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Gatherings

Elm Farm is a working flower farm and event venue for small conferences, workshops, women’s gatherings, homeschool days, creative retreats, coffee conversations, family celebrations, and seasonal farm events.

The farmhouse is arranged so groups can move naturally between coffee, teaching, conversation, creating, porch breaks, and outdoor time. Some gatherings use only one room. Others use the whole main level, porch, and farm areas.

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The Perfect Fit for Elm Gatherings

Small Conferences + Planning Days
Use the conference room for round-table teaching, planning sessions, nonprofit meetings, homeschool parent gatherings, board-style conversations, and small group trainings.

Creative Workshops
Use the art room, coffee bar, tea room, and porch for paint-and-sip gatherings, floral classes, journaling circles, maker workshops, art nights, and friend-group creative time.

Women’s Gatherings + Retreat Mornings
Use the lounge, coffee bar, art room, porch, and farm walk for women’s circles, prayer mornings, self-care gatherings, quiet retreats, and coffee-and-conversation events.

Homeschool + Learning Days
Use the conference room, art room, porch, farm areas, and seasonal growing spaces for parent meetings, student workshops, nature days, farm lessons, and small educational gatherings.

Family + Seasonal Celebrations
Use the farmhouse, porch, tea room, kitchen, yard, and firepit area when conditions allow for birthdays, showers, family meals, graduation gatherings, holiday events, and simple seasonal celebrations.

Bridal Prep + Small Wedding Support
Use the lounge, porch, coffee bar, tea room, and photo areas for bridal prep mornings, small wedding-adjacent gatherings, portraits, brunches, showers, and quiet pre-ceremony space.

Elm is best suited for small, intentional gatherings rather than large banquet-style events. Room access, outdoor access, firepit use, and setup options depend on group size, season, staffing, weather, and farm readiness.

Gathering spaces at Elm

Conference + Planning Days
Round-table setups in the main gathering room support teaching, planning, nonprofit meetings, homeschool parent gatherings, board-style conversations, and small conferences.

Creative Workshops
The art room is prepared for painting, floral classes, journaling circles, maker workshops, and friend-group creative time.

Coffee + Conversation
Coffee and tea service in the kitchen helps every gathering feel received before the formal part of the event begins.

Women’s Gatherings + Retreat Mornings
Softer rooms support women’s circles, retreat breaks, prayer mornings, self-care gatherings, and quiet conversation.

Host Table + Refreshments
The dining room works as a support room for refreshments, catered food, desserts, workshop packets, tea service, speaker resources, or event materials.

Porch Breaks
The covered porch gives guests a place for coffee breaks, waiting, portraits, conversation, and a slower moment between sessions.

Farm Walk + Outdoor Time
Seasonal outdoor spaces allow gatherings to move from the farmhouse into the flower farm, lawn, firepit area, or simple farm walk when conditions allow.

Bridal Prep + Small Celebration Support
The lounge, porch, coffee kitchen, host room, and photo areas can support bridal prep mornings, showers, portraits, brunches, and small wedding-adjacent gatherings.

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Welcome to the Farm

Elm Farm in Marshfield, MO

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.

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Since the day I pulled into the drive at Elm, this Since the day I pulled into the drive at Elm, this property has had a special place in my heart. I know beyond a shadow of a doubt that God orchestrated a unique set of circumstances so that I could have this home for healing. 

And now it’s time for a new set of unique circumstances that I know God is orchestrating for our good and His glory. 

The Mitchell family will be leaving Elm at the end of November. We’ll miss it fiercely, but we see God working out a special ending to our time here. He has been so gracious these last eight years at Elm. It’s time for someone else to receive the blessing that is this beautiful property. 

I don’t have a lot of details to offer, as they are all still falling into place daily. But I stand on the forever fact that His will is always, always the best version of the story. 

So as we pack our belongings and say goodbye to our sweet little farm, I hope you join me over at @cherithmitchell to continue the adventure God started with the birth of our son, Teddy. A story of redemption and wholeness and taking back what the enemy stole.
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.
The irises really showed up this spring. I don’t t The irises really showed up this spring. I don’t think I was giving them the credit they deserve before. Dividing and transplanting them allllll this year.
In trying to explain some of Marshall’s neurologic In trying to explain some of Marshall’s neurological symptoms resulting from his fall, I told the doctor, “Marshall is basically a perfect husband.” I needed her to understand that if I’m saying something that sounds moderately normal about someone, it’s not normal for Marshall. 

It took the doctor a few appointments to understand what I was saying, but I think she gets it now. “You picked a good one,” she told me yesterday. 

I barely had a choice, though. Once you find perfection, it’s common sense to hold on tight.
My sister took photos while I was in labor. Lookin My sister took photos while I was in labor. Looking at them still makes me cry. Relief. Grief. The overwhelming emotion of knowing the hard thing I fought so hard for was achieved. 

It’s almost too much to look at. I still haven’t worn the cardigan I labored in. It used to be my favorite, now it hangs in the closet. 

There’s a lot I don’t remember about giving birth to Turtle. But there’s a lot I remember about laboring with Baby Bear. Foremost in my memory is my mother reading the Psalms to me. Her soothing voice. The strength embodied in the words. I knew, even if I couldn’t barely think straight, that I needed Scripture. 

It kept me sane as I begged my sister to stop making me try to turn the baby from his breech position. It grounded me as I struggled to maintain control during the relentless back labor. It washed over me as I relinquished control and came undone. 

It pieced me back together as she handed me my first born son. The Word does not return void. 

I can’t wear my favorite cardigan, but the sight of my Bible on the nightstand keeps me whole as I am remade the mother of two.
Turtle has been waiting to “be the checkout girl” Turtle has been waiting to “be the checkout girl” all winter. She arranged the stickers herself.
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.
We converted the first garden we grew in back in 2 We converted the first garden we grew in back in 2018 into what @whitney_stevens_ calls a Granny Garden, with long, straight rows of happy greens over and over again. I may hate it, but it’s working for us right now in a season where weeding precision is difficult to achieve. I’ll hoe in between each row the way @ruthannzimm does, and perhaps I’ll find a new way to grow some veggies.
That time we watched the eclipse on the slopes sur That time we watched the eclipse on the slopes surrounded by new friends and I thought maybe, juuuust maybe, this really could work.
Tulip season 2024 is officially over. I’ve pulled Tulip season 2024 is officially over. I’ve pulled all that I can from my 5 tulip boxes that we planted last fall. Now we hit order on next year’s harvest and wait for the irises to bloom.
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The irises really showed up this spring. I don’t t The irises really showed up this spring. I don’t think I was giving them the credit they deserve before. Dividing and transplanting them allllll this year.
That time we watched the eclipse on the slopes sur That time we watched the eclipse on the slopes surrounded by new friends and I thought maybe, juuuust maybe, this really could work.
These daffodils are in the gooseneck stage, but Tu These daffodils are in the gooseneck stage, but Turtle calls them “swan neck” and I think that’s even better. She is learning which ones will store best in the fridge so they can open up in a bouquet instead of turning to mush. And that’s a nifty thing for a little girl to know.
Turtle’s Valentine’s Day tea party was one of our Turtle’s Valentine’s Day tea party was one of our best gatherings to date. Because of it we met new friends, added a cream cheese spread to our list of favorites, and have incorporated a 3 o’clock tea time into our life multiple days a week. 

My favorite part? I did the dishes the next day. Progress toward your big goals is a beautiful thing. 

Swipe to the end to see the cutest party guest ever.
Turtle has been waiting to “be the checkout girl” Turtle has been waiting to “be the checkout girl” all winter. She arranged the stickers herself.
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).

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