Important dates:
April 19th: Find us at Sawstone Brewery in Morehead for a pre-Earth Day event.
April 25th, 2026: Third Annual Earth Day Celebration at Loving Farm. It is going to be a great day, rain or shine. Visitor Information
May 1, 2026: Monthly giveaway winner drawing and Fresh Fridays Market in Maysville on 2nd St. from 6-9 pm.
May 17th 2026: The Wildwood Faire at Talon Winery and Vineyards in Lexington, Kentucky. We will be there hosting flower crown workshops. We have been practicing with all kinds of fun ingredients. You are going to want one for yourself.
June 20th 2026: Find us at Olla, Covington for their second, annual Pollinator Market! We love our Covington connections and are honored to have been asked to vend that day with everyone.
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!
Tulips and daffodils stole the show this week at our first Fresh Fridays market in Maysville! Thank you to everyone who stopped by to try a bite of turtle candy and to buy a bunch (or two) of gorgeous flowers! If you are in the area and would like a bunch of either, we still have some left. Order anytime soon and we can arrange a pickup for you here at the farm.
Shoutout to Carolyn’s Kountry Florist in Ewing for her first wholesale order from us. It has been several years since we first stopped in her shop to introduce ourselves as growers in the area. It is a testament to how much we have grown to finally be able to confidently offer wholesale flowers to her now. We also received an order through advertising via the Fleming County Chamber of Commerce of which we are a member of. It is such a pleasure working with folks within a few miles of home. We are hyper-local junkies and love supporting our neighbors first whenever possible. We encourage you to do the same to uplift your community.
More seeds have been started: zinnias, sunflowers, lettuce, marigolds. Our little lisianthus from seed are in the ground, eggplant is up-potted, and we spent a huge chunk of the week pulling tulips and then sweating about our flower cooler temps, which ended up working out fine, but we are absolutely going to need some foam board insulation additions before the heat of summer arrives. If anyone has any laying around that you are not using, let us know. We will take them off your hands.
Our Earth Day celebration is quickly approaching and we are so looking forward to hosting all of you who come. In terms of cultivated flowers, there likely will not be a huge explosion of blooms to see, but honestly when folks come to visit us, we like to highlight the native plants and the things that grow naturally more. That is what supports the wildlife that resides here. Dandelions and fleabane are coming on strong and the beebalm and rudbeckia are very visible in our pollinator patch. It has been amazing to see the reduction in mowing since we moved here 6 years ago. We have a couple of spots we keep in mowed grass, but mostly just push mow pathways now and use the cuttings for mulch around our trees. The battle of invasive honeysuckle is still ongoing, but it seems that some wars never end, huh? We will schedule a volunteer day to cut some down in the next month or so.
Listening to the latest episode of Growers Daily on the way home from a birthday party (where we got to connect with so many other earth loving, chemical loathing growers), Farmer Jesse talked about how the decline in insects since the 1970s has led to a massive decline in birds as a result of the use of chemicals in industrial agriculture. Over two billion! I know our little mission over here is like a grain of sand in the grand scheme of things, but being in community with other folks like the ones we sell with at the Kentucky Flower Market or the people we got to hang with at the party the other night really eases my mind and makes us feel like were not as crazy as the billionaires who sell all of those poisons want to make us think we are. There is another way.
Pride update: Gray and her counterparts have been dosed with their monthly medicines! She is a mostly “no touching” kind of a cat, so there was absolutely trickery involved.
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