June Farm has known a few different iterations since it’s circus heyday. It’s been a respite for circus animals, a tree farm, a weekend home, a full-time family home, and a working farm. For the past few years, my family and I have been working with the land to gain a better sense of what it wants to be. We have grown peonies and other cut flowers, white sweet corn, vegetables and lavender. We have grown herbs and botanicals for essential oils and skincare. We have harvested the mature white pine and spruce trees and pinecones for Christmas wreaths and garlands. We have fished in the pond and used the fallen trees for firewood and art. We have hosted wellness retreats and small media events. Each of these small ventures has been fulfilling and successful, but not one in particular has risen to the top in a way that helps us figure out June Farm’s ongoing commercial identity.

With all of that said, I would be remiss if I didn’t acknowledge what has risen to the top. As it is the most significant piece of this puzzle. We, and all of our visitors, have felt it and verbalized it - there is an underlying spirit on this land that has a very loud and palpable vibration. You can feel it in your chest and your gut as you walk the grounds. It’s passionate, inspiring, artistic, and wild; it’s supportive, comforting and protective of this space. It commands respect and partnership, and when given respect and partnership, especially through artistic creation, it envelops you in a blanket of energetic confidence and heightens your focus and ambition. You feel like you can do anything.

So, where does this leave us? Are we peonies? Are we vegetables? Are we wellness retreats? Are we Christmas? After beating myself up almost daily trying to figure out where to focus and where to put my time and investment, I have finally come to a conclusion. June Farm is a spirit, a style, a way of life. It’s about nature, creation, artistry, partnership and mutual respect. And, most importantly, June Farm is our home. And what goes on at June Farm cannot be recreated anywhere else. It lives within us and the items we envision and create. You can feel it in a Christmas wreath, in a bunch of our flowers, in our unique floral designs, in the seedlings we plant and nurture in your gardens.