Where to find us/ Important dates:
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 and will have a mix of fresh and dried flowers to work with. You are going to want one for yourself. Time slots of four people are at 12:30, 1:30, 2:30, 3:30, 4:30 and are $20.00 each. Spots are filling up so make sure to pay as soon as you sign up to secure your spot!! Sign up here!
June 1st 2026: Next email subscriber giveaway winner chosen!
June 5th 2026: Fresh Fridays night market in Maysville, KY on 2nd st from 6-9!
June 12th 2026: Come watch a super cool bike race from Sawstone Brewery and paruse the vendors, including Loving Farm (Perriee will be holding it down solo you while I work the race)!
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 in addition to other ways we incorporate conservation on our farm. It is free to attend and our favorite vegan food cart will be here selling her delicious food. I have a fun document started with a list of things we do here to show you when you come (water catchment, pollinator patch, companion planting, filter strip, and more). Sign up here!
Hello Flower Friends!!
Mother’s Day has come and gone. Thank you to everyone out there who “mothers”: people, animals, and the earth. Thanks to all of you who “mother” us. We feel your love. Our Mother’s Day was spent at the brewery where we set up a flower bar with our little offering of spring flowers. I cannot imagine how other flower farmers do it, knowing how much time it takes the two of us getting ours together, planning for 20-30 small bouquets. I have been following all of the stories on social media of florists and farmers alike this week, grinding with all of their might to get through this holiday. Seeing it all makes us grateful to be growing slowly. We are happily maxed out over here, doing the most we can to keep the wheels turning on the little bit we have growing. Shout-out to The Valley Floret for sourcing some filler from us this week! We love local pickups at the farm!! I don’t know how, but we even took a small load up to the Kentucky Flower Market and have some pre-orders to take next week too!
In spite of it being super jam packed, we wake up each morning, so excited to see what all we can get done in the day, trying to take on only what we can handle, wanting to do all the things. It is a gift to live the days doing what makes us happy and fulfilled.
After getting our Arbor Day trees in the ground this week, we had a surprise arrival of more plants from Tennessee Nursery from a buy-one-get-one sale we forgot we ordered from. It showed up while we were planting tiny mountain mint plugs that have been lingering around since late winter (we started way too many, but in the ground they go!). Somehow, we managed to get a million seeds going too. Melons, squash, more celosia (you only live once), old globosa from 2023, saponaria (might be too late), blue lace flower, and some surprises. We are not done. More marigold and zinnia seeds showed up from Johnny’s that we will be kicking off next week along with some other fun things that we are going to be growing for a wedding we are supplying for in August.
Mid May takes us to Talon Winery next Sunday where we will be holding flower crown making workshops using our homegrown-chemical-free ingredients. There will be a mix of fresh and dried flowers to work with and I suggest using BOTH! The classes are small, only 4 people per hour, 5 time slots total. We cannot wait to see what people create with all of the stuff we bring!!
Dandelion root tea has been going over amazingly here at home. I highly recommend making some for yourself. You can drink it plain or sweeten it with honey, but either way it just feels good in the body.
Last but not least, we had a cool visit from University of Kentucky this week who brought us some fun tools to use to test both water and monitor light and temperature in the greenhouse. Stoked to see how we can tweak things to grow even better plants!
Pride Update: Everyone is doing great! Topical meds arrived for the 3 outdoor kitties. The ducks are living their best lives apart from Howard as much as possible. He is still horrible. It is not even worth letting him out to forage alone, since he just stands around on the outside of the run, watching the girls on the inside. By November he should be calmed down. Geesh.
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