In our second year of flower farming—and our first year of selling our flowers—it has been harder to balance competing priorities.

The wind has probably been one of the most surprising and frustrating challenge we’ve encountered in our first year of flower farming.

I remember how excited (and nervous!) I was the first time I approached a local florist to sell our flowers. That meeting, standing over an armload of our flowers, did turn into a sale. But even more important, I learned more about understanding what our prospective customers are looking for.

It is so hard sometimes to stay focused on the one thing in front of you. There is always a long list—either actual or mental—of things that need to be done. But committing to starting a flower farm meant giving myself permission to be present in what I needed to be doing.

We learned a lot of lessons in our first year of flower farming but one of the biggest was about weeds. Weeds are always going to be a challenge in flower farming, but, as we learned, it’s definitely better to be proactive.

We moved into our new house in December 2022 and were eager to start seedlings inside so that we could get flowers in the ground as soon as possible after the last frost. The original game plan had been to be in a new house by fall so that we could start cool season flowers to overwinter and be ready in the early spring.

I’m a planner by nature. I love to-do lists, color-coded calendars, creating step-by-step guides. When we started our flower farm, we bought a giant wall calendar and I started marking it up. Then life happened.

“I have a crazy idea to run by you.”

These are the words spoken to me by my husband, Dave, that ultimately brought us here to Lucky Fox Farm.