Tag: farmstay
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Discover the Magic of Tulips in Flower Farming
Important dates: April 19: Second annual Earth Day at Loving Farm. Rain or shine! We have a lineup of 3 bands: Violet and the Newsroom, Hogtown, and Highly Likely for a day of music, nature and friends. Asking for a $10.00 donation for entry to help cover the cost of these amazing artists! We also…
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Building Dreams: From Tiny Homes to Flower Farming
Important upcoming dates: April 1: Next drawing for our email subscribers! Seriously…it is not a joke. April 19: Second annual Earth Day at Loving Farm. We have a lineup of 3 bands: Violet and the Newsroom, Hogtown, and Highly Likely for a day of music, nature and friends. Asking for a $10.00 donation for entry…
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Ducks, Flowers, and More: A Week at the Farm
Important upcoming dates: April 1: Next drawing for our email subscribers! Seriously…it is not a joke. April 19: Second annual Earth Day at Loving Farm. We have a lineup of 3 bands: Violet and the Newsroom, Hogtown, and Highly Likely for a day of music, nature and friends. Asking for a $10.00 donation for entry…
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Volunteer Days: Building Community Through Gardening
Wow y’all, our volunteer days were amazing. Thank you! We got so much done in a few hours, including sitting down for lunch together in the Warehouse. The coolest part about it is that just from sharing this newsletter with you, people showed up with shovels, snacks, and skills. With your help we laid down…
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Keeping flowers fresh on the farm.
Helloooo sunshine! It has been so beautiful outside. This week, we attended the last of our Monday cut-flower webinars and learned a good bit about seed storage. Spoiler alert, we have room to improve! Hey, at least we don’t leave them in the Flower Studio, as that is the most unregulated place temperature-wise, ninety-nine percent…
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Exciting News: Kentucky Flower Market Opens Soon!
I know, I know, its been cold. You can tell it is extra frigid when you wake up and George is still here for breakfast. He likes his own space, wherever that might be if he can help it. Good news though- the Kentucky Flower Market (KFM) is opening in less than a month and…
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Farm Week Recap: Weather, Maple Tapping, and Tree Pruning
It has been a full week here at the farm, culminating with a massive weather event that saturated the field down by the creek. It might have briefly flooded early Sunday morning judging from the way the sunchokes are laid down in the field, but overall we are feeling lucky again to have gotten through…
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Remodeling Our Production Field: Progress and Insights
This week brought us some nice rain and decent temperatures for early February. We moved more compost and straw to get more rows laid down for our remodel of our production field. We have thirteen completed rows with newspaper, straw, compost, cover crop seed and feather meal fertilizer applied. There may be a need to…
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Spring Farming at Loving Farm: Tips and Projects
The farm has been on a slow thaw over the last several days. It has even been so bright that we had to pull out the wide brim hats and put some sunscreen on our faces. We are trying to be better at applying it more regularly. Yes- both of us. Perriee has a horrible…
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Winter was here.
Thank you so much to each one of you who has helped us grow our email list to almost 100! It is a dream come true to be on this journey and we are humbled that you are here with us along the way. The ducks and cats and humans made it through the cold…
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