Mother-daughter team chasing their cut flower farm dreams in Arvada, Colorado
The dream for this flower farm snuck up on us. In the spring of 2023, in an attempt to come together to bring beauty to our space, we tilled up a weed strangled dry patch of ground in our back pasture and sprinkled some seeds. We started a few patches of yarrow and cosmos, watered and weeded and crossed our fingers. To our shock and surprise it exploded into bloom all summer long and became a central fixture for our family to gather in and around. We had taken nothing, and made it something, and it had gathered us and in some strange way healed us a little too. We looked up from that little patch of dirt and saw the rest of our pasture as a canvas and opportunity. 2024 was our first year in this venture and brought more joy and challenge than we could have anticipated. We are beyond grateful to be chasing a dream together, mother and daughter. We can only hope and pray that all this hard work turns into beauty upon beauty and community as rich as the dirt we tend.