Where to find us/ Important dates:
September 1st 2026: Next email subscriber giveaway winner chosen!
September 3, 2026: OAK Field Day at Loving Farm from 9-12. I think registration is closed because it is full (yay), but if you still wanted to come, feel free to stop by for the social event afterward and purchase some lunch from our favorite vegan food cart cook who will be featuring some local ingredients from Sunflower Sundries. (12-2pm).
September 4: Next Fresh Friday Market on 2nd Street in Maysville, Kentucky. 6:00 pm- 9:00 pm. We are sort of on the fence about this month’s market due to the fullness of September so far. Please go regardless!
Saturday, September 12th: Disco night at Turtleback Ridge Brewery. There will be music and vintage vibes and of course, some flowers!
Saturday, September 19th: Bourbon, Boots, and Blues 12:00pm-5:00pm. Shelby County Fairgrounds. The Kentucky Black Farmer Association is hosting this fun day full of vendors and music after the vending is over!
Saturday, September 26th. To celebrate the harvest moon, we are teaming up with Graceful Serenity Yoga for a half day retreat hosted here at the farm filled with flower crown crafting using our homegrown ingredients, yoga, herbal teas and a sound bath! Register here.
Sunday, October 11th: “Birds of a Feather”, Mini Market and Music at Loving Farm featuring Nat Lefkoff in collaboration with Presa Ceramics. (2pm – 8 pm) The food and drinks and entertainment and market are all so exciting. We are 99% sure we will have our favorite face painter here as well. It is going to be a whole thing. Limited camping available! Email us for reservations!
Saturday, October 17th: Hainted Harvest 3:00-7:00 with storytelling by Derby City Midnight at dusk: Turtleback Ridge Brewery
Hello Flower Lovers!
Another amazing week is in the books. It feels amazing to say, “living the dream” and not be sarcastic about it as I used to be when working the ole 9-5 (RIP Dolly) a couple of years ago. I cannot even recall how many times I used to use that phrase in past jobs, and today I literally do live in a dream during my waking hours. In what other world does one get to grow and sell fresh cut flowers AND go to the state fair TWICE in a week with some of your favorite folks in the whole world? Yeah, we did that.
Have you been to the fair? In this age of AI, it is even MORE exciting to see all of the tangible things that people can make and/or care for with their hands and brains. There are cakes, honey, quilts, all forms of flowers and plants, vegetables, livestock, wind chimes, cross stitch, knitted and woven things, canned foods and more, all made and cared for by our neighbors from Kentucky. It all feels both competitive and collaborative, being so Kentucky Proud of your friends and family who enter items to be judged for a ribbon, all while carrying that pride for everyone who threw their hat in the ring, knowing we are all from the same state, cheering one another on.
After a week off at The Kentucky Flower Market, Perriee and I listed enough to get one solid pre-order of sulfur cosmos to take to Frankfort on Tuesday. We cut a few other things to bring along as extras to leave on the market floor and sold an additional 7 bunches throughout the week. Two of our 3 bunches of gomphrena (aka globe amaranth aka globosa- how does this flower have so many names?) did not make the cut (amazing pun, if I do say so myself) due to too many droopy heads, but we came home with a little more knowledge about good harvest stage and took them home to dry them. That third bunch? It sold. We learn so much from our collective all the time and love how they work so hard to ensure that the blooms moving through there pass a tough quality test.
Thursday we got to pop in at the brewery to check out how the arch, sign and railing fared over the week. Perriee and I were both pleasantly surprised to see it all looking pretty stellar, many of the blooms just drying in place so beautifully, the amaranth hangin just right. We took a couple of buckets of freshies with us to pop in here and there to offer a little burst of color for the weekend and cleaned up some fresh flowers still remaining in some bucket arrangements, but overall, loved how it all still looked.
Flowers are magnificent in their ability to maintain shape and color in spite of existing out of water. How amazing is it that those decorations from the wedding the week prior did not head straight to the compost after the party was over? It is a dream working with people that can appreciate the continued beauty of an installation in all of its stages. It is the epitome of low-waste in a throw-away-buy-new world that we live in.
The week is ending on another high note, having spent the day Saturday at our friend Kristen’s open house at Lotus Springs/Graceful Serenity Yoga in Robertson County. This is the same person coming here next month to do our half-day retreat at our farm. It was a kickoff event for her retreat space that she has created, which was amazing. It is situated 4 miles from the brewery and 5 miles from Sunflower Sundries. A real trifecta of nice businesses in an “off the beaten path” area, if you asked me.
Usually after a long day at a market, we come home kind of deflated, but felt so relaxed and recharged after getting back home from Lotus Springs, having got to participate in the free yoga and sound bath and check out the astrologer and healing touch folks. We set up a flower bar for people to make their own arrangements with, which was a treat for all of us! We love watching people make art with flowers and even got to do a little flower art ourselves at some people’s requests!
Sunday will have been another day in the car to attend the Dirt Pearls dinner in Irvine, Kentucky. Stoked to get to meet up with the other gems who have been featured by Erica Chambers. I’ll have to update you next week on how that went as I am wrapping this up ahead of that time to get it scheduled for you to read on Monday morning.
Pride and flock update: So everyone but Dayz is molting now. Maybe this is what Howard needs to finally cool off for the season. They said it was ok for us to save their feathers for upcoming crafting days, be it a wreath or a flower crown. I picked up Baby’s first white feather on Saturday. Bless their little bodies, they are all just a little slower and uninterested in foraging as much, putting their energy into growing their new outfits. Mamma is almost done, looking nice and chocolaty brown right now. George finished his medicine because he is amazing and his head wound is all closed up and healed. Gosh I just love them all so much.
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