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 9 shares left 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 25th, 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 17th: The Wildwood Faire at Talon Winery and Vineyards in Lexington, Kentucky. We will be there hosting flower crown workshops
Hi Flowerers!
Ok, NOW the lisianthus has started germinating. No kidding, it is real this time. As of Saturday, we have counted about 25 teeny tiny little seedlings. Lowering the light and putting them on a heat mat worked! Once we are at about 75%-90% germination overall, we will take them off the heat and give them a little bottom water with some fish emulsion as a snack. I am not ready to get in the lisi plug business just yet, but however this experiment turns out, the experience of seeing how they work from seed to seedling to hopefully flower is worth the learnings we get from it all. Although we are not in the official Ellen Frost (an amazing florist who only uses local flowers in her designs) FlowerMore group, you can definitely call us “Flower Nerds”. We are there in spirit (and get her email).
The Blue Sea Holly has germinated and moved off the heat mat. Oh my gosh I hope we can get this drought tolerant, hard soil loving perennial plant going. It is going to be a gem if we can! Other little seedlings that have joined the 2026 Loving Farm flower party are snapdragons, gold yarrow and Pennyroyal (European though (bummer), so we probably wont be planting a lot of it out where it can spread).
Newly seeded tbds are mountain mint (a lot of it, two varieties in a whole flat of starter mix) leeks, thyme, and cumin (third time’s a charm). Our shelf is filling up already! Pearly everlasting is chilling in the fridge to be sown soon, in addition to some clematis I harvested from our old neighbor’s house last summer. Have you ever seen a pearly everlasting seed? We have 100 of them and they are TINY. The list goes on and on…wild quinine, lupine, joe pye weed are all waiting for a spot as well. We are crazy flower nerds. That is a fact. Oh, a smokebush arrived this week but we are holding it in the greenhouse until the coming cold snap passes before planting it. It is a beaut!
Perriee and I spent some time doing some business planning this week and have some big goals set for this season requiring the biggest volume of plants to grow that we have ever grown in order to reach it. Mother Nature permitting, these snapdragons might play a role in it, provided we can get them supported properly as they grow (provided we can grow them out of their seedling stage). I know we are no where near being the best growers out there, but how can I convey to you all that our hearts are into this. Our passion for growing flowers is so strong. We are both intoxicated with the desire to cultivate and nurture plants to share with the world. Thank you for being a part of it all.
The more we participate in this local flower movement, the more we understand how important it all is. Your support of any local grower does so many things. The money spent supports the farmer and their community. Think of all of the wildlife that is being nurtured through the diversity of the plants being grown on that farm! Plus, when you buy local flowers they don’t have to be shipped in an airplane saving so much impact on the environment (so much gas!). I have read some about the use of pesticides in conventional flower farming and it dawned on me that they are probably not only controlling for pests that could harm the plants in whatever country that they are grown in, but also for ANY insect in order to prevent them from being transported to their final destinations. Here is a link to a Guardian article I recently read about the hazards to florists who frequently work with those imported flowers.
Exciting news: we sold our first spring CSA share EVER this week so are now down to 9 spots. Contact us to reserve your spot today!
Pride update: everyone is doing great and staying warm. The new guy in town has been visiting more often. We call him Eddie. The neighbors call him Grandpa. I think our cats are starting to accept him. He is so cute and BIG! Little reminder to keep the pool open for your ducks in the cold too! They need to get in the water to help get their feathers stay oiled, which they do when they preen after a nice dip in the pool. Cold plunges are a duck’s middle name.
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