Warm greetings!

Just looking back at these photos from the week - there's been a whole lot of magic around here. So fun.

We had a group of children and parents for a flower fun day. It was wonderful. Those of you who know my elementary ed teacher heart, know that I miss teaching, and just hanging out with children. Truly we have so much to learn from them. They just know things that we don't, and we would be wiser to listen and observe harder. Anyway, it was a great day, and the chickens have never felt so loved. :)

The eclipse was super cool, and we're so glad to have experienced it. I loved the shadows the most. 

The pollinators that continue to populate our field are diverse and many. Even compared to last year, we have so many bumblebees and butterflies, and dive bombing hummingbirds. It's awesome.

And the flowers continue to delight. We cleaned a bunch of garlic this week too, and harvested watermelons. 

The cool weather will slow us down a little, but we also have some new fall fare in the ground and on its way. Stay tuned for lovely lisianthus, celosia, kale flowers, lilies, broom corn, and if we can talk really sweet to it, the eucalyptus might finally make an appearance. :)

Happy last week of August!

xoxo

J,M+E

Hello dear HPF supporters,

I"m feeling grateful this morning for the opportunity to do this work; for our strong bodies that just keep going, our tired minds that are often on auto-pilot these days, and our hearts that drive it all.

And for you all; your hearts and minds, that inspire you to choose products locally and sustainably-grown by people you know. The choice is not small. The ripples are wide.

We had a quote this week, on what it would take to install solar panels on our farm. We use a relative lot of electricity to power our greenhouses, and cooler, not to mention the dryer to wash all our very dirty clothes! Who knew the dryer took so much energy?! We're going to look into funding, but it's quite a bit of money up front. 

Anyway, the great sales guy showed us these infographics with numbers attached on what we would save in energy and fossil fuels. (I'm a sucker for a good infographic!) It's amazing what the greater impact would be just by converting our little farm to solar. 65% of Excel's electricity is produced through coal-burning with coal from Wyoming. Between the travel and the coal-burning, it's pretty impressive what would be saved.

Every choice we all make for seemingly little changes in our day-to-day lives combine into big impacts. It's so cool.

It's been a wet week. It's supposed to dry out this weekend, and the flowers will appreciate that.

We've put out so many more flowers this year than ever before, and it's been awesome. But, with the time and energy put into that, we haven't been able to give our broccoli and watermelons the attention they need. Combined with the challenges of growing on 2-year transitioning farm land, it's really affected the quality and quantity of our produce this year. We're sorry for it. Every year is a learning experience, and it takes another year to adjust, make changes and grow again. Next year will be different. 

This year has been about the flowers. Next year we'll give more attention to, and with improved soil, our produce will flourish too.

We thank you ever so much for your continued support! Have a great week!

xoxo
J,M+E 

 Hiya friends!

Below is a photo of us on a quick watermelon break at about hour 7 on Thursday, our biggest order day ever in the history of HPF. WOOT! It was intense, but really awesome.

Thanks for your orders, and for representing our product so well. We appreciate you all!

Truly the high summer bounty is here. And the cooler weather has slowed some things a bit, but feels so good.

Enjoy the weekend!

xo 
J,M+E

Hello!

Hope you've had a lovely week. The cool weather is welcome, and makes us start to think about fall and it's beauty.

The sunflowers will be in full force next week - so we'll resume regular orders and please, order away! We'll also offer celosia, chief and plume, in consumer bunches.

Our week has flown by, and we continue to be delighted by the bounty of the flowers. Thanks for your support, and be in touch if you have questions.

Just this as we cruise into a busy August weekend. Best to yours!

xoxo
J,M+E

E's arrangements. <3

The first of my roses. This is Lady Shalot. I can't get enough of her.

Oh yeah, soon enough we'll be slurping up juicy watermelon.

We picked some berries with family from the west coast. So sweet.