OUR MISSION

Growing Nutritious Food and Beautiful Flowers that are

Good for the Earth,

Good for Our Community,

and Good for You.

OUR STORY

We are return-generation farmers doing what we can to restore our connection to the earth and its people.

If we reach back two or three generations we can find our ancestors tending their home gardens while share-cropping in central Arkansas and coal mining in Eastern Kentucky. But neither of us grew up knowing how to raise food or work with plants. Our return to farming has been a growing process.

​After years of working in the nonprofit, and education sectors, we realized that our best path forward was not to hope to work within broken systems: We were called to rise to the challenges of our time and help grow the alternatives we wanted to see in the world.

​For us it started with a raggedy guerrilla garden near our old home in Houston. On borrowed land we started growing food for our family that we knew would be healthier for us and easier on the environment than the stuff from California sold at the grocery store. But what we had begun just for ourselves quickly drew the attention of neighbors, who took it for a community garden. They thanked us for what we were doing and we happily shared our small harvests. And from there we began to dream of something more. We wanted to build on that shared love of food that connected us to our community and the land.

​In 2016 we transplanted to Maxwell's grandparents old place here in Oakland, Kentucky, with the goal of turning acres of grass into something more productive. We got some hens and grew a home garden bigger than we could handle. We greened up our thumbs and began to get to know our new neighbors.

​In 2017 Maxwell worked with Nathan and Michelle Howell of Need More Acres Farm to learn the ins and outs of full-on commercial farm work. They have been deeply gracious mentors. Our farm would not be possible with out their generous teaching, brave trailblazing, and tireless advocacy for all the eaters and farmers of Kentucky. We are deeply grateful for them and all that they do.

​In 2018 we established the farm business, set up shop at Community Farmers Market in Bowling Green and partnered with Jackie and Larry Berry of Flourishing Herbs Farm to begin Growing Together Farm Share, our CSA. Jackie and Larry have taught us so much, including the value of going far together. GTFS has been our foundation and we are honored to be collaborating with several other farmers in our region to seed a more cooperative and resilient local food system.

In 2020 Davida began Davida’s Flowers, expanding our offerings to include local regeneratively farmed cut flowers and bouquets. In 2021 she further expanded, combining herbs and flowers from her garden into unique, hand-crafted medicinal and beauty goods.

In 2021 we partnered with Black Soil: Our Better Nature and other legacy and upcoming Black farmers across Kentucky to bring our produce and flowers to Weekly Farm Share members in Lexington.

In 2022 we began a partnership with Compost BG to start closing the nutrient loop in the food system: bringing our produce to members’ doorsteps and taking their food scraps to be composted into good soil for local farms and landscapes. Davida also launched her Floral Education Workshops for Women to share skills in floral art, herbalism, seed saving, and flower arrangement.

We are excited to continue living into this calling. Together with you, God, and this little piece of ground, we can grow healthier people, a more connected Kentucky, a more resilient local economy, and a better relationship to the ever-changing and all-sustaining Earth.

OUR NAME