It’s another weekend of love for our farm team! Catherine is getting married and we are SO excited to celebrate with her. If you listen closely on Saturday afternoon, you might even hear those wedding bells ringing and the cackling laughter of the Trifecta. We are in party mode and overcome with the urge to decorate everything that doesn’t move! I doubt this will end when the wedding ends, and why should it?

Fall is actually my favorite time of year to decorate and I kick it all off with the spooky season! I’ve already scared Mom with my full-sized ghosts and skeletons. My husband was asking what the heck I was doing with tomato cages, the infamous laundry basket of socks, and a bag of balloons - he never expected the adorable, lifesized ghosts that I had planned. They’re adorable, but terrifying if you’re not expecting a human-sized sheet stalking you in the corner. 

Though I’m trying to relish in each decorating phase of fall, I am dying to break out my John Derian Thanksgiving turkey, oh, and just wait until you see what I have planned for Christmas. Christmas. It fills me with joy to seasonally change out my home and change up my space. Honestly, it’s what led us to start selling Christmas wreaths. 

After years of having the ones I made stolen off my front door by my family, we decided to try our hand at making wreaths and selling them during the holiday season. Those first few years of figuring out how to get the right greens, process them efficiently, create something beautiful, and then ship with cold, cut-up fingers was tough, but the joy it brought was priceless. I’ll never forget the first year when Steph and I foraged whole cedar trees from the side of the road. This most certainly was not legal, but karma quickly caught up with us when we got to making wreaths with cedar greens. Those buggers are prickly.

Every year, we got a little better. The greens were better, the process was better, and the end result was always more, happier people. Now we have it pretty well streamlined, my creations stay on the front door, and I can enjoy the holiday tingle these greens bring. 

While you may not be quite ready to think about where you’ll put this year’s handcrafted seasonal beauty, I have a favor to ask. Can y’all order those Christmas wreaths for your front door or your neighborhood gifts now? Mom is in charge of ordering greens and she is driving me and Steph crazy with her speculations. We totally have an equation for this, but this year we’ve already sold lots of wreaths and we’re just trying to make sure she doesn’t go too crazy with the order. That girl’s got big dreams, but the margins on our wreaths are small, and ordering too much or too little is risky.  

Think about it this way, ordering now lets you check off a holiday to-do early and give these farmers the best timeline to crank up Mariah Carey and give this year’s wreaths an extra dose of seasonal cheer! Our holiday greens are available for shipping nationwide starting at the end of November so you can Tupperware the turkey and deck the halls at the same time. 

And, if you’re a business owner or the lucky one who gets to decide what to send to clients and team members this year, be sure to talk to Mom! She has exclusive packages ready to roll for bulk orders. I’m gonna say thank you all for ordering early by spinning like a wreath on Catherine’s dance floor at the wedding this weekend! Tis the season to party hard!