Tour a Backyard Family Flower Farm in Colorado | Star Acres Flower Farm at Lafayette Farmers Market

We started looking for a house to live in together and we looked at a few, nothing really struck us and then we ended up at this property and we walked out the back door and it was just none of this was here it's just expansive land and we were we were like this is it. I think that's something I hear all of us at some point say to someone at market when they buy a bouquet is I really hope this brings you joy this week and that's something that we we really know like for us the flowers have brought so much joy and healing for us just and I think that's something we wish for people that our flowers could be in their homes and bring them joy even a simple small way. What keeps us going is the beauty of it we love the idea of bringing beauty to our space to our earth to other people's homes beauty communicates care you can do something and it can like fundamentally work but to make it beautiful really communicates that somebody had to care about it yeah and so we I mean there's a way to make market bouquets that is just like a machine and you can do it so so fast and we've tried we've tried to be more efficient and we just find like I think we're just gonna always land somewhere in between trying to be efficient but also like it really matters to us that it's beautiful and we really enjoy it and we find joy in like growing and cutting and arranging and like looking at what is what has been grown and just in awe over it and so yeah I think we also want people to feel the care behind it you know ours and the love my thing is this I hope that people get as much joy out of our bouquets as we did putting it together yeah and harvesting it people ask Evelyn what's your favorite flower and I said whatever's blooming because they all are well with Lizzie's they tell me that the lower ones when they begin to bloom it needs to have at least two blooms on it and these need to to be a different change in color rather than being as tight as these yeah they need to have only a few left to bloom yeah JJ do you want to harvest with me yeah and be in our movie no I never envisioned this actually when we started it was just a dream to do something together to bring beauty to the world together but it's just kind of grown every year and you're like where's this gonna end up I don't actually know Holly's the ideas person she's the one that's always like hey you should do this I've got an idea for this I'd like a farm stand next year she wants us to have a farm stand so I don't we'll see maybe she's not she's the dreamer what do we got what do we got we write our recipes you know very officially usually in the beginning scraps of paper I think I wanted to try this one because this is the one that I was this one had the purple in it oh right okay okay why don't you cut this one and I'll cut this one oh okay sound good go team go team go we've already got the lizzie this one almost has no filler which makes me feel like it might not be it's got three dahlias all right mom you're with me sounds good I need you to go and cut me two marigolds okay oh yes we have to bag all of our dahlias which is really can be labor intensive but we just have a lot of Japanese beetles and if we don't bag them we have dahlias with holes eaten all in them so it's kind of a labor of love because you're wanting the wanting the bloom to just be gorgeous with those bouquets so this particular one's called mystique I love the names of the dahlias they're so cool like flowers are just they're kind of like the thing for every occasion and it's actually been really an awesome move in having this farm we even though we haven't taken many flowers for ourselves we have been able to like offer them to friends who've had babies or friends who've had losses or like in a lot of those moments where you kind of like you're like I wish I had a way to show up for this person we it's just really nice to feel like you have an answer where you're like it's not much but like I can give you something that I like grew and labored over as a gift to you to bring beauty to like celebratory moments and hard moments okay I think that's pretty much it might add one or two more things but I think that one worked coming to a market near you just beautiful I'm happy with that color story pretty beautiful we're just being in the beauty that is breathtaking every day is a gift yes it is who knows that more than us because every day that we're out here it's I ask myself what did I do to deserve this