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Our Story 

My husband, Tim, and I moved to Rockbridge County in 2012 when Tim accepted a pilot job on the local EMS helicopter.  I was working prn as nurse, homeschooling my girls, and generally enjoying being at home tinkering in the garden when I could.  Growing up on a cattle ranch in Montana, I had deep roots in agriculture but had never grown cut flowers.  Imagine my delight in discovering all that can be grown here that was nearly impossible to grow in MT!  Five years ago I ventured headlong into cut flowers when I convinced my husband to dig up two 60-foot flower beds in our front lawn, and I started hundreds of seeds under grow lights in the basement.  After our son was born in 2021, I resigned from the hospital and began to read and explore more about growing cut flowers. That spring Tim dug up more flower beds, my girls and I planted thousands more seeds, and I started reaching out to a few women in my local church who might want regular bouquets from those rows.  

We now have over fifty different varieties of annual cut flowers and flowering perennials growing throughout the season, and I am so grateful to be able to wake up each morning and be out in the sunshine with my hands in the dirt.  As we creep up on our fourth growing season, we continue to be so grateful to our customers, family, and friends who have encouraged us, invested in us, and purchased from us. I have loved seeing flowers filling up more of our landscape, but even more, I have loved having my girls working out there alongside me with our son chasing the dogs between the rows.  It is a gift to steward this land doing what we love, and we are so, so thankful.

   

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Blessings~
Jill Ellis

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