The dream for this flower farm snuck up on us. After the loss of my only brother, my husband Tim and I decided to immigrate back to the USA from Australia to live closer to my parents. They had just moved to an 2 acre spot in Arvada, a portion of what had historically been ‘Star Acres’ in the early 1900s, with my daughter and her husband and children. We joined them on the same property, 4 generations of family in the same house. 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 will be our first year in this venture and 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.