Merry Christmas to all. We are grateful to be able to grow beautiful things for people and follow our passion for flowers, even despite the challenges. Keeping faith in God and putting in more than we receive are two things we will try to remember in 2026. Looking forward to what the New Year will bring, the future looks bright #merrychristmas #happybirthdayJesus

Expectations can be the enemy of our tranquility in life #lifetips

Happy Christmas Eve Nostr. It’s a beautiful day

The carnations are still producing blooms despite the short days and rainy weather, not enough to sell but enough to take home for the kitchen table. Carnations are nostalgic for us, a classic flower, once grown by many American farmers decades ago, now grown by very few due to cheaper imports from Columbia and Ecuador primarily. Maybe when we have an international neutral reserve asset like #bitcoin American farmers can grow these wonderful flowers for profit again. I’m happy to keep some going on our farm.

Snapped a quick photo of our assistant farm manager evaluating our ranunculus crop #ranunculus #flowers #farmstr #farming

Apparently using plastic on my farm has a few people on #nostr a little butthurt. I will apologize to no one for our practices, hate all you want. Using plastic mulch helps us avoid using chemicals, it gives us better quality for our customers, and frees up our time for other work. If you want to hate on someone, try Monsanto before dissing a small farm producing for its local market. I guess even bitcoiners and freedom lovers can be petty unfortunately. That’s the end of my rant for the day

Some days it feels like no progress is made, and then you see a picture like this and see how far the plants have come. Onward to 2026. Looking forward to a great crop this spring #flowers #ranunculus #farmstr #spring

Sunday stroll through the farm, and had to share my favorite hellebore from the walk. Bayli’s Blush is the variety, a nice ray of sunshine during these cold cloudy days #hellebores #flowers #farmstr

Morning shot of our purple hellebore opening up #hellebores #flowers #farmstr

I planted some Icelandic poppies in the home garden. They’re something I’ve never grown before, but I’m using the garden as a trial run to see if growing more volume is worth it. There’s not much that will grow during the colder winter months so the few that do always get extra appreciation #flowers #farmstr #poppies

During these short winter days there’s not much to do besides clean up and watch the plants come out of hibernation. Agriculture definitely makes you appreciate seasonality, each one has its own challenges and fun parts too #flowers #farmstr

More hellebore colors are coming out now. Christmas won’t be white but full of color here on the west coast #hellebore #flowers #farmstr

Lately I see a lot of fear and FUD about bitcoin, but when I think about it long term, this is a technology for the advancement of human freedom and prosperity. No amount of MSTR selling or liquidity problems is going to stop an idea whose time has come #bitcoin