If you have ever interacted with Erin, you know she’s the real deal. She’s kind, thoughtful, and has an amazing eye for design (she even does cakes!). Here’s a peak behind the scenes of her flower farm, Handpicked Homestead, in Vashon, WA. What circumstances lead you to start your farm? I left my lobbying career due to a move for my husband's job, had baby #4 and then ne[...]
It was late May and a friend and I were talking about flowers when she said, “I love my peonies, but every time I bring some flowers inside they wilt all over my table after a day.” Raise your hand if you’ve had that experience too! The secret is that you should cut peonies in bud form! It’s that simple. If your peonies are already open when[...]
In the face of all the tragedy of late - one of the upsides is seeing people come together and offer what they have to help each other. Here's a few of my favorite resources on the web for market farmers right now (including a few I've put together)! general farm Resources: GrazeU is offering a free 60 day pass to their Perishable Online Shipping LaunchpadFarmAid has my personal[...]
Read Part 1 HERE We’ve all been there, staring down a piece of land covered in weeds and grass, wondering where to begin. Cultivating soil is work. So much work. Conventional growing uses tillers, plows and herbicide, but is that the best we can do? What is healthiest for our land? Until a couple months ago I was 100% anti tilling. Actually, more like 88.7 percent. You se[...]
Sometimes things that should be self-explanatory to me, just aren’t. It was the summer of 2015 and I had this crazy idea of starting a flower farm. I was already obsessed with gardening and had even worked in a greenhouse but there was still a huge gap in what I wanted to do and what I already knew how to do. This is how I found myself typing into Google, “how to turn a hay field int[...]
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