08/28/2026
Ever found yourself needing to work smarter, not harder?
I enjoy making bouquets, and so do our kids. But we found that they can be VERY time consuming.
That's mostly why we decided it best to not do the roadside stand anymore, cause it took so much time, and wasn't very profitable. Eric didn't want me to have a full time job either.
Investing in our children, working together, and training them was and still is important.
And simplifying life with having a baby this past spring. Not planting near as much. Not trying to run ourselves ragged. To pick some main priorities business wise, and drop the rest.
Decided to focus on the floral shop delivery run once a week, and bulk buckets for local pickup if people wanted to buy directly from our small little family flower farm.
But really helped us consider even more, a better way to do bouquets. Her main income is generated from farmers market bouquets, and though we've decided as husband and wife that after selling at farmers market for 6 years early in our marriage with another of our home businesses, The Reclaimed Nation, it was best for our growing family to not continue doing the farmers market. We like to do things together as a family. God has always provided for our needs. But sometimes our 6 space booth would get so busy, i wondered if ever someone would walk off with one of our children, and I'd never see them again.
So we decided the farmers market would not be a good fit for our family.
But Trademark Farmer showed a better way of building bouquets by using a recipe and assembly line, drastically saving time. To think through price per stem, and more accurately price your bouquets, instead of selling yourself short for the value.
That's been the hard part for me.
But its been helpful to learn.
With dahlias, Ranunculus, peonies, all of it.
We know, as it says in Proverbs, a good name is to be chosen rather than great riches.
To show integrity.
That's been a key verse for all our home businesses.
Sometimes that means loosing money to do the right thing. But its worth it.
We represent Jesus Christ in how we run our businesses, and humbly want to represent Him well.
