And so it goes.  The maples have all turned green.  The lunaria’s purple flowers have turned into silver dollars studded with partially formed seeds.  The viburnums’ snowballs have melted. The ranunculus are breathing their last.  Butterfly Ranunculus too.  (Speaking of which, I saw our first monarch the other day.  Always a treat.)  The carpenter bees are attempting to undo 13 years of my efforts, rafter by rafter.  The dogs and cats are adorable as ever.  The guinea that found itself tangled in bailing twine from the neighbor’s field is doing quite well.  I guess I should tell that story.   Last week, Kali saw a guinea that looked like its shoelaces were tied together.  Being expert biologists, Mandy and I knew...

  I’m late to this, so it’ll be brief.  Busy week. Thank y’all for celebrating Easter, Passover, and Ramadan with our Spring flowers!  We sent out a ton of beautiful flowers this week, but we’ve still got more beauty to share, so we’ll be having a flower sale in the store tomorrow.  It’s gonna be stormy, but if you wanna pick up some last minute flowers for the holiday meals, we’ll be doing a buy 2, get 1 free sale in the store this Saturday only!  Ranunculus are almost done for the year, so if you want those beautiful cheery flowers in your home brightening spirits, come get 'em now!   Speaking of the store, the plant sale was a...

Flowers are back!  The poppy plants are looking happy again and are producing beautiful flowers, so we have you covered with gift boxes and poppy bundles for Easter and Passover next week!!    We’ve also got a ton of beautiful ranunculus and we’re expecting a bunch of the Potomac Snapdragons to be ready for harvest next week too!  All 3 flowers are bright and festive for your holiday table and you can grab some here before they sell out: Click Here!   Easter/Passover is the 2nd biggest week for flowers each year and things do tend to sell out quickly, so if you want flowers, head over there now and read this later.  We won’t be doing bouquets this year. ...

Well, the plant sale is off to a great start!  Everything is robust and healthy and ready for transplanting.  Minus a couple of frost bit tips on a few of the perennials, the plants look the healthiest of any year we’ve done the plant sale, so we are quite pleased!    There is still time to place an order and we have tons of healthy plants available, so if you already placed an order, but wanted to add something else, go ahead and place another order and just send us an email alerting us to that fact and we’ll gladly combine your orders or help you reschedule your pickup if need be.     If you do get an astilbe, spirea,...

  My dad’s parents grew up in county Kerry Ireland and that beautiful green island holds a special spot in my heart.  My grandfather, Patrick O’Shea, was born on St. Patrick’s day and spent much of his adult life as a bagpiper and a cable car driver in San Francisco.  I’ve been listening to an old record of him singing an a cappella song about longing to visit the cottage he grew up in.  He did eventually go back in the 60’s and took my dad when he was about 10 years old.       My dad took us to that cottage in 2018 and it was beautiful.  We found out while there, that his grandmother used to grow...

We’re finally getting some cooler weather again.  Spring came on virtually all at once and fully burst everything wide open.  Purple splashes of lunaria are starting to spot the landscape.  The anthocyanin rich baby leaves of the Japanese Maple are just embers of the fire they’ll soon be.  The blossoms have all fallen off the peach, plum, and pear trees. The winter honeysuckle is fragrant no more.  The grass is tall and the tulip poplars and oaks have started to bud out. Clouds of yellow pollen are being puffed out in big exhalations from every species of tree imaginable. The catkins are long and thick with it.  Our lungs are heavy with it. Eyes irritated and heads full. The solar...

Hello and happy stormy Friday!     Our March flower subscription starts this coming week and we’ve just added a few more spaces if you’d like to join.  Our ranunculus and butterfly ranunculus are just starting to come in and will be finding their way into some of our subscription boxes, though not everyone will get the same thing every week.  Your box may very well be completely different than your friend’s from week to week as we intend to surprise you with a different box of beauty each time.   Spring has really come fast with steady temps in the high 70’s and low 80’s and our poppies went crazy last week.  I hope some of y’all reaped the benefits of our flash...

Happy Friday y’all!   Things are springing to life out here and it’s beautiful!  Bird song fills the farm and lately the frogs have been singing down in the woods.  Even the wasps have been floating around looking for new real estate. It’s been high 70’s and even climbed into the 80’s for us this week.  I know it’s unnatural and there’s ramifications of the unpleasant sort associated, but I’ve gotten to the point where I’m just gonna enjoy a beautiful day when I’m in one.  Even if it’s wildly out of season.  Better for the soul that way.   Our new crew is awesome and things are going great on the farm!  All of this year’s tomatoes have been potted up...

  Hi y’all!  This week has been fun.  We got our old buddy Ty back with us for awhile and Kali is in her second week in the studio and is doing great!   Ty Brooks worked with us for a couple of summers almost a decade ago and went on to get his Master’s in Sustainable Ag and start his own Peach and Pumpkin farm, Lazy Summer Farm, in Athens.  He’s helping us out a few days a week in the fields and tunnels and we’re really excited to have our friend in the fields with us again.   Kali Jones helped run one of our absolute favorite flower shops, Adaptation in Atlanta, and was a customer of ours for 7 years,...

The daffodils are blooming in speckled spots of cream and gold throughout the landscape, their delicate scent inviting you closer and giving you incentive to pause.  Mandy declared that this year, these flowers would be for all of us on the farm crew to enjoy.  They are always the first to bloom and always the first to be cut, but this year they’ll get to spend their whole time blooming exactly where they were born.  Filling our senses with their charms, instead of filling buckets for processing.  It may seem an obvious choice at a glance, but it’s an existential question every small farmer makes.  Do I deserve the fruits of my own labor?  Can I afford the fruits of...