Where to find us/ Important dates:
November 21st 6:30 pm -8:30: “Winter in a Jar” class at Blue Hour Gallery in Maysville, KY. Space for 12 makers, $40/each! Make an evergreen quart sized arrangement (mason jar or vase, whatever we have) with our locally foraged and home-grown materials. Contact us to reserve your spot today!! Next door to Sol and Sage.
December 1st: Next subscriber giveaway drawing!
December 5, 13, and 16th will be our winter wreath making dates. If you want to reserve any of those spots now, let us know and we can do a soft hold for you! Call or email to reserve. We are keeping attendance at 4 spots per class but can accommodate up to 6 if needed! You know there will be snacks. Once confirmed, you can Venmo us ahead of the date or bring cash the day-of. Keep reading to see some wreaths people made last year.
December 5: two spots left
December 13: FULL!
December 16: four spots left
December 19th: 6:00pm Flemingsburg (by the Dairy Queen): Old Fashioned Christmas. Should we make popcorn balls for sale? You don’t get more old-fashioned than that (I am having a flashback to my Humphry Popcorn Ball from Cleveland that we would get in our stocking every year!). We will use a recipe with marshmallows so they will be soft. Maybe some candied pecans?
Hello Flower Lovers!
Frostmas was celebrated on Sunday, November 9 here at the farm. We managed to squeeze out so many pretty arrangements in between the last frosty night (Hainted Jamboree) and this one. What a fall! It is definitely one for the books in terms of longevity of the summer annuals. We have been slowly prepping all of the cultivated beds in preparation for next season, weeding and cover cropping each row. The oat and crimson clover seeds are germinating even though it feels like we got them in a little late. The tulip bulbs are in and the garlic might be in too by the time this goes out AND the deck might be almost all treated by then too. Setting lofty goals here. It does work.
We have an ask for you this week: Who has some fun evergreens and other winter ingredients that you would not mind us foraging at your place for our upcoming classes? We can trade you a pre-made dried flower wreath, a spot at a wreath making class, or whatever else you have in mind! Things we love but don’t have here: juniper berry branches, any winter berry, holly, spruce tree limbs, fir, and magnolia. We are not high volume, and already have a good base of other things, so a little goes a long way! We will come and get it, so anywhere within 40 minutes of the farm is perfect. Thank you so much in advance!
This week has been tremendous in terms of community connections! On Tuesday we got to speak to the Fleming County Rotary Club. We are doing a presentation at the KSU Small Farm Conference in a couple of weeks, and this was a perfect opportunity to get the slideshow started. It was such a lovely gathering of neighbors, and we are so grateful they took the time to listen to us speak about our farm and love of nature. That was really meaningful. It was at that meeting that we were invited to attend the Old Fashioned Christmas event in Flemingsburg on December 19 and I think we are making popcorn balls to sell with a marshmallow-type recipe. Who wants one?
We also cut some flowers and practiced some designs together before we went to the Fresh Friday market in Maysville on Friday night. First of all, it was Mrs. Roper night for all of you lucky enough to know who that is! Second of all, we chatted with Byron from the Blue Hour Gallery and he has offered space for us to host a class, on November 21st where we will be bringing ingredients for people to make their own evergreen vase arrangement with (“Winter in a Jar”). Thank you Ellen Frost from FlowerMore for the idea (not sponsored, we have just REALLY learned so much from this group so far not to mention, she is just an incredible human)! These are perfect for folks who want to decorate for the holidays but might live in a small space or don’t have a way to put up a whole display. Of course, they will go well WITH a big spread of décor too… You can make one for yourself or as a gift for a loved one.
If you can’t come to the class and want one, let us know. We can make one for you to pick up at the farm too. They are so much fun to make and should last several weeks in the vase. The class and the premade arrangements in a quart size vessel (mason jar, vase, etc.) is $40.00. If you would like a pint size arrangement (maybe for a business, restaurant tables), we can do those for $25.00.
Thank you all so much for being a part of this little newsletter group. We only need 27 more to reach our end of year goal! Isn’t that amazing? You can forward this to a friend who loves supporting local as much as you do. If anyone ever has an idea for a newsletter topic, feel free to email us. Curious about something we grow? Want to learn something about native plants? We are happy to share what we know or point you in the right direction if we don’t.
Pride and Flock Update: Max and Oscar are my shoulder boys, sleeping next to my head, next to one another in the middle of the night. I complain about it every morning and also would not have it any other way. The ducks are gifting us three eggs a day, just in time for our “Chicken Day” family meal in November to have some deviled eggs at the table.
