A Closer Look.

It began with a vision and a shovel, an affinity for sweat, and dirty jeans. And supportive family who lifted up my dream and joined me in the dirt to make it happen. The vision began from the ground-up.

Literally.

Cultivating healthy flower beds began with the transformation of overlooked soil on the property. The decision to not till the soils followed a shifting practice of many farmers who want to retain soil carbons and rich micro-organisms. To this end, Indigo & Ivy Farm provides a hyper-local flower harvest built on the foundation of sustainable soil practices. Quite simply, healthy soil raises healthier and stronger blooms.

Indigo & Ivy Farm began a most memorable year. 2020 arrived like any other. By mid March, like many others, my family navigated a major pivot to sustain jobs. As an art educator, mine stopped suddenly. While trying to find my bearings the world revealed the deepest of ways all people need care, justice and joy. I turned toward my garden and found purpose. I planned and planted, researched and read, working the soil and realizing my own dream to grow cut flowers in my own business. I had worked on a flower farm in recent summers, and I found it harder to work someone else’s dream, instead of creating my own.

I had to ask myself some tough questions. Do flowers bring about the changes the world needs right now? No. But farming flowers represents a radical act of HOPE- from tiny seed to resplendent bloom. The immediate joy that comes from holding new blooms is a tangible sign of that hope. We can all use a bit of that.

Let’s CULTIVATE JOY.