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Family owned & farmed in Marshfield, MO

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About Elm Farm

Elm Farm is an operational flower farm and gathering place for hosting small groups, photo sessions, workshops, learning days, and simple seasonal events.

With 16 acres & too many chickens, Elm is growing into a stewarded place of hospitality, beauty, food, flowers, and community.

A Farm Being Restored

Elm is not only just one thing. Some areas are growing. Some are resting. Some are being rebuilt. Some are being prepared so guests can gather, walk, learn, photograph, celebrate, and enjoy the farm while the property continues to grow.

Our primary goal is functional beauty. We grow flowers amongst the areas we offer to the public: clean gathering areas, protected growing spaces, and a farm that feels cared for because it is being cared for.

Our Family’s Part

We first came to Elm as a family with a desire to grow food, flowers, and a more rooted life. Over the years, Elm has held vegetable gardens, flower rows, tulips, garlic, chickens, children, friends, experiments, failures, and more abundance than we knew how to manage alone.

The history Elm holds is personal to us, but the farm is no longer only about what our family can grow or host by ourselves. Elm is now being shaped into a place with a purpose that can continue even when we are not the only people holding the work.

A Stewarded Farm

Our family still carries the vision and responsibility for the farm’s purpose, but now we have a team of people who love the farm as much as we do. The on-site steward will be tending the dirt, preparing guest areas, and making sure the chickens don’t get in to the compost.

Whether you come for a photo session, a workshop, a homeschool gathering, a garden table, or a quiet walk through the flowers, our desire is for you to arrive at a place that feels held, purposeful, and alive.

What Elm Offers

Elm is being prepared for small gatherings, learning days, workshops, photo sessions, family celebrations, flower-farm visits, and simple seasonal events. The farm offers open lawn, canopy trees, beautiful buildings, working garden areas, seasonal flowers, shaded places to sit, and the kind of countryside setting that lets people slow down without needing a formal event hall.

Elm has always wanted to be the kind of flower farm that can receive people beautifully and frequently.

Provision at Elm Farm

At Elm, provision may look like flowers, garlic, herbs, eggs, learning days, walking paths, farm tables, workshops, beauty, food, or a peaceful place for a group to gather. The question is not only what the farm can grow, but what it can prepare, sustain, and make receivable.

Elm Farm is still becoming. We are restoring the land, building the flower farm, preparing spaces for guests, and learning how to let this place serve more people without losing what made it worth loving in the first place.

He has shown you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?

Micah 6:8
We sold every single stem we could pull out of the We sold every single stem we could pull out of the field the week leading up to Easter. We harvested multiple times a day, trying to coax color out of the little green buds that refused to budge.

Easter lands on a different day each year, which means we have to guess which varieties will open around the same time as we’re celebrating any given year. But spring weather that triggers blooming tulips can waffle as much as 3 weeks in both directions. So your best bet is to grow some of everything and hope something is blooming at the right time. Sometimes it all blooms before Easter and all you have is what fit in the cooler and sometimes it all comes ready the week after and there’s nothing you can do about it.

Tulips are a weird, terrifying, and expensive gamble. But goodness, they’re worth every stressful peek under the netting (because the deer also love tulips as much as we do).
Planting week has landed on my birthday since the Planting week has landed on my birthday since the first year we lived here and Marshall asked me how he could make my birthday special for me. I replied that I wanted to garden, so we did. And we haven’t stopped since. 

But this year, we didn’t do much planting. We harvested some flowers and enjoyed picnics and walked around viewing our different growing areas. We talked about perennials and dreamt up new gardens and slowly, gently, peacefully came to terms with the fact that we needed to press pause on the CSA for a season. 

I’ve never loved doing anything as much as I love growing green things. Except being a wife and mother.

A few days after Marshall’s fall down some steps, he started walking funny. A few days later, he was forgetful and slow to answer questions. It’s been almost a month since he fell, and he’s still substituting the wrong words in his sentences, still wincing when he bends over, still pausing before walking with the baby. He’s working with an incredible doctor and I see so many wonderful things ahead for him. But right now, caring for my family has to eclipse my efforts in keeping green things alive. Perhaps someone else could do both, but that’s okay. My garden will be there waiting for me, just as it always has. 

We’ll still grow the things, we just won’t do it at the pace we were expecting of ourselves before. We’ll still harvest and preserve and share our abundance. We just won’t do it with a pre-determined timeframe. We’ll still spend our summer outside amongst the green things. We’ll just do it more slowly, more gently, and with more naps.
Janice had irises all over this place when we move Janice had irises all over this place when we moved in, mostly in the shade. We’ve slowly rehomed them to full sun garden beds and as they’ve come into their own, I’ve gained a new appreciation for a plant that literally cannot be killed. We added several chunks to the slopes and I have a feeling these beds will soon become my new favorite growing spots on the property.
Marshall’s the one who gets things done around her Marshall’s the one who gets things done around here but I’m still the one who ties the bowline.
Just wait til I have up the swinging chairs. Just wait til I have up the swinging chairs.
First full bed harvest from the bee balm, won’t be First full bed harvest from the bee balm, won’t be the last.

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Stewardship: the responsible overseeing and protection of something considered worth caring for and preserving.

We invite you to join us as we restore order to the land God has given us.

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