About Us

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In 2016, I sold sunflowers and zinnias to nine local florists in the Greensboro, Kernersville, and Winston-Salem area. I was so happy that local florists were excited to have fresh locally grown flowers. The following year I added celosia cockscomb, celosia plumes, ageratum, dahlias, eucalyptus, lisianthus, yarrow, and zinnias. I also tried some other cut flowers but narrowed the flowers down to these eight cut flowers. Besides selling to florists, I have added some wedding designers especially since I have increased the number of dahlias I have been growing. This year I am making some changes as I want to focus more on dahlias. I am growing over 200 varieties. I am taking a lot of notes about which varieties seem to do well in our hot and humid summers.   I really enjoy being self-employed and growing flowers for a living.  I am so excited to start my 5th year of selling locally grown flowers in 2020.  I am also selling dahlia tubers this year to help supplement my income to help pay for the expenses of being a flower farmer. I do appreciate all the local florists buying my flowers and everyone who purchases dahlia tubers from me online. I really enjoy growing these flowers and your support means a lot to me.

We purchased this farm 5 years ago. We have almost 12 acres. The farm is in the Piedmont Triad of North Carolina. I knew when we purchased it that I wanted to do something with the land. Growing up in Delaware, my grandparents had a farm that we always went to on weekends. My Mom's Dad was a dairy farmer and sold milk in the local town door to door in the 1930's. Milk sold for 12 cents a quart!  Eventually he just grew soybeans or corn on the land. The Delaware farm is a centennial farm as it has been in our family for over 100 years and my brother continues to farm on the land. So even though I have an accounting background and have mostly lived in neighborhoods with ½ acre lots, I grew up understanding what it is like to somewhat grow up on a farm. I never would have guessed that I would become a flower farmer.

I have always grown flowers and had large flower beds. I have been a Forsyth County extension master gardener volunteer since 2015.  I started farming in March of 2015 when we purchased the farm.  In August 2015,  I attended the Chatham County Cooperative Extension workshop on “Growing Cut Flowers for Market” in Pittsboro, NC.  I learned so much at that two day workshop. I thought I was going to grow vegetables and sell at the local farmers market. I came home from that workshop and told my husband “I love flowers, and I can make money growing flowers on the farm”.  I began farming on four 100 foot rows. Now, I have forty 100 foot rows for cut flowers. The cut flower field is surrounded by deer fencing and is about 1 acre.