Important dates:
March 24, 2026: First drop off of preorders at the Kentucky Flower Market!
April 1, 2026: Monthly giveaway winner drawing.
April 3, 2026 (6pm-9pm): First Fresh Fridays Maysville on 2nd Street. There will be pecan turtle candy there.
April 25th, 2026: Third Annual Earth Day Celebration at Loving Farm!
May 17th 2026: The Wildwood Faire at Talon Winery and Vineyards in Lexington, Kentucky. We will be there hosting flower crown workshop sessions. Sign-up’s coming soon.
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,
We have three orders of Pecan Turtles left for sale this week. They are 4/$5.00 and they are AMAZING! Small batch, hand made caramel, stirred to perfection by Perriee. Claim them TODAY! Call, email, or text.
Friday was the official Kentucky Flower Market (KFM) grower meeting at the shop in Frankfort. This year the KFM has 30 farms participating in the collective. That is a lot of flowers. We are really excited to give it our all this season between the KFM with flowers, Maysville market on the first Fridays of the month, participation in the Woodhill International CSA with some bread and vegetables, and some trips to Northern Kentucky sprinkled in there with some local blooms for our friend Kara at Scarlet Begonia’s in Covington. If you don’t see us outside of those places for a few months, that is why.
The un(?)seasonably warm weather has led us down a few paths of adjustment and discovery this week. The flower cooler was not holding temperature when the outside was in the 60s, so we purchased a new air conditioner. We tried to use an old one we had first, which will be going back to the Flower Studio window for the summer. It will not be long until we are harvesting tulips so it was a decision we had to make quickly. They look good and are growing fast in this weather!
The greenhouse we purchased has a thermo-controlled exhaust fan in it which we tried out for the first time. It works really good considering the sun that hits the building which really heats it up. We just constantly move plants around depending on the time of the day, the weather conditions and temps. It helps me get my steps in. Most everything sleeps in the greenhouse, but we move the snapdragons, ranunculus, the most beautiful tray of kale we have ever grown, calendula, and lisianthus (all who want to say on the cooler side) outside on the metal table to catch the breeze and some lower digits.
We up potted the Sweet Annie and celery into big kid trays, trayed up celoisa and dill seeds, and do our best to keep them all happy with the correct amount of moisture. It is a dance that we both freaking love so much. Thanks for being a part of it all.
Question… who likes those Winstrip trays? I put the celosia seed in one and it dries out soooo fast! Maybe when it moves off of the heatmat it will fair a little better. Are they supposed to sit directly on a rack without a bottom tray? Any advice is welcome. We bought three of them and would love to be in on all of the excitement about them. I feel like I am missing something.
Congratulations to Perriee’s grandma, Odessa, for rocking out 99 years on this planet. She is so inspiring and loving and I am so honored to have been a part of celebrating with her and her family. As a reminder, International Women’s Day is March 8 which I never heard about until I visited my family in Italy in what I remember being 2002 or so, where they celebrate by gifting the mimosa flower to all of the women. I was so taken a back when my cousin gave my sibling and I flowers that day, never having heard of such a holiday. Glad it made its way over the great Atlantic. This whole year is being dedicated to women farmers, in case you haven’t heard about that either.
Pride update: Gray is sooo much better! She is back to stealing Tuxie’s food and wallering all over George whenever he comes inside. What a difference some good medicine makes. We love our vet at Licking Valley Veterinary Services, where we took her the last couple of times. Dr. Glaza always does his best to put our fur and feathered friends back together and the staff is always so kind to knock out the road poo out of a blanket or towel and send us home with a fresh pad and a tightly knotted bag of our soiled belongings. If you have been in a car on a long ride with a duck or any pet with a GI thing, you know what I am talking about here! Make sure to check out our Loving Farm Pride Program if you want to support them. It is a pretty good deal too.
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