our farm

Josh and Carmen Becker’s small cut flower farm was born out of a little dream to sell a few flowers along with some produce at a farmers market. “Just some zinnias and maybe some cosmos,” she thought to herself. But her naivety was soon apparent when she visited another flower farm in the area and realized quite quickly there were far too many delightful flowers to limit herself to cosmos and zinnias. This flower farmer friend recommended a book or two to study. This resulted in a flurry of seed ordering and bed planning. It quickly became apparent that selling flowers would be plenty of work without adding vegetables to the mix. The big question on what to name this small side business was a main topic over suppers and other spare time. One day while driving and having plenty of time to dream + plan, these two humans were tossing names at each other trying to find one that “fit”.  They were searching for a name that was bigger then flower farming – that could cover a wide variety of options. They needed something that could give them room to change their business plan without changing the name. He offered the name a bit of earth. The idea being that they felt God had blessed them and the earth with the ability to grow beautiful  and beneficial plants. When you are given one of their flowers, it’s like you are given a piece of God’s creation, the earth. It struck a chord with both of them. It seemed to represent their values of being good stewards of the earth and using organic and sustainable growing practices. And that was the birth of a bit of earth, a small local cut flower farm. They feel blessed to be able to offer flowers to help spread happiness in this small part of the world.

 The area of their large yard that is in cut flower production is around 7,800 sq ft – less then 1/4 acre.  These flowers are grown in 3ft. wide beds of varying lengths.  They use flower netting to help support the flowers and keep them from blowing over. Drip irrigation gives the roots the water they need. Due to the fact that they have no green houses or hoop houses, these blooms are at the mercy of Mother Nature and seasonally grown.