My Urban Micro Flower Farm - Martel's Cut Flowers Est 2021

 What is Urban Micro Farming?  In my case it will be growing farm style, in my urban back yard. The area I am starting with is 1000 square feet for annuals plus some of my frontage for perennials. I am planning my first season of flowers to cut and sell. My husband has expressed an interest in bee keeping once he retires so I will have a bounty for these wonderful creatures to enjoy when that happens.

December 2020 the year of Covid 19, I was planning for spring. I think we were all hoping for a better year ahead at this point. My husband and I are planning to xeriscape the front yard in the spring of 2021. I began to research the best perennials and flowers to use in our south-west facing frontage. I love the sun, but without a tree, the yard here suffers. We planted a Magnolia tree our first year here (3 yrs ago) to replace my Magnolia left behind when we moved. The poor thing has hardly grown. 

My Mother's day magnolia in Cambridge

As I hunkered down with my lemon, ginger and honey tea laptop se to Pinterest I began my journey down the rabbit hole as I do, and started looking at flowers. I am not sure how I got there but I clicked on Urban flower farms and that was it!

 I have since purchased books and researched everyday. How did I not know this was a thing? I need this to be my life. Hard work but Joyful work.

Fast forward February 2021 and I am waiting for my first order of seeds, corms and bulbs to trial for the coming summer. 

Let's keep in touch.🌻 Catherine Martel