Lauren Barnhill

Growing up in rural NC on land adjacent to a hundreds of acres of soy, tobacco, and peanut production, I grew up experiencing the damaging nature of large scale, industrialized agriculture. I remember waking up in the morning to check on my family’s beehives with my dad to find all our bees dead, poisoned from the glyphosate sprayed on the farms by us, and many years our garden would face the same fate. Despite this, I came to love growing things, and I spent long years working as a farm hand to figure out how to do it without using damaging chemicals, depleting the soil’s health, or damaging the ecosystems in which we live.

Moving up to MA, I began to grow at The New Entry Sustainable Agriculture Project- an incubator farm that allows us to rent land & greenhouse space & all the equipment we need to in order to grow our beautiful flowers! After graduating from this three year program, we have found a new home for our farm on rented land in Essex, MA, where we will continue our flower growing journey.

We want everyone to have access to art & beauty & locally grown flowers- reach out now to join our CSA, book an event with us, or put in an order for yourself or a loved one!