• Flower Farming - The Homestead Weekly

    The Homestead Weekly, 11 April 2021

    I want to be keeping up on these each week (if for no other reason than the fact that they’re so good for ME to be able to look back on!), but man, life has been crazy lately. Flower farming is so much work, and though I really love it, it does take up pretty much all of my time. But since it’s been 3 weeks since my last one, I really wanted to not wait any longer before doing an update, so I’m taking a break and completing this now rather than sowing more seeds like I should be…

  • Day in the Life - Flower Farming

    Day in the Life of a First Year Flower Farmer {Spring}

    Just for fun, I’m planning on doing a Day in the Life post for each season this first year of being a flower farmer. Not only will this help anyone reading to see the level of work that goes into managing even a micro scale flower farm operation (we’re only growing on about 1,000 square feet this year), but I’m hoping it will also be a valuable resource for me looking back. I will note, this was done on the 31st of March 2020, and it was a slightly different day than usual because my daughter was on spring break…