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). Sign up today!
Hello Flower Lovers!
Reporting today from the local laundry mat! I cannot stand to try to wash one more load of anything in our house machine. We paid to have it repaired over the wintertime to no avail, so it has been hopping across the floor on each spin cycle and I don’t think I want to listen to that any longer! We are probably going to try some online videos to see if we can fix it, but otherwise, let us know if you have a washing machine you need to get rid of! We might be interested. Perriee surprised me with getting the materials to put up a clothesline so that will be a priority in the coming weeks too. It just makes sense that we hang the laundry whenever possible as opposed to running the dryer, especially in the coming summer months.
In flower-news, the weather has provided us with some much needed rain and really nice temperatures which has been feeding the seedlings and seeds perfectly. Things we planted this week: celosia, eggplant, basil, zinnias, potatoes, watermelon, cantaloupe, some buckwheat seed, and probably something else… Buds are forming on the cosmos, the snapdragons are doing things, and the sweet-peas we planted in January are blooming! They are the sweet peas that you can’t eat, just look at and smell, so we don’t bring those into the house in case the kitties would want to taste them (super toxic). Oh yeah- yarrow is finally here too!! It is definitely one of my favorite flowers ever. Easy to start from seed, propagate, and grow in general. Plus it dries well and is amazing fresh and is often used medicinally.
As we are getting ready to start cutting the blooms, I wanted to share a bit on harvest stage. We are by no means experts on all of them, but the ones we have learned stuck hard! The first one that comes to mind was taught to us by one of the folks at The Kentucky Flower Market during our first season there: daisies! I am talking about those daisies that you think about when you hear the word daisy- yellow centers surrounded by white petals on wiggly stems. To harvest for wholesale clients, you would want to cut them and store them in the cooler when one of the petals is starting to open up. If you don’t catch them at that time, you want to cut them before the yellow center becomes fuzzy on the perimeter. The fuzziness comes when pollinators get to them. We are leaving the ones too far gone for seed, since daisies are not cut-and-come-again. Our patch has dwindled over the years and we want to try to rejuvenate it a bit.
Yarrow (another one we learned about harvest stage about from KFM) should be harvested when most of the florets are completely open and stands up to the wiggle test, sort of like a zinnia. If you wiggle it and the flower head remains stiff, you are good to cut it. Too soon, and it will just flop down, completely sad and unusable. Cut your snapdragons when the bottom two-thirds of blooms are open, all to get the best vase life possible!
Shout out to Move Smooth for sending us some samples of their anti-chafing roll-on that we use for everything. I scored a tube of it at the bike race I worked at a couple of months ago and we both have been rolling it on ever since. It feels so good on my face, hands and arms after a big day out in the elements. They are a Cincinnati based company, so we added them to our Support Local Links page. Let me know if you want to try some and I will make sure to get you one. I think the winner of our next subscriber giveaway on June 1 should definitely get one too.
Thanks to Ashley Hart for taking and sharing these beautiful photos of Perriee and I at the Wildwood Faire last weekend! She really captured the essence of the day!
Pride Update:
Howard is still in drake jail. He has escaped his enclosure a couple of times and has proven himself completely not ready to co-habitate with the ladies. He has spent some time with Dayz and Mamma, here and there, since he seems to be a touch less aggressive with them, but Mia and Baby want absolutely nothing to do with him and he is toxically enamored with them both.
The cats are great. We had some kitten sightings in the neighborhood this week so if anyone is looking for a new addition to their pride, holler and we can try to catch one for you if we see them again! Wish we could take them all, but we are stretched thin as it is with the group we have.
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