Important dates:
February 12 or 13: Pick up a pre-ordered dry flower bouquet for your love this week. Holler and we can get something wrapped up for you. ($30 large, $12 small). We also have some homemade turtles to add on if you need to toss in something sweet. Four for $5.00. Email lovingfarm134@gmail.com or 513-264-5791 to order.
March 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.
Dear Flowerers,
We are still riding the struggle bus over here, anxiously waiting for the temps to rise just a hair and for the snow to melt a little to give the duckies a little relief. They are doing so good out there, steady laying one egg a day, having had one nice bath this week when it was decent outside for a day. With the help of some warm water in their pool there was enough melt for them to get in and splash around a little bit.
Days consist of waking up at 7:30, where we do morning stretches and squats. I then bundle up to let the ducks out of their house after which I pop into the Flower Studio to grab some extra water to take to the duck run and uncover the seedling trays that Perriee tucks in at night to keep the rodents from munching on them while we sleep. I count the lisianthus, mist or water things that look sort of dry and head back to the duck run with their fresh water. Then, it is back to the house…I read, check Instagram and the news and the weather, and then bundle up in bed to keep warm.
Partway through the day I will bundle up again, check on the ducks to see if they need some water or food and bring them some mealworms to snack on. Then I walk to the mailbox to see if anything arrived, mostly to get some steps in for the day. Next winter will have to be different. My brain is not enjoying this routine at all and I am ashamed to admit it. I am trying to accept this slow period but it is testing me.
Seedlings are doing well overall. We did get the mint and snapdragons up potted into cell trays and split up some pennyroyal which smells as good as the mint does, maybe even a little better. Pennyroal is not edible, however. Just smellable. I think we will try to get the elderberry cut back next week with a bit of a warm-up on the horizon. The ranuncluls is also on the struggle bus, turning a little yellow in spots. Hope they can recover. To help, since the weather is warming, I put them into the greenhouse to get that good sun on them and gave them a good douse of fish fertilizer and water.
We have some good things cooking in terms of farm activities and support. There is a controlled growing environment program through the University of Kentucky that our farm was selected for and a field day through the Organic Association of Kentucky this fall we will be hosting. Perriee has also been setting up some touch points with other ag professionals we look up to in order to try our hardest to be on track this season. Busier times are coming. Another new thing we will be trying out if we get accepted is a once per month Friday market in Maysville which begins in April. The application is in the mail.
Pride update: I wish you all could see how much Gray loves George. If she could sleep next to him all day long, she absolutely would. Gray knows when he is waiting for her on the porch. When he comes in, she rubs all over him and follows him from bed to bed, mostly being welcomed, sometimes being kicked out. She will cuddle with any of the guys (Max, Tux, or Oscar) but George is always first choice.
Gray loves George, oh so much.
All she does is crave his touch.
He lets her lay near, by his side,
As long as by the rules she does abide.
When Gray pushes a little too hard,
You hear her scream like a yellow card
Was thrown, as she is forced from their nest, because of her love
Only to return again like a dove
Who never forgets where home is.
Loving Farm 