Welcome Home

While we sincerely miss our customers and market friends we made in Memphis, TN.  We are so grateful for the bonds we created with like minded customers and friends who appreciate hard work, organic farming and beautiful flowers!  However, we are beyond ecstatic to be back in Pensacola.  This is where we started our family and the place we truly call home.  Pensacola is where we want to put down roots literally and figuratively.  We love farming, and we truly miss the farm we started in Tennessee (zone 7b), but we learned a lot throughout the process and know that we can still grow all our favorite flowers and veggies on a smaller plot of land here in Pensacola (zone 9a).  We have a long way to go, since all the infrastructure we created for our farm remains in Tennessee, but we will not be deterred.  This new space just means a blank slate and something to be inspired by.  I truly spend my days and nights dreaming about our future growing area and have come up with many design scenarios.  I'll tell you one thing, I'm going to utilize every inch of ground we've got to maximize our growing potential.  I cant wait to incorporate fruit trees, roses, perennial beds, evergreens and more!  I also plan to interplant my cut flowers throughout our landscape, not just in the flower farm portion of our property.

It is my hope that we will be able to spend this winter building and preparing our flower beds for production by next summer! I'd love to be able to offer spring flowers but I just don't see us being able get everything in place in time for that.  We are two zones warmer than when we were in Tennessee, so that means cool flowers here would really need to be planted this fall.  Trust me, I am itching to get seeds in dirt!  One major bonus to our new location is that I wont have to dig up dahlia tubers if I don't want to! What a game changer!  Thankfully I kept most of my dahlia tubers, and I have been doing my darndest to get those babies in the ground! I still have four tubs of them that really need to get in the dirt soon, so hopefully I will find a way.  So far I have planted some in containers, some in our little herb bed.  I recently built a flower bed to go by our chicken coop where I was able to stash a full container of Cafe au lait Dahlia tubers!  Cant wait to see the beauty they bring to that space!

As we know more about our plans, and have products to sell I will do my darndest to keep you posted here, but in the mean time please keep up to date through our social media and Youtube channel.  Wishing you all the best and keep playing in the Dirt!

-Annicka