Where to find us/ Important dates:
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 peruse 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).
Hello Flower Lovers!
Thank you to each person who purchased a spot at our flower crown workshop at the Wildwood Faire! We have never had such a full event and are beyond grateful for the support!! I cannot stand working with money, but it literally is what keeps our lights on, our oil changed and the cats fed, so I guess we need some of it from time to time. We are humbled. I want to post each picture of the people with the crowns that they made but I am always so reserved about putting people out there more than they need to be. The interweb is weird these days! If you see me out in the real world, let me know if you want to see them. They were magnificent and once again proves that we are all so wildly creative when given the right tools.
Every day this week felt like a holiday, barely able to sleep, looking forward to the days’ tasks: cutting flowers, prepping flowers, making flower crowns for the Wildwood Faire, going to the Kentucky Flower Market and the native plant nursery (Ironweed Nursery in Waddy, a relative of one of our KFM flower farm friends), and even planting a few things into the ground! Among all of the farming, we even had some good times visiting with friends. Oh- we also got the drip irrigation in!!!
That old globosa seed that we planted last week is germinating beautifully along with three types of melons. No promises on the melon, but geez it would be awesome if we could grow some! We are still babying a LOT of seedlings but the temps finally seem safe enough to put the tender annuals into the ground. We got a 128 each of basil and celosia in on Saturday! Summer is coming. Next season we know better to time our seed starting of those guys to match up more readily with Mother’s Day. I get it now. That goes for things like celosia, zinnias, cosmos, marigolds, and basil. The sweet annie, snapdragons, statice and lisianthus we planted weeks ago could care less about a 39 degree night and actually likes it. Ahh, the ole, “next season” plan.
Game on for the August wedding. The couple requested that we fill some planters with flowers to butt up against the tent poles at the venue (TBR BABY!). The first two planters are filled with soil and have seeds in them. We are trying out some borage, nasturtium and okra, which we may have to refresh as we get closer to the event but wanted to see how it goes. Three more trays of seeds have been started for it out of the seeds we purchased specially for their day: marigolds, zinnias, and more cosmos.
Pride update: Gray got in a little extermination time in the duck run. She got two mice out of there on Friday with a quickness. We tested Howard’s ability to co-habitate with the ladies and he unfortunately failed miserably. He still gets to be close to them and gets his fresh food and water on the daily. Just a few more weeks, hopefully.
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