Two Fools Farm

04/02/2025

With more clouds ☁️ & rain ☔️ in the forecast, this girl just needed something bright and breezy! I wish smell-a-vision were a thing so I could share the amazing scent of the apricot blossoms with you.

We don’t have cut flowers yet. This is just a collection from the yard. The pretty flowers will be coming soon! 💐

04/01/2025

Check out these mini greenhouses! Aren’t they adorable? 😍 Humidity domes come off seedlings once around 50% of the seeds germinate, and I’ve noticed germination often slows down at that point. I used these condiment cups when dealing with pest pressure among seedlings and decided to try them as individual humidity domes. Turns out they work great! 🌱🌱

03/31/2025

Monday Fun-Day! 😀 I love routines and the best part of Monday's routine is seed starting. 🌱 Each seed holds so much promise and, given the right conditions, will grow into full-sized plants producing beautiful flowers and greenery.
Today's seeds are basil, strawflowers, zinnia's, and sunflowers. Each gets placed in the appropriately sized soil block and covered with vermiculite or soil in the depth needed. Then they are topped with cinnamon, covered, and given the perfect amount of heat and light needed for germination.
These particular seeds will show up in bouquets in early June (sunflowers), mid-June (zinnias), mid-July (basil), or August (strawflowers).

03/29/2025

Farming happens even in 29 mph winds. 💨 Larry put in irrigation 💦 and we did some transplanting 🌱. Good day! ☀️

03/28/2025

And, so it begins. We have pots of seedlings and soil all over the house: in the grow room, our bedroom, the kitchen windowsill, the office. I even tried to squeeze one onto the register vent under Larry’s desk, but the flat was too big to fit between the desks legs. 🤣
Soon flowers 🌻 will be everywhere! 😀 This picture is from last summer when we had flowers in the cooler, kitchen, bathtub, hearth, even a closet as we met their individual needs for relaxing before being made into long lasting bouquets. It may look chaotic and messy to the outsider, bu the results are so worth it! 💐💐💐

03/28/2025

It is hard to believe Mother’s Day is only 6 weeks away! Plan now to have a gorgeous spring bouquet 💐 delivered 🚗 to the special wife and mothers in your life! Watch in two weeks for details on how to order.

03/26/2025

What do you think, was last night our last hard freeze? Our area can experience hard freezes, which are not the same as frost, through next week, yet my gut says tonight might be it. 🤞

03/25/2025

Oh, frabjous day, the soil was finally 55º this morning 🎉! With warmer weather predicted the next several days we should be able to amend soil & transplant the first sunflower seedlings 🌱 this weekend 😀 which means we will have beauties like these available for you in just a few short weeks.

03/21/2025

I’m Lisanne, the head ‘fool’ here at Two Fools Farm, a second year flower farm located just outside London, Ohio. Our mission is to farm using processes that improve the land while turning out a product that enriches the lives of our customer’s. Every flower purchased from us has been hand-grown and lovingly harvested and arranged. It is also completely free of pesticides, herbicides, or other chemicals, making them safe to smell ~ strikingly different than flowers purchased at the store or florist!

03/21/2025

In a world that expects perfectionism and as a recovering perfectionist I need to repeat this to myself often! Growing flowers will never go perfectly: weather, pests, my own missed timings, etc. prove that daily, but may my failures always help me to grow.

If you've been following my journey, you know I'm obsessed with FAILURE.
Weird, right? 🤷Especially in a world of carefully curated highlight reels where everyone's life looks picture-perfect.

But here's the truth—those perfect posts?
They're just split-second glimpses into real lives filled with struggles, doubts, pain and overwhelming feelings of inadequacy.

Do you feel these things too?
I see you. I hear you.
And please know: You are NOT alone.

NOBODY is immune from these feelings.
NOBODY is entitled to success all the time.
NOBODY has it all figured out (and if they tell you they do, they’re either lying or trying to sell you something😳).

Before starting my farm, I was a self-professed perfectionist.

Psst… "perfectionist" is just code for "someone afraid of looking inadequate, foolish, or unskilled"... which is ABSURD because those feelings describe exactly what it's like to be a beginner learning something new! We've all been there.

When I started farming, reality set in quickly —perfectionism would kill my business.

I needed to completely reframe “failure”.
Instead of avoiding it, I learned to EMBRACE failure as my greatest teacher.
Each failed crop, each failed experiment, became evidence of my courage and audacity to try something new.♥️

Here’s the secret to learning to love failure:
Remove the shame from failure.
Failure is neutral.
It's not a reflection of your worth—it's simply feedback on what to try differently next time.

I actually trained my brain to get excited when I fail, because failure is proof that I’m DOING something, instead of allowing fear to keep me small. 🙌

Too many people tiptoe through life, playing it safe because they fear looking foolish.

But I'd rather fail gloriously in pursuit of something meaningful than succeed at being “perfect”.
Perfect is boring and overrated, y'all. 😉

❓What dream could you pursue today if you weren't afraid to fail?
Drop it in the comments—I'd love to cheer you on as you take that brave first step! ✨

03/20/2025

Happy first day of SPRING!! 🍃😀🎉
Did you see sunrise 🌅 this morning? They have all been gorgeous lately, but today was the first time for us that the sun was rising on 💚 green💚 grass. It was breathtaking!

03/19/2025

So grateful ♥️ to have been gifted these paintings 🖌 of our flowers 🌻 from last fall. Aren’t they gorgeous 😍?

03/17/2025

It felt SO GOOD to start seeds OUTSIDE today! 🎉 These thalia dill seeds will be a beautiful greenery in our spring bouquets. 😀

03/14/2025

“What is your favorite flower?” someone recently asked. You might as well ask me to pick a favorite child! 🧒🧒🧒
I equally, like many flowers for different reasons. Whether it is exquisitely beautiful, smells wonderful, has a long vase life, tastes great, heals dry skin, moves congestion, or provides for pollinators I love them all!
🌷🌸🌻🌺🌼🌹
Maybe an easier question would have been what flower don’t you like? But, then again, maybe not! 🤣

03/12/2025

Remember last years flower stand? The bouquets 💐 were wonderful 😀, but I always felt like something was missing. So this year we are adding on! We have TONS of ideas for products ~ food, outdoor items, home decor, or crafts ~ the sky is the limit!
🥚🍯🍅🥦

Drop ideas for what you’d like to see below! And, if you have something to sell send me a DM, please!

03/11/2025

I’m so happy to see these first blooms of the season!
Please, tell me what is coming up in your garden.

03/10/2025

I’ve watched sunrise ☀️ from this kitchen almost everyday for 26 years and one thing I have learned is when the sun comes up directly above the faucet spring is near! ☔️🌷

Did you know the sun moves along the horizon with the changing seasons? I didn’t until until we came across it in a homeschool curriculum probably 20 years ago! We spent an entire year mapping the location of the sun each morning. It’s amazing how far north and south it swings; a giant pendulum ticking off the years as a clock ticks off the seconds. As we approach the spring equinox and the brief time the sun is directly east I would encourage you to make the time to enjoy the beauty of a sunrise or two! 🌅

03/07/2025

Hi there! If we haven’t met yet, I’m Lisanne, the face behind Two Fools Farm. I love growing just about everything from houseplants, herbs, and vegetables; to the flowers🌸 we share with you through our farm stand 🌻 and bouquet subscription 💐 program. I can’t wait to begin planting outside in just a couple weeks! Meantime, lots of seedlings 🌱 are growing inside, seeds are getting started weekly, and I am reminiscing over pictures like this one from last summer to remind myself that sunshine ☀️and warm weather will be here soon!