Home Grown Iowa Greens

Even in the busiest, most stressful times, we wouldn't have it any other way! December came and went with the blink of an eye. Christmas...

For those of you not familiar with this epic Mary Chapin Carpenter jam, sometimes, we get to be both the winshield AND the bug in the...

We spend our childhoods being told that we can be anything we want to be, we just have to BELIEVE we can be it. We are told to chase our...

What fun would it be to take all of this time working our hinies off if I can't show you all what we have in store for you? Just look at...

And Thank goodness for planners, when my body decides to catch up with my brain I will need to go back and study up on everything we did...

Once these plants get going, they really get growing!! The last couple of weeks have been a whirlwind to say the least! We started our...

We all know the feeling.. we run around like crazy people just to hurry up and wait.. having a start up farm is sort of like that, except...

47 towers planted, 650 seeds starting and 200 seedlings almost ready to transplant... Now all we have to do is grow!!! 🌱 If only life...

and the happy dance I have been waiting for the day that we got to start moving our little baby plants into their big towers since the...

and you open yourself up to a little more magic On a very warm evening in July, after Nick got off work we drove to Lacona and put down...

As our little leafy dream becomes more and more a really big reality and the occasional chilling bite in the wind carries the promise of...

Two and a half months and several, very, late nights after bringing our storage container farm home, everything is finally coming...

It's almost always sunny, we have been so lucky having so many beautiful, hot, perfect days but I was really starting to let myself slip...

and Why It Means So Much To Us! In my experience, anything really special and good in life starts with one tiny little step, and then...

I don't think I can tell you the exact moment that we decided to take on this little venture of ours. It is something, that in one way or...

You would be amazed at how big an empty high cube storage container actually feels when you're inside of it.... That's really all I could...

I mean, it's not like we haven't been preparing for this moment but let me tell you, when you see that semi rolling down the highway and...

We have been busy finalizing seed selections, gathering nutrients, testing the PH of our water source, and trying to keep our excitement...

...Fantastic movie, if you have not seen it yet, please stop reading and go watch it immediately!! But for anyone who has... It's in the...

Maybe!! If that is the case, I would gladly risk it all to take this leap, creating Leafy Dreams, over and over again as long as I could...