Planks & pistils

08/17/2026

We’re back this week with flowers at the farm stand!

5-7pm at 5800 S Ada
🎶 feat. DJ Cymba
🍸free sips while supplies last Zeke Franco

Drone footage from J-Rell who DJ’d last time!

07/20/2026

The earth gives good gifts. And we want to share them with you!

Expanding on the necessity for land sovereignty, sistasinthevillage and have begun growing flowers to be designed by 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐤𝐬 & 𝐏𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐬

This inaugural series of locally-grown flowers begins on August 5 and will run biweekly (every other week) through October 14.

Sign up at the link in bio to reserve your bouquet!

Come out to the farm, get your bouquet, get some organic produce and vibe.

07/15/2026

“Bury Me in a Free Land,” a poem by American writer Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
—
Make me a grave where’er you will,
In a lowly plain, or a lofty hill;
Make it among earth’s humblest graves,
But not in a land where men are slaves.

I would sleep, dear friends, where bloated might
Can rob no man of his dearest right;
My rest shall be calm in any grave
Where none can call his brother a slave.

I ask no monument, proud and high,
To arrest the gaze of the passers-by;
All that my yearning spirit craves,
Is bury me not in a land of slaves.

—
photography by Tafari Melisizwe

07/13/2026

06/22/2026

Exciting!

06/17/2026

It’s fun. It’s bringing people together. It’s free mini bouquets all weekend. More details soon!

06/11/2026

NEW LOCATION! Unfortunately, our friends at GGE had some fallen tree damage from Wednesday’s storm.

But still please join us down the street at Nuk & Granny Farms for the floral demo led by John Caleb Pendleton in conversation with Mel Mitchell

There will be limited seating so we encourage you to bring a chair or blanket for this beautiful and fun time in the garden.

Free parking is available on surrounding streets and at Alpha Temple Baptist Church 6701 S Emerald Ave Chicago, IL 60621

See you Saturday!

05/09/2026

Because Black men also deserve flowers for graduation! Congrats Zach!

04/24/2026

It can feel futile to design & sell flowers while looking around and asking “what’s going on?” But, as we saw with the photos from Artemis and remembered, we live on a planet of beauty. And the ugliness is from our own mismanagement of ourselves and our communities.

We need to love. But we can’t love our neighbor as we love ourselves if we don’t first love ourselves.
Love the planet.
Love yourself.
Love your neighbor.

“You see, war is not the answer
For only love can conquer hate
You know we’ve got to find a way
To bring some loving here today”

Design by .studios