Ivey Acres Farm

05/12/2023

🚨We are SOLD OUT for 2023!!! Thank you to everyone for your support!!! Happy Holidays!🚨

Josh is at it again! He has 15 new charcuterie boards up for grabs! Photos, measurements, and prices are attached.

These boards were milled and finished about six months ago right here on our farm (wood sourced from Marshall area.) They are cured and ready for all the cheese/ crackers/ meats/ fruits/ nuts/ and veggies of the season!

First come first served! Cash or Venmo. Pick up/ make a meet/ and shipping is also available!

Please indicate in the comments the specific board you would like us to reserve for you!

Happy Holidays! 🔪 🧀 🥕 🫒 🥖 🥩

07/09/2023

💐Hello to our flower loving friends! This year has been a quiet one on the farm… between our busy schedules and a lot of farm/ growing failures (thrips/ voles/ bad seed and bulbs 🤦🏻‍♀️), we have not been actively sharing flowers with all of you this 2023 growing season.

As we start prepping our flower beds for winter, we are hopeful for a bountiful 2024 growing season!💐

Josh still has some gorgeous charcuterie boards (Black Walnut and Cherry) available! We will be listing those individually soon for the Fall season!

Hope to see you next Spring for Tulips 🌷 and daffodils!

20/04/2023

Things are happening fast on the farm… Sadly, our tulips are not faring well... I believe it’s a combo of the quality of the bulbs I purchased last Fall, and the unusual weather we’ve had recently…

I have many bulbs that have not come up at all, OR I’ve had groups of tulips “blow” open quickly with the recent hot weather (from barely formed flower head to fully open and unusable in a matter of hours)

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With all that being said, I have been able to salvage some flowers to store in the refrigerator cooler temporarily in order to make a limited number of bouquets 💐.

I will take an inventory of what I have and let everyone know soon!

Thank you! 💐

19/03/2023

My tulips and daffodils are trying to wake up! !

Crossing my fingers for Mothers Day Bouquets! 👏🏼 💐 😀

14/12/2022

To our awesome charcuterie board buyers!!!

The Ivey house was hit hard with Influenza A last week and over the weekend… two of us are still down. I will hopefully be able to make some deliveries to local friends on Thursday or Friday this week if I keep improving.

For those who requested shipping quotes, I’m working on those too. I need to package them up and figure out shipping. I will let you know very soon!

Thanks everyone for your patience, understanding, and support! ❤️🙏

-Candace

P.S. I checked the CDC’s website and they said the virus won’t survive longer than nine hours on hard non-porous surfaces (hard handles) and not more than four hours on soft or porous surfaces (leather handles and wood boards)

So we should be A-OK! 👍🏼😉

10/12/2022

👏🏼👏🏼❤️Thank you thank you THANK YOU!👏🏼👏🏼❤️

We have officially SOLD OUT of this batch of charcuterie boards! You all have been amazingly generous and supportive! We sooooo appreciate it!

We are creating a wish/ wait list for those of you who are interested!

He plans to mill up some additional boards in the coming weeks, so if you have a wish for a board, let us know!

I will be contacting those of you who have reserved our current boards to figure out delivery/ pick up/ or shipping, so stay tuned!

Happy Holidays from Santa’s Elf and I!

09/12/2022

******SOLD OUT!!!!!SOLD OUT!!!******

WOW!!! You all have been so wonderful and generous! We have almost sold-out of our boards!

The ones listed below are what we have left as of right now.

My Christmas Elf (Josh) will be busily working on more boards this weekend so hopefully we’ll have more to offer soon!

08/12/2022

******SOLD OUT!!!!!SOLD OUT!!!******

"Idle hands are the devils workshop" as they say!

Ivey Acres has something new to share with everyone! Since we have a hard time sitting still while the flowers are all tucked away for the winter, Josh (my husband) has decided to dabble in wood working! He has created some beautiful debarked live edge charcuterie boards that are up for grabs just in time for the Holidays!

We have the following types of wood: Black Walnut, Red Oak, Cherry, Osage Orange, and Hickory. All of the wood was harvested here in Marshall or very close by, milled, dried, and finished on our property. We have two handle styles: Black Metal Pull, or reclaimed leather horse reins with genuine copper nails.

Each board is unique in wood grain, and all are debarked live edge. We have planed, sanded, and treated each board with a food grade mineral oil and natural wax to bring out the wood grains true beauty, and they are stunning!

Cracks, knots, worm holes, irregular grain and shape, all add to the character and charm of these boards!

I will list each board with a description and number associated with it. If you are interested and would like to purchase a board from us, please DM or text me with the number of the board!

We accept cash, Venmo, or Paypal!
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We are willing to deliver to the Marshall area and along the I-69 corridor to Lansing. You are also welcome to pick up. Shipping (extra) is available for those who are far away!

Please let us know if you have any questions! Thank you in advance for your support! Happy Holidays!

- Candace & Josh Ivey

29/08/2022

We are trialing a few bouquets at Serendipity & The Brew this week! Stop in for a delicious iced caramel macchiato and a bouquet of gorgeous Summer/ Fall blooms!

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27/08/2022

🌻 🌻🌻Pop-Up Sale!!!🌻🌻🌻

Today Saturday 8/27/2022 5pm-8pm!!!

19766 16 Mile Rd
Marshall

We have buckets and buckets of gorgeous sunflowers and a few of the first dahlias of the season!

Come by this evening to make your own bouquet!

Price per stem:

Sunflowers 🌻 and Dahlias 🌺

$2 per stem
3 stems for $5

Filler flowers/ Foliage

$1 per stem!

Cash or Venmo only

12/08/2022

12/08/2022

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What an absolutely gorgeous morning! I am out in the garden harvesting 🌻!

I will have enough for five pre-made bouquets to start! They are made up of Procut Orange Sunflowers, Amaranth (Hot Biscuits and Red) Sunfill Green sunflowers (lime green flower heads unopened) and some foliage/ filler items like Oregano and such!

$18 porch pickup (message for address)
$20 w/ delivery in Marshall 😊

All profits go toward Whitney’s Competitive dance habit! 💃

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11/07/2022

Lots and lots of growth 🌱 happening right now! It’s a learning summer for me (that’s my way of saying I need to learn how to start seeds at the proper times!)

The gap between Tulips and summer flowers seems immense! But soon we will have flowers a bounty! 💐 🌸 🌺 🌻

We have narrowed our focus this summer to just a few blooms in order to actually have something to share before winter! Hahah!

On the menu:

Procut Sunflowers 🌻 (multiple single stem varieties!)

Dahlias 🌺 (dinner plate and ball varieties)

Amaranth (red dye and hot buscuit gold!)

Gomphrena (small globe)

Zinnias (queen lime orange, red, pink… etc)

And…

Gladiolus!!! (Mixed colors! I can’t wait!!!)

Enjoy this GORGEOUS Michigan Summer Monday ❤️

PS. There is a ballerina dancing in one of the pictures… can you spot her?! 🩰 💃

06/06/2022

Dreaming of peonies?! We are too!… ❤️ aren’t they just delightful?!

Ivey Acres is on the hunt for the perfect peonies to add to our farm! There is no instant gratification with these gorgeous girls! We’re planning for the future (2-3 years out 😳😬) so send us your favorites! Peonies take that long when planted bare root to become the big beautiful blooming bushes you see in the Spring!

What are your favorites?! Double bloom? Single bloom? Pinks, whites, mauves, yellows?!

*note: these are not our peonies… these photos were taken from different places around Marshall (we’re soooo jealous!)

30/05/2022

It’s been a busy weekend here at Ivey Acres!

We’ve built seven raised beds so far (five new this weekend!) with more to come! I am using the “no till” method to plant since we currently do not have a rototiller! (Also I’ve read a lot about No-till and the benefits of not damaging the soil structure. It’s very interesting!)

This is a low cost method because the lumber was given to me, the cardboard was free from friends and some that I just had packed away, and the soil is free compost made of leaf mold from the local refuse center! So win win WIN!!!

The beds are not perfect, they don’t match, and they are misshapen, but that doesn’t matter to a plant! If you build it, nourish it, and water it, it will GROW! 👏🏼👏🏼 🌱

I’m so excited! I am working on a diagram so I can plan out where everything is going to go! Eeeeek! I love this so much!

Special thanks to my husband who patiently took instruction from me on where, how, and what to build! ❤️

20/05/2022

The first (of many I’m sure) hard lessons learned as a new flower farm owner….

….Don’t go on a 10 day vacation in late Spring, or a lot of your tulips will bloom when you’re gone!!! Yikes 😳🤦🏻‍♀️🤷🏻‍♀️

(Thank you to my MIL Margaret for harvesting what she could for me while I was gone! 😊💐❤️)



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19/05/2022

🎓👨‍🎓👩‍🎓Attention Marshall area friends!🎓👩‍🎓👨‍🎓

(Ok, getting ahead of myself! Graduation is next week May 27th!) I have a bunch I will hold back for that weekend but I have some ready for this weekend!

How about Class Night? May 21?!
Baccalaureate May 25th?!

I will have a limited number of bouquets of the last Tulips of the season available tonight and tomorrow (or next week too) if anyone is interested.

10 stem farmers choice wrapped bouquet $12
10 stem farmers choice w/vase $15

Local delivery available for $2 extra, or pick up from my house (near Turkeyville.)

Message or text your order to me.

Venmo:
Or COD / PU 😊💸

06/05/2022

That’s it folks! Mothers Day 2022 sales are done! (I still have a few bouquets to deliver this morning 😉)

Thank you all so much for your support of Whitney and I on this new flower-filled adventure! 💐🌷

There will be more Pop-Up flower sales in the next few weeks! Stay tuned!

And, if you purchased or received a bouquet of tulips or daffs, please post a picture of them opened up in all their glory! I’d love to see how our arrangements turned out! 😊💐❤️

05/05/2022

I’m dabbling with tossing up some informational videos about our farm!

Check this out!

(One of these days I might buy a tripod setup so I can actually be on camera! 😆🤷🏻‍♀️😊)



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05/05/2022

Here’s a few of our tulip and daffodil arrangements that went out for delivery this evening! My sweet assistant, designed all of these bouquets herself! I’m a pretty proud momma! ❤️💐

03/05/2022

Who wants Daffodils!!! I have enough for five (5) 12 stem (short) bouquets up for grabs! These aren’t your run-of-the-mill plain Jane daffs! These are fancy daffs!

Some gorgeous frilly trumpets, replete double blooms (ruffly coral colored centers!)

💐Mother’s Day Special 💐

$10 w/ mason jar!

(No wrapped bouquets offered with daffs.. the stems are too short!)

Daffs have a sweet scent… some love it, some don’t!

Message or text me if you’d like a bouquet! (Same delivery applies, Marshall area only! Wednesday or Thursday this week!)

03/05/2022

💐💐💐Temporarily SOLD OUT!💐💐💐
I am working on another harvest. Hopefully this evening! I will reopen if I have enough to make up some more of these!

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Here is what our 💐Mothers Day Special💐 10 stem tulip bouquet w/ mason jar will look like (colors and tulip styles will vary!)

03/05/2022

This farm is in the Byron Center area. She has the most adorable, quaint U-Pick Cut flower farm! They were a large part of my inspiration to start my own farm! (Not a U-Pick… YET! 😍)

Check out what she’s done here with her tulips, and how Mother Nature tosses curveballs at farmers!

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Welp. Looks like most of my Tulips will not be ready in time for Mother's Day. This is one of the realities of working with nature. The flowers bloom according to Mother Nature's schedule, not our arbitrary calendars.

(I think there could be a whole discussion here about human kind's desperate and foolish attempts to control nature, but I digress 😉)

April of 2022 in Michigan tied for the most cloudy April on record. Nearly half of the days started with temperatures at or below 32°F. It also rained (or snowed 🥶)20 out of the 30 days.

So yeah... Tulips grow slow when it's cold and cloudy.

BUT! Besides the late blooming, I would say my Tulip experiment has been a wild success!

In the fall, we constructed a Tulip "cage" to protect the bulbs from voles.

In the past, I've lost up to 98% of my bulbs to voles. But this year, they didn't get a single one! 🙌I could see vole tunnels all around the Tulip cage but they couldn't get in.

This bed is about 3x50 feet and I have 4,300 Tulips growing in here.

A few of them are ready but in about a week, I bet most of them will be ready. All it takes is a warm sunny day. They grow so fast on a sunny day, I have to harvest every 2-3 hours to catch them at the right stage (gotta get them right before they open!).

Later this year, I'll be sure to write up a full report 📝 on my experiment and share it with you. In the meantime, I'm taking lots of notes and photos to document every step of the process!

03/05/2022

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****WOWSERS!!! Thank you everyone sooo much for your support and kind words!!! As of right now, and with the harvested stock I have, I have SOLD OUT!!!!

But don’t fret! I’m heading out to the field now to see what is ready and may update or re-open sales based on availability!!! Stay tuned!!!

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Marshall area friends... I've been keeping a secret from most of you since last Fall 😬🤭.. want to know what it is?!?! It's super fun!

Whitney and I have started a CUT FLOWER FARM!!! We have created Ivey Acres, LLC and will be selling cut flowers Spring through Fall this year! I am applying for a booth at our Marshall Farmers Market (hopefully we'll get a booth in a few weeks!) but in the meantime.... I have a limited number of Tulips that will be ready to go this week before Mothers Day!

If you are interested in supporting a local farmer-florist just starting out, trying to earn some extra cash (to support her daughters dancing habit) here's your chance!

We will be offering a limited number (10 right now, maybe more if they are ready) of Tulip bouquets for Mothers Day!

Here are the options:

10 stems (farmers choice) wrapped bouquet (no vase)- $12
10 stems (farmers choice) w/ quart mason jar- $15

I will offer delivery FREE (this week only) on Wednesday evening (May 4th) and Thursday evening (May 5th) in the Marshall area.

Heres how to order:

Message me or Text me (if you have my number.. 😀) with your choice of wrapped bouquet for $12 or $15 for bouquet with mason jar.

I will accept cash on delivery, or Venmo:

Note: When you receive your bouquet, your tulips will still be mostly closed. This is OK! This means you (or whomever you gift them to) will be able to see the opening process and all the beautiful fresh colors for Mothers Day!

More fun flowers to come! Please like our business page. We will be adding more content as the Spring progresses!

We are so excited for this new adventure! And yes, I'm still doing all my other jobs simultaneously! I am crazy, I know this! hahah

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If you have any questions, please let me know!