FLOWERS… coming 2024

It all started when…

After a series of traumas and heartbreaks and cross country moves….

Suddenly in June of 2023 I found myself sitting on the steps of a little shack we had built in 2017 looking at the 5 acres that would now be ours to call home.

In order to build a house site a lot of trees were cleared, and there had already been a large meadow on the property which has been in my husband’s family for decades. As I sat and sipped my morning cup of coffee, realizing I could now see Lake Superior now through the trees, it came to me, you should grow flowers Hilary.

I told my husband my idea that night, and the next morning he called from work - he was working on a job site where they were removing a 175 sq foot atrium style green house which I was therefore getting for free, and I had two hours to get there to dig up as many perennials as I could. Seemed like I had found my silver lining after all the hard work of healing my heart. And so the physical work began.

All of summer 2023 has been dedicated to this farm, which has yet to be named! I have covered weeds to kill them, built compost bins, hauled yards and yards of dirt and compost, moved wheelbarrows of rocks and sticks from the fields, and poured every penny I made that did not go to living expenses back in to this idea - fence posts, drip lines, hog pannels, tarps, tools, and so many SEEDS and PERENNIALS. I grew my first little row of sunflowers and cosmos - many of the sunflowers the deer ate the heads off of - learning curve! I got my seeds in the ground LATE especially for our short season up here, but I managed to sell every bouquet I cut and for that I am SO GRATEFUL. My first cosmo is pressed and framed next to the first dollar I made. THANK YOU.

So, from here out, my life will be dedicated to the creation and sharing of beauty. Both in flower form in the summers and jewelry form in the winters. You will be able to find my jewelry at the La Pointe Center Gallery and I am working out the details of how my flower business will flow. This winter will be spent doing a ton of research and taking any classes I can afford related to flower farming. I plan to offer a weekly flower share, sell at a few local stores, and hit 3 local farmers markets as well as doing arrangements for events.

Thank you for following me on this wild journey and growing with me.

-HJN