Greetings!

Happy belated New Year! I haven’t been great at keeping in touch. To be honest, I have been busy living my life, enjoying my family and friends, and doing some traveling. I hope you’re doing the same! Joy and peace are forms of resistance that I’m carving out for myself right now. With that said, I have a business to run! So here are a few key updates.

Photo by @mckenzieclark of Two Boots seedlings

Our Online Plant Sale is open now through April 12th! Yes, the snow is actively falling on our farm, but it’s time to start dreaming about our gardens and making plans. In our home, we have been making batches of sauerkraut and kimchi on a monthly basis. My goal this year is to try to grow my own ingredients for my ferments. We do sell out of some items in our plant sale, so don’t delay. Feel free to reach out with gardening questions. I have learned a few things in my 14+ years farming! We only offer the tried and true varieties for our region - meaning the plants that can tolerate our humid summers and are chosen for productivity. The veggies we offer are the same varieties we grew when we were growing veggies for sale, so we know they are good producers! We also have herbs and flowers in our plant sale.

We are offering a 10% discount on your order if you pick up from our farm in Hampstead, MD. We will again offer pick up locations in Charles Village, Baltimore, and Silver Spring, MD . Pick-up dates are all the last week of April.

Presenting at the Future Harvest Conference

Maya, from Hillen Homestead and I will be presenting a three-hour intensive at the Future Harvest Conference this week on Wednesday, January 21st. We will be talking about 6 of the more challenging and expensive flowering crops we grow: tulips, ranunculus, poppies, lisianthus, dahlias, and heirloom mums. We will be covering sourcing, planting, growing, harvesting, and selling. I’m happy to share our slides with anyone, so just ask! We spent many, many hours putting this information together. It’s an incredible amount of collective knowledge we want to share, even if you can’t make it to the conference.

Solar Update

It’s been a year since the funding freeze with the USDA. After months of advocacy work, speaking to our representatives and national/ international press, and being a plaintiff in a lawsuit against the USDA and President Trump, we finally have our solar panels and have been awarded the $30,000 from the USDA. It feels like that chapter of my life has luckily come to an end, but there are still a lot of farms that are experiencing funding freezes for various projects. With your help (yes, you!, I know a lot of you were calling your reps on repeat for us!), we were able to get the USDA funds released! I am very grateful for having a persistent community.

Thank you for being a part of our farm story, whether you're far away or local and one of our customers. I am lucky to get to make a living doing what I love and sharing it with you. This work is deeply rewarding, and I wouldn’t want to have it any other way.

Enjoy your winter and dreaming about the spring,

Harry is missing the Two Boots Farm crew. They will be back in the spring buddy!

Elisa

Online Plant Sale, Solar Funding Update and Conference Season