Regenerating the Land
Fostering Resilience
I’m not a farmer by trade or by training. I didn’t choose this path — I believe it chose me.
My call to tend the earth was born from ecological grief — the kind that settles in your bones when you witness the wild places you love disappearing. I’ve watched landscapes fade, species vanish, and the climate shift in ways I never imagined I’d see in my lifetime. At first, I didn’t know how to hold it, let alone how to respond. But over time, I learned that the only way through my heartbreak was to place my hands in the soil — to turn sorrow into stewardship and despair into daily acts of care.
When I first arrived in the valley I now call home, the land held a quiet ache that matched my own: charred fence posts from the 2017 wildfires, piles of debris, soil stripped of life.
It was a stark reminder of life’s fragility — and a clear confirmation to devote myself to the most necessary work of our time: learning to live in right relationship with the land, with each other, and with every living being who calls this Earth home.
A few years later, the land tells a different story.
Flowers bloom in abundance where scraggly weeds barely grew before. Honeybees forage and roam, pausing to take occasional naps inside flower faces turned up towards the sun. Monarch butterflies and a host of other insect life buzzes overhead while frogs hop and earthworms burrow through increasingly healthy, living soil.
Creating and tending this small farm has taught me that the antidote to despair is relationship. As the seasons turn and I work the soil, life returns. Nature is fragile, yes — but also endlessly resilient when given the right conditions.
The same is true for us. As I’ve aligned my own work and daily rhythms with the cycles of the Earth, my own health and well-being have come back into balance.
For me, farming is not simply about inputs, outputs, crops, or commodities — it’s about being in relationship with something far greater than myself. The land and the ecosystem I help nurture are not separate from me — they are part of me. Our well-being is shared, woven into the same web of life.
To tend the Earth is to tend myself, and to see the world through this lens is to understand that every act of care ripples outward, touching the whole. Each seed planted, each bed mulched, each pollinator welcomed feels like both devotion and defiance: devotion to life, and defiance of the systems that see land only as a resource to be used.
Farming is a quiet form of activism. It’s slow, relational, and rooted in reciprocity — the opposite of extraction. It’s a daily choice to protect beauty, to nurture biodiversity, and to create small sanctuaries of life even when the wider world feels uncertain.
This flower farm is my offering: a love poem to the land, a place for beauty, connection, and community. A reminder that when we tend the Earth, we tend ourselves — and both are needed for the future we hope to grow.
With love,
Rachael
Investing in What Matters Most
Know your farmer, know your flowers.
When you buy flowers from the grocery store or your local retailer, more often than not, they’ve been flown in from outside the United States. All that jet fuel and plastic packaging aside, these flowers have been harvested days and sometimes even weeks before they reach you, meaning that by the time you get them home, at best, they have only a few days of life left in a vase.
When you buy from a local farmer, you’re not only investing in the economic well-being of your local community, but you’re also getting a higher-quality product. Local flowers are fresher, healthier, and last longer. Local farmers can also grow varieties that don’t ship well and can’t be cultivated using mass-scale industrialized agricultural methods.
We stand behind the health and quality of our flowers, and are equally proud of the biodiversity on site, from pollinators, to birds, to other mammals up the food chain — all indicators of a balanced, healthy, ecosystem.
“The beauty, the brilliance & creativity, the wow factor when gifting the hand-curated bouquets - ahhh, such joy to gift & to keep!”
- Farmers Market Customer