Where to find us/ Important dates:
May 10th 2026: Mother’s Day flower bar at Turtleback Ridge Brewery (TBR). 1:00 until we run out of flowers. As a gift to the people who mothered you, Turtleback is covering the cost of the first 10 customers who get flowers from our flower bar. There will be peonies! After the first 10 are gone, the bar will cost $8.00/person which will include two peonies or three irises and some spectacular filler flowers (dianthus, chamomile, etc.), all straight from the farm, of course.
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. Sign ups coming soon. Time slots of four people are at 12:30, 1:30, 2:30, 3:30, 4:30 and will be $20.00 each.
June 1: Next subscriber giveaway winner chosen.
June 5: Fresh Fridays Market Maysville 6-9 pm on 2nd. St!
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. Sign up here.
Hello Flower Friends!!
Blessed and busy is the theme of the last week. All week long I think of things I want to share here, but it would take a week to type it all out and no one would read it, so here’s the short version:
First of all we are so excited to set up a flower bar the brewery next Sunday. As mentioned above, Turtleback Ridge is covering the cost of the first 10 customers who come through the line (limit, one bunch per person for the freebies). After that, the cost is $8.00/person for the most perfect bunch of flowers which will include either two peonies, one peony and two irises, or three irises plus your choice of filler flowers. We should have a mix of chamomile, crimson clover, daisies, dianthus, wheat and who knows what other bits and bobs. Come see us, starting at 1:00 until we run out!
In other amazing news you may be seeing a couple of new faces around the farm from time to time, as we are leasing a portion of our farm to some dear friends we met through the Kentucky Black Farmer Conference and then the Kentucky Farm Launch Class last year! If you purchased a vegan delight at our Earth Day festival last month, you already shared some space with one half of their team, Nettie!
ESRAH (Eastern Star Ranch and Homestead), stewarded by Nettie and Damu (her other half) will be keeping a few hives of bees in the middle of Loving Farm. Their farm sits on the Johnson Creek side of the driveway beginning at the land acknowledgment pole going east, to the barn by the duck run. Together we tossed out some bean seeds in the field and planted some elderberry plugs they brought with them to commemorate our new beginning in community with one another. Perriee and I are so excited to see how they grow and are looking forward to having some new energy on the farm (not to mention the years of growing experience they are bringing with them). You already know we share so many of the same values in terms of caring for the land and the earth, in general.
Shoutout to the Farming While Black film for the inspiration behind opening up Loving Farm to other folks who are setting up their own farms for the first time. The film touched on ways to help fellow farmers getting started, and we realized we did not need hundreds of acres of farmland to be able to contribute, especially seeing how little space our small operation takes up out of our entire farm. You can grow A LOT of stuff on a half acre, especially if just starting out. We visited High Five Farm last year together during our farm class and saw it all in action, as they lease land as well and run a beautiful operation full of delicious looking produce and the most gorgeous snapdragons! I can only hope the four of us working in this way will show other folks who care for a lot of unused land that they can do the same. You might even get some freshly grown food out of it, or maybe a jar of honey!
Otherwise, peonies are popping, summer annuals are going outside, and were just doing our best to keep putting seeds in the dirt to keep the ball rolling over here.
Pride Update: The cats are great. Its about time for their monthly medicine, so make sure to check out our Loving Farm Pride Program to see how you can get a month of flowers and bread or popcorn to help our little group stay healthy! The ducks are good. Howard is still out of his mind with spring hormones.
Thank you as always for cheering us on. Loving Farm is so small yet overflows with big ideas and desires to produce big. We love our jobs so much and you being here helps make it all possible.
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