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...

Happy Friday y’all! It’s great to be back with the crew after everyone got some time to rest and recoup. I can honestly say that spirits are high and everyone seems a little lighter in step after some solid downtime. We’re all excited for a great spring and the plants are looking fantastic so far. The mums are lush and green and so much bushier than last year.  We tried a few new techniques and dialed in our feeding approach and it sure shows.  They are doing so well, that we actually had to start taking cuttings this week. Happy baby chrysanthemums will likely be ready to find new homes in about 6 weeks! If you are on our mum...

Happy Friday y’all! Dahlia tubers are all dug and in the basement, getting divided by the ladies for spring.  Mandy and I have been spreading compost, tilling it in, and cover cropping all the fields to replenish them a bit and let them rest and recover.  Everybody needs a rest after working hard.  Even fields.

Happy Friday y’all! I’m writing this Thursday night, cause days are for diggin’. We’re rolling deep in the fields this week with almost the whole crew on hands and knees digging tens of thousands of dahlia tubers out of the ground in an attempt to beat the coming cold. Dahlias can sometimes survive cold temps in the ground, but if the ground freezes hard enough, they’ll freeze too, then rot. We’re looking at temps in the teens this Sunday night, so are at risk of losing everything that we don’t get dug, organized, and stored in our root cellar before then. It’s a race we didn’t know we were running until two days ago, but the gang’s all hustling and...

Happy Friday Y’all! Seasonally appropriate weather is back since I last wrote during a late November heat wave. We’re now a bit wet and cold out here, but getting some good stuff done after the holiday break. Our new technological installation allowed us to visit my family out in Truckee, CA for a Thanksgiving celebration instead of being stuck on the farm this year. In years past, when we had tickets to fly out west for the holidays, we’d have to cancel if cold approached. Always a heartbreaking situation. I miss my family. This year, every night we planned to be gone was a sub-freezing night that could ruin most of our spring flowers if tunnels weren’t closed with heaters...

Happy Friday y’all! We’re worn out over here. Mandy and I have been working in headlamps again as the days get shorter and the “gotta do” list gets longer. The crew’s been hustling too, and a lot has happened in a short time. Steve and Mandy with the heirloom mums on one of the last harvest days of the season!

Happy Friday y’all! Apologies for my absence last week. Mandy and I were on a business trip in Holland visiting some of the largest flower businesses in the world. Growers, breeders, seed producers, brokers, and the world famous flower auction. The flower auction site is so massive, that it’s larger than the country of Monaco! Jaws dropped! You wouldn’t believe the flurry of activity in that place. It’s like looking into a beehive and trying to decipher whose going where and why…but ultimately there’s an insanely organized and beautiful dance, rich with purpose, whose meaning I get, but the specifics of it all are mesmerizingly bewildering and always just beyond the grasp of my comprehension. The world famous flower auction...

Happy Friday y’all! We’re anticipating a potential frost tonight, so would advise any local growers to consider frost preparations tonight on any flowers they might want to preserve in case it happens. Our forecast says 37 degrees, but in 15 years of watching forecasts like a hawk, we’ve regularly seen cold nights dip 4-8 degrees below the forecasted low. Every micro climate is different, so what happens to us might not happen 2 miles away, but “be prepared, it’s the Boy Scouts marching song” so with so much on the line, we protect our crops when the forecast comes within striking distance. Of note, the nights where those dips more likely occur are nights when the forecast is rain free...

Happy Friday y’all! Fall is definitely upon us. We had friends out for a few days last weekend, and it was borderline hot the first 2 days, when Mandy declared “get a last look at these trees fellas, cause they’ll change color and start dropping leaves by tomorrow.” They (and I) were fairly stunned when we got outside the next day and it was raining down leaves and some foliage had indeed lost a noticeable amount of chlorophyll from the previous day. The girl is in tune.