Star Acres Flower Farm

I lived away from my family for like 18 years and lived in Australia and I really missed them over the 18 years that we were there. I had sold real estate for 26 years and loved it but at my age it was getting to where I lost the fun in it. I had decided to retire. The first year I moved back here my mom and I and Holly my daughter we started a little flower garden in the backyard together. Towards the end in the fall Holly had a book that she let me look at and it was a flower farmer's book and I remember looking at the book thinking this is so beautiful. Holly said you know she's got a flower farming course that she offers you should look into it. I don't know is this what I want to do? This is like jumping off the cliff saying yeah I'm going to be a farmer but I kind of had to frame it like oh if I spend this money and do this course and grow beautiful flowers in my backyard just for me that's okay. So my mom jumped in then and said I'll do the course with you. We hit the books hard and heavy. They would send us a video every week and we had a book to to go by and it was awesome. We didn't do the farmer's market that season we just had like a farm stand and we did a small CSA and we just loved it. It was really fun we're learning so much and failing at a lot of things but it's just such a big learning curve but it was just great. Then for this year is our second season decided to like make more bed space so we increased our size grew different varieties that we hadn't tried yet. So we've done the farmer's market this year and that's been epic. Our farm stand has always been an awesome connecting with our community space but that has also been a really cool connecting with the community and it's a beautiful farmer's market. It's just such a good feeling the vibe there is just really lovely and everybody's got dirt under their fingernails and they're all got skin in the game. It's just been really special. We're getting to know each other as you know in the stage and season of life that we're in now as women and as we're aging and I mean I'm 78 you know and you're still dreaming how cool is that like that's so inspiring to me like some people just kind of quit evolving or quit learning and growing and dreaming. We want to create like a beautiful space that we can have people come to and just feel what we feel yeah like feel the joy and the peace that it brings us we want to share that with people so we're like trying to find ways to create beauty that can make people feel that peace. And the beauty in all of this is that Donna had been away for almost 20 years and it was like I had lost 20 years of her life and she'd lost 20 of mine but to be able to do this side by side it was like a redeeming of the time because we're out here at the crack of dawn every morning and it's it's just a beauty that I never expected my life to take this turn at my age but I love it it's very therapeutic it's it's awesome. I get blown away by the beauty of all of these things look at that gorgeous you can see a tiny seed and it becomes something so beautiful just gives you hope in a way like you're like wow something beautiful can come from something tiny and just focusing on the small beautiful things that the world has that are there for us to enjoy and just to speak of beauty and I think speak of a creator.