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! Come say hi!
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. We will definitely be talking about using native plants in flower design too. 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 now!
Hello Flower Lovers!
Thank you all for being so wonderful! One of you fine folks saw in last week’s newsletter that we needed a washing machine and delivered. Seriously, delivered to our house! It might be my favorite washing machine ever, as it came with a Bobby Hill sticker affixed to it and works like a charm! It has been at least since late fall since we have washed a load that did not bang around on the spin cycle. Peace at last! Since they did not charge us anything for it, we sent them home with some bread that Perriee baked that morning, kale, flowers and peas. The buy nothing economy is pretty rad. Please give it a shot the next time you are in the market for something or have something you no longer need that might be of value to another person! Yes, it saves money, but also just saves stuff from going into a landfill and let’s be honest, new stuff just doesn’t hit the way it used to.
We spent Monday on the patio at Sawstone Brewing Co. with a few mixed bunches of flowers and some celosia starts. Thank you to everyone who stopped by to pick up a little something and thank you Sawstone for having us. It was just what we needed. In another direction of Kentucky, we took several bunches of flowers to Ronnie’s Corner Market on Friday and are so delighted to be back in business with them. Last season was such a mess dealing with all of the cancer stuff, so we just did not have the space to fit that into our crazy schedules. If you are reading from Cincinnati or Northern Kentucky and want some of our flowers, that is the place to snag one of our bouquets. This week they were full of yarrow, bachelor buttons, and snapdragons. Who knows what will be in them next time? Mother Nature will tell! I think she said cosmos were going to be in them soon! We might not make it up there every week, but hope to get a nice supply going up there for the season.
In flower news, the rain has stopped. Probably forever (slightly joking) and we are in a push to get all of our current seedlings in the ground. Per usual we overdid it on celosia and basil, but is it really overdoing it? We are currently harvesting yarrow and the first cosmos are coming (albeit short for now) and there are buds on a dahlia and some marigolds! Our little stand of mixed snapdragons are the most beautiful thing we ever saw and make the cutest bouquet! They are not any special variety, just a mix of heights and colors and a little spindly, but they sure are pretty. I think we are ready to try something a little more fancy next season after seeing that these worked out ok. Rudbeckia is budding, as well as the crazy daisies and marigolds.
The vegetable game has been great here this season, so far. Still not quite enough for the CSA share but it has not been going to waste. There have been snap peas, so much kale, lettuce, and turnips! Oh my gosh I LOVE turnips (and their greens, which have been going into the freezer). The eggplant starts that were so beautiful have not surprisingly been hit with flea beetles. We will see if they can survive it. I read that lacewings and ladybugs like to eat flea beetles so they won’t go hungry here. We interplanted a bunch of them with the turnips and dill to help as well. Also, just knocking them off seems to work out ok. We planted the nicest row of tomatoes and peppers we have ever had (starts, courtesy of our neighbor). I kind of feel like it might work out this year!
Pride (and flock) update: Dayz had something in her eye this week which we treated with saline flushes and antibiotic eye drops. We think it was a tiny piece of straw. It went from normal to horrible to perfectly fine again in less than 36 hours. She has also been enjoying some egg-sitting time this week. It is pretty cute how they seem to enjoy that as a pastime. Max also had a bum eye for a couple of days. We treated his eye the best we could with treat bribery and squirms and thrashes. The ole, “did it go in?” situation. Anyone else know how it is trying to give a skeptical cat medicine? He is also all better. Just so dramatic.
Here’s to an amazing week!
Loving Farm 