The Story of Micro Flower Farm

Way back in 2017, my husband and I had the unique opportunity to travel in the UK for three months with our young kids. A bunch of our friends thought we were slightly crazy, but we stuck all our stuff in a storage unit and went for it. That trip was the first tipping point toward what has become Micro Flower Farm.

I learned a lot about myself on that trip, and it changed my life in many ways. But the most important was that it instilled in me a love for gardens and a desire to create as many as I could!

Why? Because one of the things built into the fabric of the English way of life is gardens. Everywhere you turn, people transform their smallest spaces into gorgeous pockets of beauty. Huge amounts of land are divided into allotments, which people cultivate and add to, and then eventually pass on to others who continue doing the same. So much beauty and growth are created in such small areas—it was eye-opening!

The mindset is one of adding more beauty to the world, not just for yourself but for others. There is a strong focus on generational benefit and leaving the world a better place. It also encourages a slower way of life (you can’t rush plants!) and an attitude that it’s worthwhile to “stop and smell the roses,” and from that flows something unique, hard to describe, and deeply meaningful.

I left that trip and came home to the PNW, where we found a 1/2-acre suburban lot a year later and settled down (and had one more baby). When we moved in, I started planting, but my focus was mainly on berries, vegetables, and a whole bunch of roses. That was also the year I planted a plot of wildflowers, and I remember watching them bloom and being amazed at the beauty of those humble flowers.

Fast forward to the end of 2019: I had a 6-month-old plus three more children (all under six), and the flower bug that had been planted in 2017 suddenly hit hard. I bought a bunch of seeds, started them in my kitchen under grow lights, and delved headlong into the flower world.

And it changed my life. That first year (2020), I planted a little 500-sq-ft garden and was overrun with blooms. It was glorious, and I knew that THIS was what I wanted to do. So I tore up my front lawn, formed beds, shoveled compost, and planted hundreds and hundreds of flowers. I read everything I could get my hands on and fell deeper and deeper in love with growing flowers. And Micro Flower Farm was born.

The farm grew on that 1/2-acre lot until 2024, when I stumbled across a local property I fell in love with. It was a lot of work to move the farm and we had to pull a lot of strings, but in mid-2024, we moved to a 6-acre plot in Clark County, Washington, just a few miles from that original property.

Here is where the farm intends to stay: embracing small-scale, intensive flower farming on a production field of just under an acre. The rest is dedicated to growing gardens of different types, cultivating specific native habitats, and giving our children room to roam and grow.