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Full show notes coming soon! How do we connect with you? https://eastwardgardens.com (eastwardgardens) https://www.instagram.com/eastwardgardens/ (on Instagram) We were city kids, he was a professional skateboarder and neither of us had a background in farming. There’s just the two of us but we do it for a living. I think I found you on Floret. How big is your place? I’m going into my 3rd season growing flowers. We’re going on selling vegetables etc on 3 years. I was a nurse with the dream I could leave my job. took us a while try to make it quick We moved from Seattle to louisville so I could go to grad school that’s when Larry started interning on a farm. He’s been farming ever since then. I just joined full time in  June I quit my job. That’s when I bumped up the flower production.  I can do more with it a lot of flowers we grow on 2 acres our farm is 16 1/2 acres We crop rotate we only have, theres about 6 acres of workable we rotate it and do about 2 at a time. We sell Vegetables fruit culinary herbs micro greens   We sell a lot of micro greens through the winter, we sell a lot of microgreens through the winter months. Culinary herbs who do you sell those to and do you want to tell listeners the diffeence between culinary and medicinal? we just specific culinary herbs people cook with rosemary thyme sage sorrel parsley basil Who do you sell to? A CSA? 20 week CSA 2 famers markets a week local health food store small scale because there’s just the two of us have health food store we consistently 20 week CSA program 2 farmers market May or June – Oct radishes turnips arugula flower share this year for the first time flower bouquets in with vegetables ranunculus anemones Start April 4-6 weeks once they start more veggies I can say definitely salad mix spinach first boxes unique about our CSA Organic Farm dietician newsletters in each box recipes items in the box recipes are all plant based recipes nutritional value how to store the crops processing and preserving website under the CSA tab 6 years worth of newsletters there that have recipes work really hard on the newsletter cook sharing recipes good cooked simply lentils and rice beans and rice dishes white bean dish good to add in pesto plant based pesto doesn’t have cheese in it have to add cheese this when you’re a farmer I don’t like to see anything go to waste Pesto is a great one you can process and freeze arugula have to blanch it boil for 30 seconds stop cooking process arugula basil and cilantro kale brocoli parsley all those options are really taste 5 cloves of garlic walnuts ~ healthy for your brain pesto is a great way to do in the store with parchment paper ring and the lid store in the freezer easy great way to use up the foods best on homemade bread so the flowers are a total labor of love for me I’ve wanted to grow flowers my whole life, never really have year before I quit my job he was hesitant at first can’t really eat a flower for one he didn’t see that we would have much of a market for them if anything it will attract bees, be pretty happiness to the farm wanted to get bees plan to do in the future plotted out the field wasn’t the best spot drainage space come to find out the flowers are easier to grow then food zinnias sunflowers our first go at it we actually did really well Mennonite neighbors who do dahlias gave us our first dahlia tubers sunflowers zinnias cosmos sun friendly started bringing bouquets to market give one bouquet away at market to be thankful when we started to do that, it was amazing the reaction people started crying I’ve given a lot of tomatoes, but there’s something special about these Support this podcast