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 Southern Flora Farms is a family owned flower farm that provides our local community with naturally grown flowers at weekly farmers markets, grocery stores, and for weddings and events. With ecological stewardship at our core, we focus on the health of the soil, watersheds, and airways so that you have confidence in the products that you bring into your home. 
 
We do not use any chemical pesticides, herbicides, insecticides, or fertilizers. We feed our crops by providing an abundance of organic matter such as compost, straw, and worm castings. We amend our soil occasionally by adding minerals such as limestone, blood meal, bone meal, and chicken manure. 
We are in the process of converting the farm into a regenerative and sustainable ecosystem through the grazing of livestock and cultivation of crops. Stay tuned to see how we grow over the years!
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Find out what flowers we're harvesting by season!
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Check out our handmade wreaths using the materials grown on our farm. 
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I can still remember the first time that I saw a bouquet of locally grown flowers. I was in college working at a coffee shop in Boone, North Carolina, where a co-worker helped part-time at the local farmers market. She was coming in to work her shift after the market and brought a large, overflowing vase of the most incredible flowers and foliage I had ever seen. I was so intrigued by the diversity and naturalness of the bouquet that I could only imagine how wonderful the garden must be, and I wanted to be a part of it. 

The following summer I worked for the same farmer, helping tend to her vegetable and flower garden, and making bouquets on demand the market each Saturday. I learned as much as I could about flower varieties, their names, their seasonality, and how to create a hand wrapped bouquet. I still remember standing on the ridge over her gardens thinking to myself "I could do this, for a lifetime."

It wasn't shortly after my time working on the farm, I met my now husband Will. Will had his own experience working on farms throughout college. He got his degree in Sustainable Development, which paired nicely with my business degree as we set out to start a farm business of our own. Once we set our minds to it, the pieces started to fall in place. We had a farm lease opportunity become available to us inWill's hometown, and so our farm journey began. 

The first year we planted everything - vegetables and flowers alike. We dreamed of living slowly, canning vegetables and picking flowers and that we did, but it did not cover the cost of running a farm. After two years of trial and error, we decided to focus our efforts on mastering one production system, rather than two. Our third year we cut the vegetable garden down by 75%, growing just what our family needed, and filled our gardens with flowers.

​We specialize in the unique and heirloom flowers often found in antique or cottage gardens, the same varieties that enchanted me that day in the coffee shop.
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Now in our fourth year, you can find our flowers from March until November, at the Franklin Farmers Market each Saturday, at our wholesale locations throughout the greater Nashville area, or at weddings and events! 
 
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~In person at the Franklin Farmers Market
​(March - December 2022)
~Order through Etsy for our Seasonal Wreaths (Follow us on social media for updates on availability)
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Franklin Farmers Market, 9:00am-12:00pm
We will be posted up at the Franklin Farmer's Market every Saturday for the 2022 season (March-December) with our weekly harvest of fresh cut flowers. Join us with some of your favorite vendors of Franklin!

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Southern Flora Farms
287 Matlock Road, Manchester, TN 37355
Phone: 931-247-5786
Email: SouthernFloraTN@gmail.com
www.SouthernFloraFarms.com

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