Happy Friday y’all, We’ve been hot and rainless for quite awhile now and it dawned on us that we had some work to do as a result. As I was getting some red on my neck while patching up old irrigation lines to the peonies, I couldn’t help but notice I was experiencing an odd amount of joy finding the leaks in the drip tape, cutting space for a coupler, and letting the cool water wash all the dirt off my fingers before coupling the line back together. Each time it felt as refreshing as diving into a cool alpine lake. Not sure why it was that powerful, but I made sure to bask in that feeling each of the...

Happy Friday y’all! Let me start by saying, Wow.  If you’re reading this because you enjoyed the interview with Floret, we extend you the heartiest of welcomes, and I hope we can share some more things worth reading going forward. This interview with Floret has been so meaningful to us! Check out the entire series on Floret's blog. When I was typing away the answers to those incredibly thoughtful and intimate questions about our life on this farm in the wee hours of many nights, I had no idea that it would have the kind of impact it has had. At present there are about 600 incredibly beautiful and heartfelt comments from farmers, gardeners, nurses, auto executives, customers, cousins, former...

Happy Friday y’all! It’s a beautiful blue sky day with little puffs of clouds and bigger puffs of pollen. The forest has burst forth with plumped up pollen bearing catkins, and you can actually see plumes of yellow dust billowing off the trees when a strong breeze sweeps through the woods. Also inhabiting the trees and decidedly more desirable is the Carolina Jessamine vines that are in full bloom. Like a botanical second line marching up the branches of our conifers, these little flowers look like a thousand trumpets that delight with scent instead of sound and subtly remind me that I want to get back to New Orleans at some point. The Carolina Jessamine vines are stunning right now...

Happy Friday y’all! It’s absolutely beautiful out here lately. Blue skies, birdsong, lush green grass, nice breezes. It did get too hot for a bit though. Almost 90 the other day was a tad much. I had to throw shade cloth on a few tunnels to reduce stress on the flowers, since the tunnels reached the high 90s due to the freakish weather.

Happy Friday y’all! Warm week out here with temps in the low to mid 80s, beckoning nature further from its slumber. The peach blossoms are gorgeous and are now being joined by beautiful plum blossoms on nearby trees. This year, some of our stone fruit trees are sporting both white and pink flowers, giving us extra beauty. The reason being is that a lot of these trees are grafted onto root stock which has sent up its own flowering branches and now we’re getting both colors in one tree, which tilted my head and tickled my brain upon first glance. It’s hard for me to photograph well with our camera’s lens, but it is quite lovely. Our stone fruit tree...

Happy Friday y’all! Rinsed fresh with a day and night of steady rain, the last drops just fell and the birds are singing with full throats this morning. A perfect pre-soaking for all the warm days we’ve got coming. In the 10 day forecast, we’ve got 5 days in the high 70s, so poppies will be popping. I saw some brilliant quince blossoms outside the studio and the snowball viburnums are just starting to leaf out. The daffodils are blinking their way into existence throughout the landscape and the field grown varieties are soon to follow. The baby lunaria is making its way up through the mulch. It’s a lovely, albeit squishy, time to be outside.

Happy Friday y’all! It’s been a gloriously beautiful week out here!  The weather has been dazzling in the 70s, with a gentle breeze that takes the edge off the gathering humidity.  Last weekend’s rain, combined with the continued warmth, woke up the creeks and marshland down by the 4th Porch (the little cabin I rebuilt in the woods after a crashing pine demolished the original in ‘21), and filled it with a chorus of frog song that weaves its tunes all the way up to the house clear across the farm.  Feels early for it, but it also fills you with the pleasant sense that dormancy wanes and life awakens. Indeed the plum trees are starting to blossom and the...

Happy Friday y’all We’ve restocked our hellebores!  We unfortunately sold out of a bunch right after the launch and left a bunch of you in want, but we’ve just restocked so you can get another crack at what so quickly vanished!  So happy to make that possible and give y’all more options again.  Check them out and let us know if you have any questions about them at info@3porchfarm.com. Pictured above: 'Dark Picotee' The weather has been lovely this week. Some warm days, blue skies, fluffy clouds, and enchanting low light firmly planted in the ROY portion of ROYGBIV, throwing some dazzling sunsets at us.

Happy Friday y’all! We sent our first flower boxes of 2026 out this Thursday, so they should be arriving at their new homes now! 7 Bundles of poppies and 2 bundles of anemones and a handful of sunset colored ranunculus as a little add on to our dear friend Kali, who as our former studio manager, had packed the last box of 2025 and is now the first customer to receive a box in 2026! Some warmer weather is coming and that should start the crescendo of increasing yield for our flowers, so supplies will start to climb as the weeks pass. Slow at first, then overflowing with abundance, until the end of April, and off a cliff. It’s a...

Happy Friday y’all. Weird to say, but we’ve still got a lot of ice on the farm and now we’ve got 3.5” of snow coming this weekend. Not normal for this part of Georgia. And I don’t know how you northerners live without helmets on at all times, but we’re all slipping around these days and a few of us are finding ourselves on the ground suddenly. Turns out that freezing rain, or sleet, or whatever that was, is nothing like snow. With snow, our heaters in the tunnels will melt it off safely, so the weight doesn’t collapse the metal frame. If it’s gathering too quick for the heaters, or if the tunnel is unheated, we can sweep it...