The Farm

Hi! We're Kelci and Chris. We met in 2015 in New Orleans and bonded over a shared love of plants. In New Orleans, Chris had a homestead with a vegetable garden, fruit trees, and a flock of chickens, ducks, and geese. Kelci worked at an urban farm, helped run a greenhouse for a landscaping company, and grew a flower garden. Looking to escape city life, we decided to move to Chris's hometown of Shelter Island. We wanted to live closer to nature and in a tight-knit community. We both took restaurant jobs and started our first shared garden together. The garden was great! The service industry grind was not. Kelci dreamed of growing beautiful blooms. Chris dreamed of not waiting tables.

So what did we do? We started a farm! Neither one of us grew up farming, but we both knew we wanted to play with plants. We wanted to eat good food and experience the beauty of flowers. We took over Jay and Marge Card's decades-old farm at Card's Cabins on Shelter Island. We cleared out the overgrown field in the fall of 2017 and began sowing vegetable and flower seeds the following spring. We reopened the farm stand on the property and we started Shelter Island's first Flower CSA! In 2020, we expanded to design, build, and maintain home flower and vegetable gardens and we also do floral design for weddings and events.