monmouth (shout out to Newport, KY) and a Beast (sounds juicy)) and much larger than we expected overall. At least we made sure they will cross pollinate and the company was great with planting instructions to make sure of it. If all works out with these nuts we will go back for more. It was just sort of one of those moments. We have 27 holes ready for the next arrivals that will be here before we know it.

Some more seeds have been sown. More sweet peas, some of which are from a fellow local farmer’s mom’s house that we helped clean around a couple of years ago. They may be perennial and when we soaked them the seeds looked awake before planting them. Gosh I hope they sprout! The lisianthus are still hangin in there, maybe 4 having germinated. We are going to be patient, hoping for a wave of arrivals here in the next couple of days but after the 20 day mark on the 17th, I am going to wonder if we put too much vermiculite on top of the seeds. Maybe they didn’t get enough light?

Perriee suggested moving the light down lower, so we are going to plastic wrap the tray as opposed to the humidity dome and then drop it down a little closer. I think it is a brilliant idea and had recently seen another grower do this. Stay tuned!

Blue Sea Holly is sown in addition to some pennyroyal and snapdragons. There are three baby rosemary sprouted under the grow lights! The ranunculus are still stealing the show in the greenhouse and we have a couple of aromatic basil chilling on the kitchen counter, sprouting new sprouts each day. The plan with those is to get a couple of nice plants going inside this winter to potentially take cuttings from when it is time to plant basil outdoors after frost. We have talked about this for a couple of years now, so this is a fun experiment.

I am already on my swing of, “nothing is going to grow” and “we are about to grow it all this season” but oh my gosh it is only January! There is still so much time. Otherwise, we are sill knocking out little projects here and there, one being getting one screwing in a piece of wood into the Warehouse so we could close the last window that was flopped open. The black vultures used it last year to nest in and although it was so special to be chosen as their nursery, it was a little precarious having people in there at the same time as their penguin looking babies who grew up in the stripping room.

Speaking of, we also started ripping some paper down off of the inside walls of the stripping room which is both thrilling, getting to see the light coming through the slats in the exposed boards and scary, not being able to tell if the floor beneath us is solid or if there is a groundhog hole fixing to open up. The last of the old doors from our upgrade last spring have been moved out of the middle of one of the aisle ways near the Warehouse front door, kinda propped up against the walls for now. We definitely are in prep mode for Earth Day already, talking about it just about all the time. Hope you’ll come! If anyone wants to volunteer to help with parking that day for a couple of hours, we will trade in flowers! Two to three people would be perfect. We can set you up with a tent and some chairs and snacks (thanks to youse who did it last year for nothing!). Let us know if that sounds fun for you.

Otherwise, we have been weeding beds (bachelor buttons are looking good), started a new bed, we’ve been admiring the cover crop on some others, covering soil where its exposed, and we staked the ends of our production rows with (mostly) tobacco stakes because it’s Kentucky! We are so lucky to have had so many left here to use. A farmer in Iowa probably won’t have them just laying around in their barn (correct me if I am wrong!). It also made me ponder what regionally specific things are in other barns across the country. Ahh how the mind wanders…

Pride update: The cats have settled into their new spot on our lambskin that we brought downstairs for the holiday. Max matches it beautifully. They have not destroyed our puzzle yet and neither have we.