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I took over this farm from my friends Kelley and Eric (Kelley and Eric's Urban Gardens) in 2020 when they moved to Minnesota to start a farm there, growing mostly veggies, herbs, and edible flowers. This opportunity felt like the most amazing gift, which is why I named the farm Gratitude Gardens. I studied Sustainable Agriculture at Santa Rosa Junior College, and am passionate about ecological farming as a means to help heal the earth and our relationship to it. I fell in love with growing flowers, and this will be my fourth season growing cut flowers. I love learning about soil science, native plants and continuing to learn ways to better foster a thriving farm ecosystem and soil ecology. I love creating wild, garden style floral arrangements, and they reflect the love and care I tend this garden with. I am most inspired by the frogs and hummingbirds and the web of life in the soil. I am deeply grateful for the opportunity to learn to farm and to be growing flowers, for Kelley and Eric, and Eric's parents Jan and Bruce, the sweet elders who own the land, and the support of the community that chooses local flowers, that makes this work possible. It is both wildly magical and incredibly challenging, and I wouldn't trade it for anything. ~Andi Lameiro Farmer, business owner, & flower artist |
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