We were lucky to catch up with Amy Elizabeth Davis recently and have shared our conversation below.

Hi Amy Elizabeth , thanks for joining us today. Can you open up about a risk you’ve taken – what it was like taking that risk, why you took the risk and how it turned out?

Recently, I left teaching after a 25-year career to go full-time into cut flower farming. The flower farm was established in 2023, but I was still holding on to teaching as my main source of income. As my flower business began to grow, so did a longing to be gardening and farming every day.

I found myself at a crossroads and had to ask myself some difficult questions, like can I walk away from the only career I have ever known and am good at, to start doing something else at my age? Well, after a full year of contemplating and planning, I decided that yes, I was going to resign from teaching and go full time into flower farming.

This year, everything had to be kicked up a notch, or two. I built a pavilion and farm shop area where I can sell products and also teach workshops that incorporate my two passions: farming and art.

Amy Elizabeth , before we move on to more of these sorts of questions, can you take some time to bring our readers up to speed on you and what you do?

Being a flower farmer is a very creative field to be in. Flower farmers take a seed, we plant it, it grows, and we cut it to create beautiful flower arrangements to sell to the community. There is a lot of hard work between step #1 and the final bouquet, but the entire process is creative.

My inspiration is nature itself. I love to watch things grow. The colors, the unfurling of the leaves, the stages of the life of the plant and even the death of one. It may sound strange, but all of it is a daily reminder of the beauty of life.

As an artist and farmer, I tend to paint what I see every day. My art is strongly connected to my farm life. I also like to share that with the community by offering agritourism events where people can come to the farm and participate in a workshop where they will experience the flowers and also create art inspired by what they see and feel.

My mission as a farmer is to provide organically grown flowers to the community and to keep healthy bees on my property. As an artist who lives and works on a farm, I want to share my secrets with the community and offer a space where they can unwind, relax, and get reconnected through nature and art. I want the focus of the farm to be wellness through creativity and nature.

For you, what’s the most rewarding aspect of being a creative?

The most rewarding aspect of being an artist or creative for me is inspiring other people, whether that be through what I have created or what they create while they are visiting my farm.

As I see it, being a creative person at the core is a lifestyle. A way of seeing things that not everyone else may see. I think that in itself is a reward.

Is there mission driving your creative journey?

I think the goal of this journey for me is to live differently. To depend less on others for work and a career, and to be as independent on my farm and in my work as I possibly can be.

I think it is so important to have goals and to set a few each day. So my goal is constantly evolving, but overall, I would have to say that my greatest goal is to work for myself, earn my way, live off my land, share what I have learned with others, and prosper.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://www.meadowlaneflowerfarm.org
• Instagram: @meadowlaneflowerfarm
• Facebook: meadowlaneflowerz

Image Credits

Amy Elizabeth Davis