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Annie's Origin Story
If you had ever visited me in my old home, the first thing you would have noticed was my front garden. I use the term "garden" very loosely because it was less a garden and more of a riot of plants duking it out for supremacy, barely contained by a fence made of split rail and twigs and paths made of river stone. There was no lawn, no neatly trimmed hedges, just color and chaos and, to me, unrestrained beauty and life. It was filled with bumblebees and monarchs, and my inten
Nan Braun
Mar 44 min read
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Organizing February.
I am a visual organizer. I drag furniture around a room three times before settling on my favorite arrangement (or just exhausting myself and needing to settle). I lay bulbs or transplants out in a garden before atarting to dig, adjusting and rearranging a fee times, regardless of the detailed design map on paper in my hand. I create spreadsheets for almost , but sometimes I need to make piles, to hold workloads in my hands and weigh what is possible and what is not. I live
Nan Braun
Feb 81 min read
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Early Starters for our CSA
We are SO excited for our 2026 Flower CSA season. If you are aready a CSA member, you will be getting an email after St. Patrick's Day to kick off the season and prep our record keeping. If you are not already a member, St Patrick's day will be your last chance to purchase the subscription. Nan and Annie are busy planning out the flower seasons, and there will be a lot more information on that coming in March, so you know what to look forward to. In the meantime, we though
Nan Braun
Feb 82 min read
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The Shift into Spring
I am sitting here writing this with a hot mocha in my mug, the fireplace crackling, and looking out the window at gardens buried in snow. Living purely in the moment, it feels like spring is a lifetime away. We have not seen temperatures above freezing for weeks, and it feels like I should be as slumbering as the earth. The truth is that even before the New Year turned, we were already starting to grow for the 2026 season. Currently, the grow rooms are bursting with life an
Nan Braun
Feb 82 min read
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Growing in for Books and Bokay event.
I was out in the hoop houses this afternoom, weeding, planting in some seedlings and potting up fall foliage plants, so I shot you this ...
Nan Braun
Jul 20, 20251 min read
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Lisianthus on the horizon
I fell in love with Lisianthus five years ago. The first year, I stumbled across a few plants I could order and was smitten. It was...
Nan Braun
Jul 17, 20252 min read
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Come Again?
Once we get into the summer and fall seasons, many ( not all) of the flowers we grow are what are called "cut and come again". This means...
Nan Braun
Jul 16, 20252 min read
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Meet the First Madame
Snapdragons- who doesn't love them? The perfect childhood puppet flower- I have so many memories of hot summer days, lying under blue...
Nan Braun
Jul 14, 20251 min read
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Dahlia Delights
Some of our Dahlias are grown from Tubers that have been propagated and saved over the years, but the experimental fun with Dahlias is...
Nan Braun
Jul 14, 20251 min read
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