It started with a legacy…
Meet my grandma, Ruby Violet. She loved flowers, nature and horticulture. She grew up with a deep love for the world around her, as her dad took her on nature hikes and inspired a love of learning and fascination with the beauty of wildflowers. Her passion for flowers inspired her to bless those around her by making bouquets for house-bound people in her community, flower cookies for everyone’s birthdays and later the residents in her retirement home, and she was the head of the garden club in her community.
Meet my grandma, Arlyse June. She found her peace working in her yard and being around flowers and plants. She was a great teacher and mentor when it came to growing plants. Visiting her home and sitting on her back porch was like being in the Secret Garden - so many beautiful plants from morning glories and bridal bouquet flowers to pomegranate and plum trees, her backyard was filled with life. She shared anything she learned with those who were open to listening and wasn’t afraid to try new things when it came to plants.
…that turned into a lifelong passion…
Hi! I’m Becca. I am a mom of 3 amazing kids and am blessed to walk life with my husband. Besides gardening, my favorite hobbies include animals, music (I sing and play piano for my church and teach part-time piano lessons), hiking and taking pictures of flowers. My parents and grandparents instilled in me a love for learning, a deep awe and wonder for creation and all things outdoors, and a love for all things flowers. Flower farming with a regenerative agricultural lens allows me to combine all of the things that I love - helping and healing the soil (the absolute delight I get when I see all the worms in my soil) and growing flowers and seeing life abound around me.
…that led to flower farming with a twist…
A few years ago, a florist friend mentioned that if I grew flowers, she would love to buy from me. Well, that was the spark that started the flower farming! I started researching and learning as much as I could about flower farming. I wanted to know as much as possible before I jumped into farming. As I researched, I became increasingly uncomfortable with some of the practices I saw in conventional farming. I ran across an article that mentioned regenerative agriculture. I had never heard of regenerative agriculture before but something in me resonated with those terms. As I began to research what regenerative agriculture meant and how it played out in an agricultural model, I knew I had found a type of farming I could get behind.
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… and Ruby June Flowers is born.
From dirt to soil, from unproductive to productive, from barrenness to abundance in worms and microbiological activity, from brown to all the colors of the rainbow.
