Important dates:

March 1, 2026: Monthly email subscriber 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 2026: The Wildwood Faire at Talon Winery and Vineyards in Lexington, Kentucky. We will be there hosting flower crown workshops.

September 3, 2026: OAK Field Day at Loving Farm where we will be talking about the development of a filter strip along the railroad track. More info to come!

Dear Flowerers,

Warning, there are a lot of exclamation points this week. The flower cooler is running!!!! Our friend, and Coolbot extraordinaire came over with another friend, his partner, (who we got to hang out with during the process((bonus)) and got it hooked up and running this week. This all happened on Tuesday which seemed to be a great day for a lot of folks in our orbit. Maybe it was the culmination of so many cultural holidays at once and some good energy circulating around it all. I painted the floor and back wall of the cooler the following two days, to seal up as much exposed OSB as possible (it tends to swell in humidity). We might build an insulated floor for it this winter, but I think we can get by as it is this season. Another addition will be to hang a plastic curtain across the width of it where the door from the outside is to help prevent some rushes of cold air escaping when we have it running and need to get in. Additionally, we are adding some foil insulation in the back where it is just a bare wall, exposed to the outside. Surely there will be a learning curve, never having had the pleasure of working with a cooler, but we will figure it out as we do everything. Slow and steady. Regardless, it all feels so official!

I used the remainder of the paint to coat the floor in the old seedling room in the Flower Studio which we will be converting to an official dried flower room. A solar fan to blow some humidity out should work nice, we’ll hang some wire to hang dry things, build a few shelves and migrate all of our dried flower stock in there. We did have some tongue and groove flooring that we had purchased for the A-frame we were going to put in there, but it is time to part ways with that. For the purposes of dried flowers, we need a floor with as few cracks in it as possible, so painting will be our most economical and practical way for that space. If anyone wants a few mismatched boxes, send us an email or phone call to claim it ($free99), otherwise it is heading to the thrift store as a donation.

The seedlings look amazing still, being moved back and forth between the greenhouse and the Flower Studio with the yo-yo temps. The time they have spent in the greenhouse seems to make them all very happy though, which is so encouraging. It is currently not heated, but after a couple of weeks, it is becoming clear when one could use a heater.

It seems like a good combination of heat, water, light and nutrition, in addition to timing things more appropriately is really paying off this year so far. Some time was also spent this week really working hard on crop planning with a spreadsheet from the Organic Association of Kentucky (OAK), after a quick refresher via a video meeting from a member of their amazing team. There have been a lot of a-ha moments where things feel like they are clicking all of a sudden!

Hot off the heatmat germinations this week are pink-plume celery, dianthus from seeds Perriee scored at the OAK conference, and sweet Annie, one of Perriee’s favorites that she has been wanting to try. We had those seeds last season but missed the window to get them started.

Exciting news I feel confident in sharing is that we are going to be flowering for a wedding in August! We will be sure to share all of the design updates as they develop. You already know that we ordered some fun zinnia and cosmos, and sunflower seeds in addition to a couple of other new-to-us seeds we hope we can get growing for it. Perriee and I decided we can book one wedding a year, so this is THE ONE! To get us and the couple all inspired, we invited them over for a little complementary flower and snack visit and tour of the farm. We are so excited!! I feel like having the wedding on the horizon is going to be the accountability we need to really focus on succession planting and timing too.

Thank you all for the feedback on the Pecan Turtles and for the upcoming orders we get to put together in the next couple of weeks. They are 4/$5.00 with homemade caramel and melted milk chocolate. PS, after comparing the price of the pecans we picked up at Kroger to the ones at Yoder’s, we are sticking with Yoder’s. They are basically the same price and it always feels better shopping small.

Pride Update: Gray is back on house-rest for a bit, having come home not wanting supper over the weekend, which is completely abnormal for her. We are hoping it is just a flare-up of her feline-corona virus, but we will let the doctor determine the best course of treatment if she does not perk up. It breaks my heart when they don’t feel good. I did request that she just use her words to tell me what was up, but alas, she chose not to. Why can’t they just tell us?

***Update Monday morning**** Miss Gray ate her breakfast! All of it. Shew. She can still be on house rest for a day or two….